Business & Money | Monday 11 July, 2016 5:54 am

Emirates NBD Saudi Arabia PMI™

The upturn in Saudi Arabia’s non-oil private sector was maintained at a steady rate in June, as highlighted by a further solid improvement in business conditions. Output and new orders both rose sharply, leading firms to raise their input buying at a marked pace. However, the respective rates ...

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Business & Money | Monday 11 July, 2016 5:51 am

AFS bags certificate for the latest version of PCI DSS (3.2)

Arab Financial Services (AFS), the leading provider of electronic payments and consumer finance outsourcing services, became the first Payment Processor in the Middle East to achieve the prestigious PCI DSS certification on its latest version release 3.2 "AFS is proud to be among a handful...

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Business & Money | Monday 11 July, 2016 5:28 am

95% of Middle East professionals think that networking and maintaining relationships has been important to their career success

Career success consists of a number of different components and insights from MENA professionals illustrate how closely connected these factors may be. But a few key elements prevail, as shown by a recent poll entitled “The Bayt.com Secrets of Career Success in the MENA” poll, conducted ...

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Business & Money | Monday 11 July, 2016 2:43 am

Abdullah Ashy Appointed Chairman of Ewaan Global Residential

During their latest meeting, the Ewaan Global Residential Board of Directors agreed to nominate Mr. Abdullah Bin Muhammad Ahmed Ashy as the company’s Chairman as of July 2016, as a successor to Engineer AneesMoemena who has been Chairman since 2013.   Ashy’s nomination comes...

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Business & Money | Sunday 10 July, 2016 3:09 pm

Mobily Holds Staff Eid Reception in Different Cities of the Kingdom

  Yesterday morning, Eithad Etisalat “Mobily” held Staff Eid reception in all main locations of the company on the first day of being back to work after Eid Al-Fitr holiday.  The Eid reception was held in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam in addition to Madinah, Tabuk in...

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Business & Money | Sunday 10 July, 2016 2:23 pm

KAEC Launches “Select Real Estate Services” Department

King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) has announced the establishment of its new “Select Real Estate Services” department, which specializes in providing resale and rental services for residential units and land already purchased by investors in KAEC.    “The new...

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Business & Money | Saturday 9 July, 2016 5:54 am

Brexit batters UK consumer confidence

British consumer confidence suffered one of its biggest drops in 21 years and the country's largest department store expressed concern over the pound's fall, in the strongest evidence to date of the challenges Britain's economy faces after the Brexit vote. The vote to leave the...

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Business & Money | Friday 8 July, 2016 6:16 am

Al-Falih presents KSA’s vision to achieve global targets

Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources Khalid Al-Falih took part in high-level discussions on climate change with environment and energy experts, ministers and senior officials from all over the world. These discussions took place during the Petersberg Climate Dialogue...

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Business & Money | Friday 8 July, 2016 6:13 am

‘1 million new retail sector jobs by 2020’

The Saudi retail sector has taken concrete steps to achieve one of the goals of Vision 2030, which is creating 1 million new jobs by 2020 and offering the youth more opportunities to work in commercial shops, vegetable markets, telecommunication shops, and several other areas in the coming...

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Business & Money | Wednesday 6 July, 2016 4:50 am

Fira de Barcelona wins the 2016 UFI Education Award

UFI, The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, has named Fira de Barcelona as winner of its prestigious UFI Education Award.   Three finalists’ projects were carefully examined by the UFI Education Committee during their meeting on 7 June in Cologne. The Committee was...

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