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The attraction of Dubai is advertised worldwide: sea, sun
and shopping.
But for entrepreneurs, the daily business reality is different.
Dubai has everything to offer and is highly competitive. In order to
succeed in this aggressive market, it is essential to built up
outstanding advantages.
This month we are exploring two ways of improving our services to
help you in this process.
First of all, after the setting up of our Construction committee
last March, we have identified the need of members from other
economic sectors to meet and exchange experiences. Therefore, we are
pleased to announce the launch of the Luxury Committee and the
Health & Insurance Committee. They will meet for the first time this
month so that we will identify their expectations and prepare during
the summer dedicated events for September.
Your feedback is and remains essential for the operation of these
committees.
Finally, we remind you that the French Business Council belongs to
the UCCIFE (Union des Chambres de Commerce Francaise à l’Etranger).
This is a network of 110 Chambers of Commerce & Industry worldwide,
gathering 25,000 companies. This is a unique association of
competence, know-how and experiences. This month, a one week
seminaries is gathering the directors of these entities from all
over the world to exchange ideas and initiatives in order to improve
local military to our members.
We will come back to you with original ideas and are looking forward
to sharing them with you.
France Crespin-Van Duinen, Director
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Tuesday 8th |
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FBC Monthly Get
Together.
Your monthly rendez-vous at the
Vintage Cheese and Wine bar at Wafi City from 6:30 to 9pm. At
this occasion, we will welcome members of the Netherlands
Business Council. |
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Sunday 13th |
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Employment Seminar
Breakfast. This seminar will address job seekers based in Dubai.
Advices and tips to increase your chance of success and getting a
job.
Venue :
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Tuesday 22th |
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Labor Law Seminar
with Hélène Mathieu,
Legal Consultant, who will give you the updates on the UAE
regulations as well as other relevant informations. Your
opportunity to ask all the questions relating to the labor law.
Venue
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Monday 28th |
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Breakfast Conference with
Mr. Raymond Letayf from
Atradius who will address us on
"Export & Domestic Crédit Insurance".
This event is
sponsored by Atradius.
Venue :
Fairmont Hotel - Time : 9 am
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On 11th May,
Mr. Viallaneix
from SYSTRA
held a
presentation of Dubai Light Railway Project
in front of the selected audience of the Construction Committee.
This 3.5 billions euros
project aims at solving the numerous problems induced by the
forecast tripling of the travel demand. Increased number of
accidents, pollution, time waste, these are some of the troubles
identified by Dubai Municipality.
The selected solution targets
30,000 passengers per hour,
per lane and will directly or indirectly benefit the life of the
city with increased mobility, travel time saving, energy saving,
fewer accidents, less pollution and community amenity.
The actual project plans two lines, from Rashidya to Jebel Ali and
around the Creek with a total of 70 km rail (among which 17 km
underground) and 53 stations.
It will be an automatic driverless system, adapted to this region
with fully air-conditioned trains and two classes being considered,
a VIP class and a women class.
The bidding procedure should be completed within 17 months and
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For
those who did not collect the new directory 2004
from our office, one copy has been sent to you by
post. You should receive it shortly !
!! For info,
we have received the new directory from our
colleagues from Abu Dhabi (FBG). Feel free to
collect your copy in our office in Dubai.
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The n°18 issue of FBC Mag
centered on
“Tourism and Development”
will be sent to you by post on the second week of
June.
We
hope you will enjoy discovering this new issue and
wish you in advance, a gripping reading!
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ISLAMIC BANKING - 9th May |
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This event was
turned towards the specificities and the evolution of the Islamic
Banking. We had the pleasure to welcome specialized speakers from
BNP Paribas
of Bahrain: Jean-Marc RIEGEL
(Regional Manager Middle East) and
Alain RAAD
(Deputy Head of Islamic Banking,Deputy Regional Manager -Middle East-
Financial Institutions, Group Corporate & Investment Banking from
Bahrain).
See presentation
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MR. LOOS VISIT - 18th May |
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In the presence of
Mr. Gouyette,
Ambassador of France,
Mr. Jongeryck,
Consul General of France and
Mr. de Lajugie,
Head of the Economic Services for the middle East and
Mr. Abdulrahman Saif Al Ghurair
leading a delegation from Dubai Chamber of Commerce The French
Business Council welcomes
Mr. Loos, France’s Foreign Trade Minister.
In front of a crowded audience, the Minister expressed his feelings
of pride to see so many French companies involved in the prosperous
development of Dubai. “These are the ambassadors of the French
spirit, from small to large, all companies participating in the
radiance of France, and I thank the French Business Council for the
work accomplished and their motivation to carry on with further
initiatives” he said.
Mr Loos meet and exchanged a few words with everyone. He took time
to meet with the delegation members of Dubai Chamber of Commerce,
thanking them for their precious support toward the promotion of
bilateral trade relationship. The French Minister confirmed that his
government is keen to support increased mutual relations and
cooperation in economy, industry and transport. Our President, Mr.
Dao reminded the duty of the FBC to create a network of mutual aid,
experience sharing and mutual action for a better promotion, in
order to become better. To promote and motivate French companies,
this is the ambition of the FBC and “in order to develop foreign
trade in Dubai and the Northern Emirates, I can assure you of the
total and active support of all the members of the French Business
Council” said Mr. Dao in conclusion.
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Golden Caduceus
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On the 12th
May In the presence of
Mr.
Salahuddin,
CEO of
Al Hathboor
Group,
the CCI of Meurthe-and-Moselle offered
Mr. Abdullah
Saif AL Hathboor,
Managing Director of
Al Hathboor
Group
and
Mr. Pankaj Menon,
Senior General Manager of
Al Hathboor
International,a
« Golden Caduceus ». The French CCI presented this
prestigious prize to its important partner, Al Hathboor
Group which is a distributor of the cosmetics and perfumes
company, Home Institut, as a reward for distinguished
services.
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Khaleej Times announces a special report on France 2004
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To
implement the efficiency of the employment
service, the FBC will organize regular
seminars animated by jurists and labor law
specialists who will give you the updates on the uae regulations as well as other
relevant informations like recrutement,
training and more generally Human Ressources
strategy.
