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The past weeks have seen the world coming to Dubai with various sports events taking place and will end with glitters as our Annual Gala Diner is taking place at the Burj Al Arab on 31st March.
Besides After a hard working time, we are finally pleased to announce that the belated 2004 Directory is now available.
In April we will carry on with an agenda full of attractive events with two lunch conferences and two breakfasts among which the second meeting of our Construction Committee with the intervention of Mr. Viallanex from Systra.
I take this opportunity to remind you our monthly Get Together appointment on April 6th with our counterparts from the Swiss Business Council this time.
I let you discover our detailed agenda and wish you a fabulous month.

France Crespin-Van Duinen
Director
 
 

Agenda

March
Wednesday 31st

FBC Annual Gala Dinner
This prestigious event which will take place at the Burj Al Arab Hotel in the Al Talak Ballroom on the 27th floor.
Venue: Burj al Arab (Al Talak Ballroom) - Time: 8pm

April
Tuesday 6th

FBC Monthly Get Together. Your monthly rendez-vous at the Vintage Cheese and Wine bar at Wafi City from 6 to 9pm. This month we have invited our colleagues from the Swiss Business Council to join us.

Wednesday 7th

Lunch Conference "Director & Officers cover" with Shane Doyle, AIG, Regional Manager Financial Lines Middle East, Mediterranean and South Asia .  


"Retirement Savings and Pensions" with  R. Khalek - General Manager ALICO-Gulf  & A. Ogutu - Deputy Director GMD ALICO,

This event is sponsored by ALICO/ AIG.
Venue to be confirmed.

Sunday 18th

Lunch Conference "Interconnection of the seven Emirates’ Power Systems" - EDF and Areva will present us the project of electrical interconnexion in UAE.

End of April

VIP Lunch
We will have the honor to welcome H.H. Sheikh Tariq Bin Faisal Al Quassimi, who will elaborate current Projects and planned developments of Sharjah.
 Venue to be confirmed.

May
Tuesday 4th

FBC Monthly Get Together. Your monthly rendez-vous at the Vintage Cheese and Wine bar at Wafi City from 6 to 9pm.

Sunday 9th

Lunch Conference "Islamic Banking" presented by Mr. Marc Riegel from BNP Paribas.

Tuesday 18th

Breakfast Conference "Export & Domestic Credit Insurance" presented by Mr Raymond Letayf from Atradius.
This event is sponsored by Atradius.
Venue: Fairmont Hotel - Time : 9am

 

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FBC Committees Update

PUBLICATIONS Committee

 

The FBC Directory 2004 has arrived ! more than 200 members referenced ... Please visit the office to collect your copy.
 

CCI Committee

FUTURALLIA 2004 - 9th International Business Development Forum

(2, 3 and 4 June) Futuroscope, Poitiers, France


Established by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Vienne, the first event took place at the Poitiers (80 minutes by train, south west from Paris) Futuroscope (www.futuroscope.com) in 1990.


Futurallia event is now organised every year, the last having been held in Quebec in 2003: A total of 735 businesses and 120 development organisations took part to FUTURALLIA Quebec, resulting in 1,203 participants in 8,400 organised meetings.

 

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IMED - For now 13 years IMED (the Mediteranean Institute for Economy and Developpement) has permanent representation in, UAE, Morroco, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon and Turkey.

IMED, a French association (1901 law), is an exportation support for the small French companies. We represent them on the field by direct sales actions, managing the distribution net or orginizing events such as Dubai Boat Show. For the third year we represent HUIT Diffusion specialised in confection and commercialisation of under-wear and swimming suits for women. A high quality product with french touch design.

Creative Scents a perfumer from the capital of perfumes, Grasse, is developing its business in Dubai through us. We work with local importaters and make on mesures all the perfumes as they required. We provide them with basic components as essence of cinamon, musk, wood or rose…

An amazing and revolutionnary fishing simulator invented by Patrice Biousse (BIOUSSE SCATRI) is arriving in Dubai for the next boat show in March. We will promote this simulator to sport fishing club and association, hotels, Leisure Park and fishing amateur.

Destombes Creations a french fabric designer is working in Dubai for few years with us. We deal with high quality fabrics. We present modern and old style design for all tastes.

IMED is open to represent other French companies and will be pleased to welcome you in our office at the FBC.

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EVENTS Committee

Everything is set and ready and we are very impatient to welcome you to our Annual Gala Dinner this Wednesday at the Burj Al Arab.

Here is our last minute check list:

 r Have you though of bringing some brochures of your company to be displayed in the entrance? If not please come along the office on Tuesday
 r Have you paid and collected your invitation card? If not, please call the office and come along as soon as possible. Otherwise, you may have problem to enter the hotel.
 r Are you concerned about the dress code? Men will come either in tuxedo, national dress or in elegant suit. For the ladies, long (and semi long) and elegant dress will be perfect.
 r Are you worried about the menu? You can trust the FBC team. The menu has been tested and is delicious. A vegetarian alternative will also be available.

r Are you wondering about the table setting? The ballroom is round so that each table is well located. For further details, please call the FBC office.
 r Are you anxious about the car park? No worries, valet service is standard at the Burj Al Arab.
I hope we have answered all your questions. However, should you required additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

 
 
 
EMPLOYMENT Committee

With the increasing success of the Employment Service over the past years and more and more resumes and job offers to manage, this service is welcoming Aurelia Sauve as part of the team. Aurelia will provide a full time presence at the FBC offices on Saturdays and Tuesdays, from 8am to 1pm to help improve the service provided to our members. Aurelia time with us is however currently limited to a period of one month. If her involvement proves to be extremely beneficial to the members this trial may be evolved into a permanent service.
 
 
CONSTRUCTION Committee

To meet high and higher expectations from Members of our fast-growing Council, FBC has decided to set up committees by activity sector.

Dubai has embraced an astonishing development programme. A large number of construction and infrastructure projects have been launched, ranging from airport expansion to a brand new mass transit system. French companies are participating or bidding to participate in all these projects. FBC is proposing to gather Members working in these sectors under a Construction Committee, grouping Construction, Infrastructure and Oil & Gas sectors.

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Last Month Activities

Mega Projects in Dubai, 15th Feb. 2004
 

This conference, held on the 15th February looked at Mega-Projects shaping Dubai’s development and was presented by:
George Gore (Emaar), Mohamed Ahmed-Yahia (Legrand), Willy Lunardi (Willow Pixy), Phil Mc Arthur (Dubai Festival City)Phil Mac Arthur (Director Leasing & Marketing, Dubai Festival City LLC)Phil McArthur, Director Leasing and Marketing Dubai Festival City LLC More
George Gore, Research Manager Emaar Properties PJSC More

During this conference we were able to discuss the Mega Projects and particularly Shopping Centers that are currently underway in Dubai. Among these projects, “Dubai Festival City” which is a dynamic waterfront ‘city-within-a-city’ project currently being developed on the banks of the Dubai Creek.

... According to a recent Gulf Business report, there are no less than 20 new shopping centers either under development or on the drawing boards for Dubai. The emirate’s available gross leasable area – already the largest in the Gulf – is expected to increase by 270 per cent from around its current 7 million square feet to around 26 million square feet if all announced projects come to fruition ...

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Mr. Hussain Al Jaziri
Swaidan Trading Co. (llc)

 
 
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