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Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has announced a new Sharjah Top 10 Businesses Award as an addition to the chamber’s annual shjSEEN Awards programme, which recognises outstanding business achievement in Sharjah. The new award is an invite only award to encourage performance across the private sector. The Sharjah Top 10 Businesses Award draws on the Excellence Model of ...

SOEX Group, a global leader in recycling and marketing used textiles, is to establish a recycling plant in Sharjah’s Hamriyah Free Zone at a cost of 5 million Euros (AED 21m). Expected to open in mid-2017, the 322,917 square foot (30,00 sqm.) free zone facility is the German company’s first in the United Arab Emirates and will employ 300 to 400 ...

Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) explored new strategies for cooperation between government and private sectors at the “Ramadan Majlis” evening organised by Shurooq in association with Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), on Monday July 20th 2016, at Al Jawaher Reception and Convention Centre in Sharjah. Hosting an elite group of high-profile executives from the UAE’s economic sector, ...

Sharjah will add over 3 million square feet (278,000+ sqm.) of premium shopping mall space by the year 2020, with expansion plans being implemented by shopping mall developers and operators. Developers aim to capitalise on extensive new master-planned developments in Sharjah’s suburbs alongside the development and redevelopment of Sharjah’s urban areas and the continued growth of the emirate as a ...

Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, has announced that it will launch a new daily route from Mangaluru (Mangalore) in southern India to Sharjah in the UAE from 7 August 2016. Mangaluru is the main port city of Karnataka, India’s twelfth largest state by population. Jet Airways is India’s second largest airline operating flights to 73 destinations, including 22 international ...

Majid Al Futtaim Holding is building a ‘super-regional’ shopping mall at Al Zahia community in Sharjah, which is planned to open in 2018. Al Zahia is a 1.3 million square metre (14m sq ft) masterplanned gated community being developed by Majid Al Futtaim and owned by Sharjah Holding, a joint venture between Majid Al Futtaim and the Government of Sharjah. ...

The lucrative opportunities for investment between Sharjah and Australia were the main item on the agenda at a “Sharjah – Australia Roundtable” organised by Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq), in association with the Australian Business Council in Dubai (ABCD), the Australian Trade Commission and Australia Unlimited, which took place yesterday at the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI). ...

His Highness Dr Shaikh Sultan Bin Mohammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, has given approval for what could be the largest safari park project outside Africa. The second phase of the Seih Al Bardi Kabeer Park will see the park expand to an area of 14 square kilometres (about 3,500 acres) and be prepared to accommodate ...

The United Arab Emirates is the largest trade partner in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), with a 2014 trade volume of US$121.7 billion (AED 444b) accounting for 15.2 percent of total intra-OIC trade, according to Secretary-General of the Federation of UAE Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Humaid bin Salim. Turkey had the next highest level of trade with US$77.8 ...

Promoting Sharjah’s array of investment opportunities to Germany’s business community was the basis of a recent visit to Berlin which was successfully concluded by Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) on the day before yesterday (Friday). During their visit, Shurooq was at the German capital as it organised the Sharjah-Berlin Seminar, while on the second day, it participated at the 19th ...