Neemat Frem is the president of the Association of Lebanese Industrialists, chief executive officer at INDEVCO Group and founder of technology service provider Phoenix Machinery. He recently sat down with Executive to look back at Lebanese industry since the 2006 war and to discuss the sector’s future needs. E: It has been five years since the 2006 war. How has the sector fared since suffering so much damage? If you look at the numbers over the last five years, the industrial sector was able to grow at a rate of 20 percent per year despite the2006 war. This is something exceptional. This growth was due mainly to the entrepreneurial craft of the Lebanese and relative stability since 2006, and probably a sense of optimism. The number one exporters have traditionally been the printing sector and then it moved towards food products, and then lately, in the last two years, we
