While 2010 saw the launching of five development megaprojects, all in downtown Beirut, this year saw a more modest track of real estate announcements. The biggest by far was the …
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Entrepreneurial fervor among the Lebanese is well established, though the proper support systems to encourage and assist entrepreneurs are only recently improving. Endeavor, a non-profit nongovernmental organization (NGO), which supports …
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Following Lebanon’s skyrocketing success in 2010, this year saw a much calmed real estate sector. Though many buyers have been carefully shopping around and looking for the best deals, most …
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DERMANDAR The concept: Meaning ‘all around’ in Lebanese slang, Dermandar specializes in digital image technologies. The concept is simple: pictures taken with a normal camera can be turned into a …
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After the market trauma of 2011 and the continuing uncertainty, investor expectations heading into 2012 are still sinking, but yet, despite the dread, one must put one’s money somewhere. Thus, …
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Little has improved in Lebanon since Executive’s last year-end report on the environment in December 2010. Air quality continues to deteriorate, urbanization advances almost totally unchecked and water resources remain …
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Telecommunications in Lebanon has come to embody the fault line along which Lebanese business and government split. While the people who use the communications networks try to progress and join …
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The role of branding products to increase their value and profitability is given serious import in the commercial world. Building familiarity, trust and loyalty to brands is at the core …
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Every year the rain passes over in Lebanon, endowing it with a resource that much of the Middle East can only dream of. But even as those rains fall and …
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Vrej Sabounjian took the reins at the Ministry of Industry in June, taking his experience from the business boardroom to the political cabinet. It has been a bumpy ride for …