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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The Association of Insurance Companies in Lebanon (ACAL) is the leading voice representing insurance providers in the country. Executive sat down with ACAL president Assaad Merza to learn about the …
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Insurance customers rely on impartial authority to ensure that their insurance policy will be honored when they have to file a claim. For insurance companies, the supervision by a trusted …
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The lure of an easy buck is tempting for many, and as online trading becomes ever more accessible in Lebanon there are many who are ready to put their savings …
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Andrew Tabler’s account of his time in Syria between 2001 and 2008 is refreshing — relative to the reams of Orientalist trite other Western authors have published about the Middle …
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Roger Dubuis (RD) is a Geneva-based horology manufacturer that specializes in luxury watches and was acquired in 2008 by the Richemont group. It sells its products through distributers in the …