For sale: one national airline carrier that has lost $360 million in the last four years. Doesn’t make for a very appealing advert. Could there possibly be any takers if …
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The timing was hardly ideal. Four years ago, the Samba ice cream factory in the Syrian city of Homs began operations, rolling chocolate-covered ice cream bars off its modern assembly …
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0nly on Sunday mornings can the thunder of horse hooves and the cheers and moans of men be heard rising up from the 84-year-old Beirut Hippodrome. In stark contrast to …
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A restaurant owner shopping for new kitchen equipment has plenty of choices. Around 23 different companies compete on the main market for industrial kitchen supply, which is worth about $12 …
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I n case you hadn’t noticed, a new line oflocally made dairy products recently appeared on supermarket shelves. Li ban Lail is the third and riewest major combatant in Lebanon’s …
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The South’s liberation has brought back into the public eye a 40-year-oldplan to turn Lebanon into an agricultural breadbasket. With the exceptionof Turkey, Lebanon is the only country in the …
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Rafic Gazzaoui, CEO of RaficGazzaoui & Co, has been a littleanxious of late. “I know I can maintainthe same turnover until 2001. But afterthat, I have no idea how we …
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Two’s company, three’s a crowd, or sopeople say. But for Almaza, one wascomfortable enough. Since the mid-1990s, the only locally produced beer was thebig kid on the block. After the …
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A visitor arriving in Lebanon might be impressed by the bustleof construction at the new airport. Estimates indicatethat by completion, the total cost will run upwards of $800million. But not …
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Lebanon, start your engine. “Therally of Lebanon is targeted tobecome a world championshipcourse in 2001,” asserts Gaby Kreiker,director of the Automobile and TouringClub of Lebanon (ATCL). He expects 500foreign journalists …