C hange is slow in the Lebanese business world, where family owned companies are king and the boss is the boss. Modem concepts like stock options for employees and even …
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Most Lebanese textile companies are holding on by a thread in today’s difficult times. Customs duties on raw materials range from 20% to 25%, higher than in any neighboring country, …
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For most people, summer means lazy days lounging by the swimming pool, catching rays. But for Salim Makhoul, summer is time to make money. In 1969, he founded Aquarius, a …
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Bakers and business people are of a similar breed. One likes to see his bread rise, the other his profits. Dora Mills is a company that likes to see both. …
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W hen Toufic Tasso bought a faltering business school five years ago, he never dreamed of the financial windfall the investment would bring. “I didn’t imagine that there could be …