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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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 …
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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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In 1994, Lebanon lookedlike a gold mine to Apave.The construction businesswas booming and the French-basedcompany, which doesquality and risk managementfor construction projects, hadjust opened an office in Beirut.Apave came to …
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Who would want tobe an architectthese days? Withconstruction at a virtual haltand a glut of unsold real estateon the market, it would seemthat designing new buildings isthe last business anyone …
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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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You couldn’t pick a worse time to be acontractor. With the economy at astandstill and the debt-ridden governmentreducing public works expenditures,construction projects are scarce. Contractorsare fighting over whatever business they …
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Seven years ago, Imad Kreidieh,founder and majority shareholder ofAllied Distributors, tried to capitalizeon Lebanon’s building boom by selling constructionmaterials and electrical supplies.Business was not brisk, though. The companyhad barely got …
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Switching from the import of cheapproducts to higher quality and now toprojects, Power Tech surged ontothe battery market. Its turnover jumpedfrom about $250,000 in 1994 to $4.9 millionlast year. In …
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Something’s in the air at Sociétéd’Oxygène et d’Acétylène du Liban(SOAL). A subsidiary of France-basedAir Liquide (AL France), SOAL hasgone on the offensive since the early 1990swith new management, a diversified …