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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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 …
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According to a recent report, poverty is on the rise inLebanon. What is the World Bank doing to addressthat issue? PRASAD: Poverty alleviation is the fundamental driving orientationof the bank, …
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Few Lebanese were worried aboutrepairing their cars back in 1990, letalone restoring a vintage automobile.That’s the year that Mondial, a repair shopthat has been restoring classics since 1948,almost went bankrupt. …
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Courier company or restaurant?They’re not as different as youmight think. The owners of Casper &Gambini’s (C&G’s) have proven that point.In 1996, they figured there was good moneyto be made in …
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“I had a dream of making this companythe biggest industrial entityin Lebanon, but I’ve realized thatI can’t and the government doesn’t care tohelp,” says Izzat Kaddoura, chairman ofSoliver (Société Libanaise …