The veil of secrecy shrouding the scandal involving two financial titans — Saad Group and Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi & Brothers Company — has regional financiers fearing untold billions of dollars …
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Last year’s soaring food prices caused a global crisis that triggered a shopping spree on farm land around the world. Rich countries that normally import food have now bought up …
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Optimism about a year-end pickup in initial public offerings (IPOs) cannot conceal that August was yet another bone-dry month, which continued the plunge of all IPO measures in the MENA …
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Crepaway was founded in 1984 by two brothers, Charles and Claude Thoumy, as a limited liability company and was incorporated in 2003. Today, Crepaway Corporation operates eight outlets in Lebanon …
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Salim G. Sfeir has been chairman and general manager of Bank of Beirut since 1993. He spoke with Executive about Bank of Beirut’s plan to open 14 new branches — …
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Edmond (Eddie) Moutran is the founder of the advertising firm Memac, and is now the chairman and CEO of its successor, Memac Ogilvy. As the first Lebanese advertising executive to …
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Stéphane Réjasse, managing director for Fujitsu Technology Solutions in the Middle East, has had a 22-year career in information technology that spans Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Previously based …
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Samih Saadeh is general manager of Lebanon’s 18th largest bank, Banque BEMO, and has been with the bank since 2003. He started working in the banking industry in 1978 and …
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Ralph Clementson is the general manager for the advertising agency Ogilvy and Mather, in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. He is also on the board of Memac Ogilvy, the …
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Samsung, the South Korea-based electronics manufacturing giant, announced the official launch of its regional Levant office this summer, to be based in Amman, Jordan. Executive was invited to attend the …
