The large majority of building stock in any modern society needs to consist of affordable, social, smart residential units, which means a massive presence of low cost apartments. This is …
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Last month, two shark-like super yachts sat in Solidere marina, the sun’s reflection glinting menacingly off their blacked-out windows. Inside, built-in swimming pools, jacuzzis, radar masts and other space age …
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Car drivers around the world usually agree on one opinion: gas prices at the pump rapidly shoot up when world crude prices increase but slip much less eagerly when crude …
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Banque Nationale de Paris Intercontinentale (BNPI), an offshoot of France’s BNP Paribas, is celebrating its 60th year in Lebanon, an indication that the bank remains confident of the Beirut market. …
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The frightening rise in the number of terror attacks in Saudi Arabia appears to be aimed primarily at the expatriate community. This seems like a clear attempt to strike at …
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Owned by Lufthansa German airlines and a big German retail conglomerate, the Thomas Cook of today is a much changed company primarily extending travel and financial services to European consumers …
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Lebanon’s $530 million retail jewelry sector has been putting in a strong performance over the last decade, with a reputation as one of the leading markets in jewelry manufacturing in …
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Lebanon’s new boom is tourism-related real estate. Significant developments – worth in excess of $4 billion – in this field have begun roughly four years ago and accelerated massively by …
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Solidere has launched a new program thought to bring many changes to your business. What is the program’s core offering? The program is based on settling part of the price …
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Jerome Bon, professor of marketing at France’s premier Business school ESCP-EAP, has been an ESA intermittent teacher and advisor since the two institutions joined forces with the central bank of …
