The new Minister of Industry, Vrej Sabounjian, has made his mark in Lebanese business as the president and owner of the food service and laundry manufacturing firm, Vresso. Having just gotten …
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For an inside view of Lebanon’s top restaurants, check out the the luxury special report in the July edition of Executive Magazine, in stores now.
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Economic growth crashing to 1.3 percent Lebanon’s real gross domestic product growth for 2011 is expected to be just 1.3 percent, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) latest country …
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To describe Lebanon’s telecommunications sector as politicized would be an understatement on par with saying the summer of 2006 was eventful, or that Hezbollah and Israel enjoy a good game …
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Developing a vibrant and innovative information and communication technology (ICT) sector would provide the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region with a propitious opportunity to increase productivity and boost …
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When the tourism minister starts talking about how we should change the country’s strategy from attracting “land” tourists to “air” tourists you know that the industry, which props up around …
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The ‘Arab Spring’ is yielding some unexpected and exotic political fruits. The proposal to accept Jordan and Morocco into the Gulf Cooperation Council is certainly among the most intriguing, and …
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The failure of a government to actually govern can be overlooked, and even ignored, when a country’s economy somehow manages to independently cook up growth, as Lebanon’s has, churning out …
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Money talks Figures published last month by the Kuwaiti-owned Zain Group, which operates Lebanon’s mobile phone network MTC, indicated that it generated a net profit of $27.1 million in 2010 …
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ULRICH KÖGLER is a partner and IVAN JAKOVLJEVIC a senior associate at Booz & Company In an age when email and digital social media dominate the present and future of …