Sharjah Industrial, residential, and cultural aspects are combined in the profile of Sharjah. The emirate ranks third in terms of housing demand, size, and population in the UAE. Industry is a development focus where the emirate claims to generate 40% of the country’s industrial GDP in its manufacturing establishments and 19 industrial zones. The latest major industrial zone projects in the emirate are the Emirates Industrial City (EIC) and the Sharjah Investment Center (SIC). EIC is owned by UAE and Saudi developers through a holding company. The project’s size is 7.7 million square meters; it caters to small and medium enterprises, with a strong space allocation to logistics and warehousing. SIC is a mixed use industrial, commercial, and business zone of 2.9 million square meters that is being developed by SNASCO, a Saudi-owned real estate firm. In 2006, Sharjah was ranked in second place for the number of industrial establishments
