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BY NAAFIA MATTOO, IN DUBAI

AS the only female partner at Ernst & Young’s Dubai office, Ginnie Carlier paints an intimidating figure on paper. In person, she is affable, engaging and wryly admits to leaving E&Y early in her career to work for Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas for a year "because it seemed like fun" Aside from that bout of adventurousness, Ms Carlier has been with E&Y since 1993.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE MULTI-billion dollar beauty market in the Middle East’s Gulf countries is back on an upward trend, thanks to renewed economic growth as this rich region, with avid consumers start spending again. Demand for cosmetics and personal care products are being driven by high disposable incomes, new sales channels and a growing lifestyle trend among both men and women in terms of plastic surgery, personal fitness and body care.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE

The countries of the Arabian Gulf region will spend USD90 billion on new airports and expansion projects over the next few years, according to the organisers of the Dubai Airport Show 2011. The figure is based, in part, on figures from the Airports Council International and the International Air Transportation Association (IATA) that have predicted that airports in the Middle East are expected to handle more than 400 million passengers yearly by 2020.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A JOINT venture run by the United Arab Emirates’ Masdar and Abu Dhabi Gas Industries (GASCO) has registered a gas flaring reduction device with the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism. The technology will be installed at Abu Dhabi emirate’s Asab and Bab gas processing plants and create 7,770 tradeable Certified Emission Reductions annually – each representing one tonne of CO2.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE

Abu Dhabi-based airport systems integration provider Bayanat Airports Engineering and Supplies has signed a strategic partnership agreement to become the exclusive United Arab Emirates (UAE) sales representative for Adacel, an Australia-based specialist in advanced air traffic control simulators and automated ATM systems.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE

DUBAI International Airport (DXB), in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is planning to launch a large-scale passenger flow measurement project to track the movement and activity of passengers from the second they enter the airport complex.

From the airport’s growth statistics, it appears the trial has not come a moment too soon; DXB is one of the fastest growing airports in the world and could become the busiest in the near future.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

THE MIDDLE East’s confectionery market (including the Gulf, the Levant, Egypt (but not elsewhere in north Africa), Iraq Iran, Turkey and Israel) was valued at US dollar USD113 billion in 2009, while annual chocolate sales exceeded USD4.2 billion, according to USA-based TNS Media Intelligence.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE

The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Fujairah International Airport has selected Czech Republic and Slovakia-based IT company ALES for the supply of an air traffic control system and ERA (part of American technology and systems company SRA International) for a wide area multilateration radar to fully automate the airport’s air control centre, and implement an advanced surveillance solution.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE

The return of economic growth in the Middle East – especially in the Arabian Gulf region – has prompted European aviation technology company AVTECH to establish a new subsidiary in Dubai.

AVTECH Middle East LLC opened for business on May 31, 2011, after more than three years of collaborations between AVTECH Sweden AB and local United Arab Emirates (UAE) businessman Dr Mohammed bin Saeed Al Badi (SPELLING CHECKED).…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

Kurdish Iraq tobacco market is Middle East black market hub

International tobacco companies entered Kurdish Iraq after the US-led invasion. But political instability has made this a tough market to operate in. Black market trades thrive. And there are a wide variety of brands from around the world available.…