“Overall, we feel that the non-oil economic growth is going to outperform the oil economic growth. OPEC has implemented production cuts in order to stabilize oil prices, and Kuwait will be adhering to those cuts. That will have an effect on the real GDP growth because Kuwait is such a highly energy dependent economy. It all depends on how the oil markets behave.”
“The government is now concentrating on our cultural sites. We recently completed the Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Centre, which houses an opera center and different convention centers. By the middle of this year, we expect to open another cultural and scientific center, called Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre.”
“Everywhere we used to see challenges that needed solutions, and for all the problems in the world, there are solutions. We wanted to start giving solutions to the people and to charge them for it.”
“Corruption is rife, Kuwait jumped up 20 places in the ranking for corruption. Unfortunately up to now, democracy has not been helping the development of Kuwait as it used to in the 60s, 70s and partially in the 80s.”
“Our vision is to be one of the ten biggest contracting companies in not only the Gulf area, but throughout the Middle East.”
“Dahan is involved in interior fit out contracting. We execute many spaces such as restaurants, shops, boutiques, banks, and office spaces. We are purely executers and builders.”
“We are known to work on fast track, design development projects. We started that process back in the 70s with one of the real estate companies called Salhia Real Estate. We did the Salhia Mall that is still considered to be the mall with a very large number of prime brands like Louis Vuitton and others.”
“Every month Expedia ranks the top 10 hotels that have been booked via Expedia and we are always in the top 10 and very often in the top 5 and the other hotels are all international hotels which have their brand all over and big companies will only book with them. This shows that what we are doing is hitting the right target.”
“We are a Registration Authority in the hierarchy of the Certification Authority for the electronic digital signature which secures anything that goes on the internet. We are a Registration Authority for Lebanon, the Middle East area and the continent of Africa. Of course we can deal in other places but every case has to be discussed with Globalsign independently and on its own merits. Nowadays Cyber-security issues are a prime topic.”
“LAU’s accreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) was recently renewed for ten years — the maximum such extension. Our professional schools are also individually accredited.”
