List of all articles filed under “egypt-investments” category.
Adly Thoma gives an overview of Gemini Africa, an investment company and a hub for the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Egypt and across Africa. Gemini Africa plays the role of the arm for entrepreneurs, linking or bridging between the ecosystem and Orascom Group. The company positions itself as an enabler and access to support for the startups.
Adly Thoma, Executive Chairman and CEO of Gemini Africa, a one-stop entrepreneurial hub providing support to African youth and entrepreneurs, gives an overview of the Egypt-based company’s scope of business.
In September last year, during the celebrations in the New York Stock Exchange, Egypt was the winner of the best innovative stock exchange in the entire African continent.
The following list of the leading technological parks in Egypt includes the two pioneers in this segment: the company behind Cairo’s Smart Village and the SRTA-City.
We need to increase the numbers by 15 to 20% every year to reach the target we have set ourselves, of $20 billion. We plan to have strong advertising campaigns all the way through to 2020. We will try to attract new segments of tourists to visit Egypt by offering safaris, spas, golf and MICE.
Egypt is the world’s largest importer of wheat, at around 10 million tons per year. Unfortunately, due to the lack of sufficient or proper storage conservative numbers by the government estimate around 30% of crops are wasted. Blumberg Grain has a solution.
The new concept of New Homes has been in the market since 2008 to serve the developers as a marketing arm and as a consultant to consumers, to assist them in choosing from different developments across the country, especially residential, gated communities, or as we call them, ‘compounds’.
“In addition to the mega projects we have tangible, well-studied sectorial industrial projects in several fields and sectors, including petrochemicals, the engineering sector, household goods, electrical equipment, white goods etc., that are for the domestic Egyptian market.”
“The announcement of the increase of SECON’s capital and the launching of these three projects simultaneously with Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC) has a very important message to both local and international investors about the current atmosphere in Egypt.”
“There are so many investment opportunities in many sectors in Egypt – Agro industry, ICT, real estate, energy and many others. Personally, I think the one that is going to take the limelight is energy,” argues Hisham Fahmy, CEO of American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt.
