Family Business in Jordan
We have identified the areas we want to enter by looking at 4,000 different industries and business activities.
Jordan Capital Markets
The current market capitalization amounted to 22 billion JD – that represents about 137% of GDP, which is considered high compared to international standards.
Red Sea Megaproject
There has been a sort of freeze in supply and increase in demand which is causing the increase we saw in the first six months of 2010.
Jordan Investments
Investments that have come through the Jordan Investment Board and have benefitted from the investment promotion law are 174% greater than in 2009.
Jordan Ministry of Tourism
The current strategy ends in 2010 and we already surpassed the target by 35% in terms of revenues. The target was 1.9 billion JD in revenues and eight months ago we reached that number.
Jordan Ministry of Energy
We import 96% of our energy from outside of Jordan, not only from Egypt; we import only the gas from Egypt for our electricity generation.
Royal Jordanian Airlines
We are noticing that in Jordan, our market-share is in the upper 50s, sometimes close to 60% of the market, and this is unprecedented in many countries.
Jordan Ministry of ICT
Ministry of ICT Jordan, Minister of ICT Jordan, H.E. Marwan Jumaa
After 10 years of work, the sector has now grown to about 2.2 billion dollars in size, of which 1.3 billion is in telecom and 900 million is in IT.
Arab Bank Jordan
Standard & Poor’s Corp. cut Jordan’s long-term local currency sovereign ratings to BBB- from BBB.
Petra Authority
Petra has over 3000 special monuments; the type of architecture there is really amazing.