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“The biggest competitive aspect is the government support for electricity, fuel, some ingredients, etc. This helps us to maintain reasonable and low prices for the final consumers,” says Ali O. Al-Rakban, CEO of Al Safi.
“The big investment opportunities in agriculture will be in the food production with efficient water consumption. Greenhouses is an opportunity and different types of research to utilize seawater in agriculture could be an opportunity,” says Ali O. Al-Rakban, CEO of Al Safi.
“I believe it is time for the private sector to step in and start privatising utilities. Why shouldn’t the private sector start their own power generation plants, where they can have their own utility generation units making 200 to 500 megawatts, which they sell to the government or to the electricity authority?,” asks Emad Al-Shamma, CEO of Al Khafrah Group Holding Co.
“(It) is a continual process of adjustment. The regulations, laws, and by-laws all have to be meshed together, fine-tuned, and improved, and that doesn’t happen overnight. We hope that entities like SAGIA, SIDF, MODON, are slowly shifting from their previous stand to better stands,” says Emad Al-Shamma, CEO of Al Khafrah Group Holding Co.
“The challenge is the bureaucracy and legislation for establishing ventures in Saudi Arabia… it should take weeks, but instead it takes months. There is a big demand for industrial zones. MODON is working very hard to supply these areas, but still, the demand exceeds the supply,” says Emad Al-Shamma, CEO of Al Khafrah Group Holding Co.
“There are so many industrial products worldwide that you cannot count them all. However, if you are seeking new products, then Saudi Arabia is the place where you can implement the industrialisation of new products,” says Emad Al-Shamma, CEO of Al Khafrah Group Holding Co.
“So many people are coming to Saudi Arabia because they know that there is going to be demand for 43 gigawatts of renewable energy in Saudi Arabia by the year 2030,” says Emad Al-Shamma, CEO of Al Khafrah Group Holding Co.
The Saudi Arabia’s cabinet authorized the Capital Market Authority to allow foreign investors to buy and sell stocks on the Saudi stock market.
Advanced Electronics Company (AEC) was one of the companies created under the auspices of the Saudi Economic Offset Program, which originally started in the mid-1980s. The company focused on critical technologies and dedicated itself to defence electronics, later on spreading into other areas such as ICT and industry (power and energy).
Dr. Ghassan Al-Shibl, President and CEO of Advanced Electronics Company (AEC), a leading manufacturing company operating in military, telecom and industrial sectors, stresses the importance of knowledge economy for Saudi Arabia.
