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“Like in any other sector at this time in the Middle East, people are trying to solve the problems rather than putting in new investments. Nobody is even thinking about new investments,” says Wajih Bizri, President of International Chamber of Commerce Lebanon & Sipes Group.
The insurance industry in Ghana is dominated by the non-life business, which constituted 48.8 percent of the total gross written premium in 2013.
“When you look at our logo, you will read ‘’Château Kefraya: un terroir, une âme, un grand vin’’ (a terroir, a soul, a great wine). That is more than just a marketing tagline, it is really a strategy and it started with the conviction that Kefraya’s terroir (Kefraya being a village in West Bekaa) is really adequate to produce red wines and generally premium wines,” says Edouard Kosremelli, Directeur General Adjoint of Chateau Kefraya.
“Chateau Kefraya’s choices in terms of exports are directed to markets where there is an interest in let’s not say ‘’New World’’ wines but more ‘’Ancient World’’ wines; since Lebanon – as a wine-growing territory – is indeed part of the ancient world,” notes Emile Majdalani, Commercial Director of Chateau Kefraya.
“The trend in Lebanon is that there is certainly more and more interest in wine in general. The increase in the number of wineries proves this,” notes Emile Majdalani, Commercial Director of Chateau Kefraya.
Over the past five years Zara Investment Holding opened of one of Jordan’s most beautiful resorts – the Movenpick Resort and Spa Tala Bay in Aqaba. This was a U$80 million project and proved to be a huge success.
In 2014, Jordan received more than 250,000 patients from abroad and was awarded The Best Medical Tourism Destination of the year 2014 by the International Medical Travel Journal.
Jordan’s aim is to ensure that Renewable Energy Services will increase their contribution to the total energy mix, thereby reaching 10% by 2020.
“At the moment we have a licence to generate 5 megawatts but because the right policies are not in place, we are not able to generate,” says Omane Frimpong, CEO of Wilkins Engineering, Ghana’s world-class engineering company.
“The long term projects that we are involved in are ongoing electrification. Government in 1989 made a policy to electrify our country within 30 years. At that time the electrification rate was only 15%, today the government has reached about 72%,” says Omane Frimpong, CEO of Wilkins Engineering, Ghana’s world-class engineering company.
