Day: May 18, 2021

DUBAI, Dubai’s Department of Economic Development (Dubai Economy) has announced that the number of operating businesses in Al Quoz has reached 12,437 to date, according to a report by its Business Registration & Licensing (BRL) Sector.

Of these businesses, 73 percent are Commercial, followed by Professional at 20 percent, and the rest related to Tourism and Industry. The report presents the volume of commercial activities in Al Quoz, providing the business community an overview of the opportunities available in the area.

The report shows that the rate of distribution of the active licences in Al Quoz’s top three sub-regions; Al Quoz 3, Al Quoz 1 and Al Quoz Industrial 2, reached 59 percent of the total number of active companies in the locality.

In terms of legal forms of the active licences in Al Quoz, Limited Liability Company (LLC) ranked first at 68 percent, followed by Sole Establishment (21 percent), and Civil Company (6 percent).

The legal forms also include One-Person Limited Liability Companies, Branches of Companies based in other Emirates, General Partnership, Branches of GCC Companies, Branches of Free Zone Companies, Branches of Foreign Companies, Public Shareholding Companies, Private Joint-Stock Companies, Limited Partnership and Social Media Channels.

In April 2021, Dubai government launched the Al Quoz Creative Zone, a unified and integrated centre to serve creative people from all over the world, in line with the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, to transform Dubai into the global capital of the creative economy by 2025. This will strengthen the emirate’s position as a regional and international centre for the creative economy within an integrated system that would contribute to achieving Dubai’s comprehensive economic development.

Al Quoz is divided into commercial and residential areas. The residential areas include Al Quoz 1, 2, 3 and 4 to the north, whereas Al Quoz Industrial Areas 1, 2, 3 and 4 are located towards the south. The commercial district has several factories and warehouses.

The Al Quoz Creative Zone will cover a range of fields including publishing, writing, print and audio-visual media such as cinema, music and video, as well as artistic and cultural industries, cultural heritage museums, historical sites, archives, major cultural events, libraries, and the software and video gaming industry. It will also include design in all its variations, related to fashion, gaming, software, or architecture.

Dubai Economy’s strategy focuses on enhancing ease of doing business, as well as driving the overall competitiveness and sustainable growth of Dubai. The BRL sector offers several initiatives such as ease of start-up procedures, business registration, adoption of new e-services, and value-added services for licensed business owners.

‘Invest in Dubai,’ a unified digital platform, offers the most competitive means to launching a business in Dubai. It simplifies business journey and allows to complete services and transactions without the need to visit service centres.

The platform provides initial approval, reservation of a trade name, issuance of instant licences, Dubai SME licences, Intelaq licences, DED Trader licences, in addition to electronic Memorandum of Association, and the renewal of commercial licences, enabling individuals to easily start their businesses by visiting invest.dubai.ae or calling 600 500 006.

Source: Emirates News Agency

DUBAI, Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is offering 350 catchy number plates of 2, 3, 4 and 5 digits for private and classic vehicles.

Plates on offer bear (A-B-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P-Q-R-S-T-U-V-W) codes. This 64th online auction is the second of its kind this year.

Registration of bidders starts this Sunday, 23rd May, and the bidding process kicks off at 08:00 am on Sunday, 30th May, and continue for five days only.

The selling of licensing plates in this auction is subject to a 5 percent VAT. Each bidder is required to have a Traffic File opened in Dubai, submit a security cheque amounting to AED5,000 made to RTA, and pay an un-refundable participation fee of AED120. Payment can be made at Customers Happiness Centres at Umm Al Ramool, Al Barsha or Deira, or by credit card via (www.rta.ae) or Dubai Drive app.

Online auctions are particularly appealing to a large segment of the community as they offer fans the liberty of selecting their fancied plates in a hassle-free environment. Moreover, this sort of auctions contributes to enhancing the online service offering of RTA as part of its annual plans for upgrading the quality of processing customer transactions.

Source: Emirates News Agency

DUBAI, Emirates today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Huawei to further extend its existing partnership. The enhanced collaboration will allow both brands to build awareness to a wider audience in the Middle East and beyond.

The agreement was signed at Arabian Travel Market 2021 (ATM) in Dubai by Orhan Abbas, Senior Vice President of Commercial Operations – Far East at Emirates and Lu Geng, Vice President Middle East and Africa of Huawei Global Partnerships & Eco-Development, signalling the deepened strategic cooperation between Emirates and Huawei and mutual benefits in expanding their reach in China and Middle East and African markets, respectively. Also present at the signing ceremony was Adnan Kazim, Emirates’ Chief Commercial Officer and William Hu, Regional Business Development Director, Eco-Development Department, Huawei.

In addition to joint promotions designed to build brand awareness for Emirates and Huawei in the other’s home markets, the partnership will also encompass the launch of customer-centric initiatives including enhanced and engaging experiences for Huawei smart phone users while booking tickets and making travel plans on the Emirates app, available on the AppGallery – Huawei’s official distribution platform and one of the top three global app marketplaces in the world, with more than 530 million active monthly users. The joint cooperation will also see Emirates providing support for the Huawei search engine, Petal Search, on smart devices in the MEA region.

For Emirates, the integration into Huawei’s ecosystem will allow the airline to tap into a wider target audience and Huawei phone users, especially in the Chinese marketplace which has been regarded as one of the key strategic markets for Emirates worldwide.

This move was built on the successful collaboration of the two brands established in early 2020, when the Emirates app was made available on Huawei’s smart phone devices on its AppGallery, bringing users a richer and more engaging range of functions conveniently to their fingertips. The collaboration was further expanded in September 2020 with enhancements that allowed quicker bookings and other tailored functionalities that customised the mobile experience.

The MoU signed today also involves further development of the Emirates Mobile App on AppGallery. To date, the Emirates app has had more than 1 million installs from AppGallery. The AppGallery is also attracting an increasing numbers of developers with 2.3 million currently registered, a 77 percent increase from last year. As of March 2021, there were more than 70,000 registered developers in the Middle East and Africa region.

Source: Emirates News Agency

DUBAI, flydubai, the Dubai-based airline, is showcasing the latest developments to its onboard experience at this year’s Arabian Travel Market (ATM).

The carrier’s redesigned passenger experience and added onboard offering reflect its agility and commitment to meeting the changing travel needs of customers.

flydubai’s passenger experience has been redesigned to enable travel in a safe environment that minimises crew and passenger contact and offers passengers confidence to travel at every step of their journey. Passengers who book a flight through flydubai.com will receive complimentary global cover for COVID-19 related costs to offer greater peace of mind when travelling.

Daniel Kerrison, Vice President Inflight Product at flydubai, said, “the onset of the pandemic in 2020 has reshaped the way people travel and the way airlines operate. We have taken all necessary precautionary measures to safeguard our passengers and that meant doing things differently. We temporarily discontinued our onboard duty-free sales, altered the meal service to individually packed meals, disabled our touch screens and limited movement in the cabin. A year on, we have gradually and safely reintroduced some of the onboard services and continue to add new features to enhance our onboard experience.”

flydubai has introduced a complimentary inflight entertainment streaming service to its fleet of Next-Generation Boeing 737-800 aircraft earlier in May. The new innovative digital streaming solution is offered by AIRTIME, the carrier’s WiFi connectivity provider.

Commenting on the launch of the new content streaming service, Daniel Kerrison, Vice President Inflight Product at flydubai, added, “flydubai is committed to meeting the needs of its passengers. Inflight entertainment and WiFi connectivity have become an essential part of the travel experience. The new complimentary streaming service will enable more passengers to stay entertained for the duration of their flights. We will add more content in additional languages in the coming few months.”

Source: Emirates News Agency