The change agent: Stick with the pricing if you are sure about it

When a market gets jittery, the easiest way out for a business is to drop prices and hope that sales would somehow compensate. But it is an approach fraught with risk, especially if a business is perched at the premium end of the market. In such circumstances, is a trade-off between price and sales volume […]

Top Abraaj executives Arif Naqvi and Mustafa Abdel-Wadood arrested on US fraud charges

NEW YORK: The chief executive and a managing partner of the collapsed private equity firm Abraaj Capital Ltd were arrested on U.S. charges that they defrauded their investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a federal prosecutor said on Thursday. Abraaj founder and Chief Executive Arif Naqvi was arrested in the United Kingdom last Friday, […]

EGA starts production at UAE’s first alumina refinery

Dubai: Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), one of the largest industrial companies in the UAE, announced yesterday that operations have started at its Al Taweelah alumina refinery, a project that expands the industrial giant’s business upstream in the aluminium value chain. Once full ramp-up is achieved, Al Taweelah alumina refinery is expected to produce some two […]