A customer base of more than 100,000 gives this deal more weight than a typical market entry. For Brisk Gains Finance, the acquisition of a profitable Dubai-based perfume company is less about fragrance retail and more about building an SME investment platform in the UAE. The firm, founded by 24-year-old entrepreneur Yash Thakkar, has made … Read more
For Australian FMCG manufacturers, the gap between those who have already automated and those still running labour-heavy production lines is widening faster than most operations managers want to admit. Rising input costs, constrained margins, and a domestic retail environment that rewards volume efficiency over manual process have pushed automation from capital project to competitive necessity. … Read more
Property transactions worth 3.3 billion Omani rials in a single year tell you something concrete about where capital is flowing in the Gulf. Starting May 10, the industry gathering that wants to channel that momentum into the next decade of Omani development opens its doors in Muscat. Oman Design & Build Week 2026 brings together … Read more
Small and mid-sized retailers inside Sharjah’s shopping malls may soon operate under a very different set of conditions — flexible leases, climate-resilient infrastructure, and wellness-aligned tenant strategies that look nothing like traditional mall management. The Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry convened an expanded meeting with the Shopping Malls Sector Business Group to review how … Read more
Wood-based fibre technology has been inching toward commercial scale for years. Spinnova’s decision to begin trial runs at the Woodspin demo factory in Jyväskylä, Finland signals that the gap between pilot promise and production reality is now being tested under genuine operating conditions. I’ve been tracking this company’s scaling trajectory closely, and the April 9, … Read more
