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Maghreb Confidential /Archives

Archive n° 722 - 12/22/2005

Gaelle Arenson

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Editor in Chief

Tunisian Investors Flock to Algeria

Tunisian businessmen are making every effort to keep their head start as the leading North African investors in the Algerian economy, with over 30 projects completed or on the boil. (...) [283 words] [$4.7]

MOROCCO

Morocco: Subsidies to be phased out?

To help meet a runaway oil bill reaching DR40 billion this year, Rabat is thinking of putting a halt to subsidies, including those on sugar and flour. (...)

algiers

Benfils Back in Good Odor

The former head of the FLN who was defeated in the April, 2004 presidential election, Ali Benflis now lives in a house in Algiers provided for him by the president’s office, along with bodyguards. (...) [35 words] [FREE]

Berrahal Moves on Sugar Market

The Berrahal group is building a sugar refinery with a capacity of 400,000 tons per year in Oran. (...) [54 words] [$1.5]

Which Banks Won’t Meet March Deadline?

Algeria’s private banks such as Arco Bank, Mouna Bank and others have until the end of the month to increase their registered capital to DR 2. (...) [60 words] [$1.5]

rabat

US/Morocco: Free Trade a One-Way Street?

The U.S-Morocco free trade agreement will come into force on Jan. (...) [74 words] [$1.5]

French Market Share Advances

French companies can take heart as the year 2005 comes to an end. (...) [96 words] [$1.5]

Privatisation Slowdown Prompts Strategy Shift

Morocco will earn only 4.5 billion from privatizations next year, according to the finance ministry, as opposed to 13 billion in 2005. (...) [139 words] [$1.5]

tunis

Doghri and Ben Jamaa Join Forces

An alliance between the Bechir Doghri and Bechir Ben Janaa groups seems to be taking concrete form. (...) [121 words] [$1.5]

Mechri Launches New Monthly

Hedi Mechri, owner of the monthly magazine Le Manager and L’Economiste Maghrebin, which comes out twice a month, is planning to publish a new magazine entitled Temps et Loisir (Time and Leisure). (...) [33 words] [FREE]

tripoli

Coca Cola’s Local Supplier

According to our sources, one of Muammar Kadhafi’s sons, Mohamed el Kadhafi, who is active in telecommunications, will shortly open the first plant producing Coca Cola in Libya in conjunction with Coca Cola Egypt. (...) [67 words] [$1.5]

French Show the Flag

A slight disappointment was in store for French businessmen who traveled with Medef International to Libya between Dec. (...) [100 words] [$1.5]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	MOROCCO
	Hudson Marine Management Services
	Hudson Marine Management Services has been contracted by Morocco’s Agence Special Tanger-Mediterranee to provide technical assistance to see that the future port complies with international SIPS, C-TPAT and CSI security standards. (...) [47 words] [$1.5]


	ALGERIA
	Agence Nationale Algerienne des Barrages et TransferTs
	Agence Nationale Algerienne des Barrages et TransferTs (ANBT), the Algerian dam authority, has a new boss, Hasen Boutaghou. (...) [34 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	Office Nationale Algerienne des Commercialisation de Produits Vitivinicoles
	Office Nationale Algerienne des Commercialisation de Produits Vitivinicoles is shortly to be partly privatized by the government ONCV corners nearly 80% of wine-growing and alcoholic beverage distribution in Algeria. (...) [30 words] [FREE]


	TUNISIA
	Data Group
	Data Group (India) is going to build an information technology development center in Tunisia with the Teinert-Databox group. (...) [34 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	IPSOS
	IPSOS, a French polling agency, has been asked by Algeria’s leading mobile telephone company, Dzezzy, to conduct a survey on what Algerians want in the way of new mobile services. (...) [31 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	Brown & Root - Condor
	Brown & Root - Condor, which is 51% owned by Sonatrach and 49% by Halliburton, will shortly enjoy preferential terms from Banque Exterieur d’Algerie. (...) [45 words] [FREE]

WHO'S WHO


	ALGERIA
	Rafik Khalifa
	The disgraced millionaire Rafik Khalifa could well return to Algiers. (...) [63 words] [$1.5]


	LIBYA
	Mohamed Salah El Mansouri
	A leading businessman and chairman of the Libyan Businessmen Council, Mohamed Salah El Mansouri, is seeking to build up the cereals sector in Libya. (...) [128 words] [$1.5]


	MOROCCO
	Abdellatif Hamouchi
	King Mohammed VI has named a new director at the security agency Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST). (...) [68 words] [$1.5]


	TUNISIA
	Belhassen Trabelsi
	. The brother in law of Libya’s first lady, Leila Ben Ali, Belhassen Trabelsi has big plans for Egypt and is thinking of moving there. (...) [84 words] [$1.5]