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Archive n° 813 - 12/13/2007

Gaelle Arenson

LIBYA

Editor in Chief

Libya’s "Friends" Among French Bosses

All of the French corporate chiefs who met with Muammar Kadhafi under his tent in Paris later attended a closed door meeting - journalists were shooed away - at the French employers federation MEDEF at the Ritz hotel, among them: (...) [288 words] [$7]

TUNISIA

Tunisia : Social Security System Endangered

The IMF issued a warning that the aging of Tunisia’s population had put the social security system under deep strain in past seven years. (...)

algiers

Sonatrach/GDF LNG Trading Agreement

Gaz de France and Sonatrach have formed an LNG trading company, MEDLNG, aimed at the American market. (...) [61 words] [$2,1]

Tassili Airlines: Expansion Plans

Tassili Airlines, a subsidiary of Sonatrach headed by Rachid Nouar, will shortly issue a call for bids for new aircraft for its fleet. (...) [69 words] [$2,1]

LG Offers Reprieve to ENIE

South Korea’s LG group and Algeria’s Entreprise Nationale de l’Industrie Electronique (ENIE) have penned a contract for the production of 150,000 television sets per year at ENIE’s complex at Sidi Bel Abbes. (...) [68 words] [$2,1]

rabat

Veolia Maroc’s Partners

As Maghreb Confidential revealed in mid-November, new partners have bought into Veolia Environnement Maroc, the new holding company that handles all of the group’s operations in the kingdom (water supply, power and sewage systems in Rabat, Sale and Tangiers-Tetouan). (...) [103 words] [$2,1]

The Gas Distribution Chiefs

Aziz Akhannouch, the boss of the Akwa group, is well known to the business public as his affiliate Afriquia Gaz has become the leader in LPG in Morocco following the acquisition of certain activities of Primagaz in 2005. (...) [107 words] [$2,1]

tunis

Trabelsi to Publish New Weekly

The tycoon Belhassen Trabelsi is to launch a new business weekly in both Arabic and French specializing in North Africa and the Middle East. (...) [92 words] [$2,1]

New Auditing Assignment on BADR

Ernst & Young Tunisie and Directway Consulting, which are headed respectively by Nourreddine Hajji and Ezzeddine Saidane, have been retained once again to conduct an audit of the Banque de l’Agriculture et du Developpement Rural. (...) [79 words] [$2,1]

tripoli

New Libyan Members of CCFL

The Libyan government has proposed a list of new Libyan representatives to serve on the Chambre de Commerce Franco-Libyenne (CCFL). (...) [153 words] [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	MOROCCO
	Best Western
	Best Western, which operates only one establishment in Casablanca, plans to build up its hotel chain in Morocco by adding 15 units by 2011, specially in Marrakech, Rabat, Casablanca, Fes, Agadir and Tangiers. (...) [33 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	Lafarge
	Lafarge (France) has laid out EUR 8.8 billion to acquire Egypt’s Orascom Cement, the leading cement maker in the Mediterranean area and particularly in Algeria. (...) [56 words] [$2,1]


	ALGERIA
	CRCEG
	CRCEG (China) has landed a EUR 100 million contract to build a stadium with 40,000 seats in Algiers. (...) [18 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	Malakoff International
	Malakoff International (Malaysia) and Hyflux (Singapore) signed a USD 251 million contract to construct a seawater desalination plant in the Tlemcen region in Algeria. (...) [53 words] [$2,1]


	MOROCCO
	CMA CGM
	CMA CGM (France) has joined forces with Switzerland’s MSC to compete with a consortium formed by Maersk of Denmark, Holland’s APM Terminals and Akwa Group owned by Morocco’s Aziz Akhannouch, for the concession to manage the number 3 container terminal in the Tangiers-Med port. (...) [72 words] [$2,1]


	MOROCCO
	Afina
	Afina, an information services company originally based in Spain, is to open an affiliate at El Jadida in Morocco. (...) [47 words] [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO


	FRANCE
	Alain Gauvin
	A former partner in the Reinhardt Marville Torre (RMT) law firm, Alain Gauvin, joined Lefevre Pelletier & Associaes (LPA) in mid-October, where he will cover North Africa. (...) [94 words] [$2,1]


	FRANCE/MOROCCO
	Bernard Digoit
	Bernard Digoit, the boss of Hysca, a continuing education concern based in Montpellier, has been named president of the Chambre Francaise de Commerce et d’Industrie du Maroc (CFCIM) in succession to Jean-Luc Martinet. (...) [68 words] [$2,1]


	MOROCCO
	Robert Azoulay
	The boss of Conseil Strategie Development (CSD), Robert Azoulay, is expected to finalize his Domaine Royal Palm Marrakech project by the end of 2009. (...) [101 words] [$2,1]


	MOROCCO
	Abdelhadi Khairate
	A former teacher and ex-legislator from the USFP party who lost his seat in the last elections, Abdelhadi Khairate, has been named publisher of two Socialist dailies, Al Ittihad al Ichtiraki, and its French-language counterpart Liberation. (...) [75 words] [$2,1]