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Archive n° 850 - 10/09/2008

Gaelle Arenson

MOROCCO

Editor in Chief

Morocco's Plastic Market a Boon to U.S.

With American exports of plastic to Morocco up by over 1,000% between 2005 and 2007 - by 1,353 percent, to be precise - the U. (...) [301 words] [$7]

LIBYA

Fresh Libya-Swiss Crisis

Laurent Paoliello, spokesman for Tamoil in Switzerland, announced on October 8 that Libya was halting oil deliveries to Switzerland. He offered no explanation. (...)

algiers

Boubaker Sidelined?

The Algerians never quite got over the fact that Morrocans won control of the Conseil Français de Culte Musulman in the association’s election in June. (...) [191 words] [$2,1]

New Impetus at Algerie Telecom

The chief executive of Algerie Telecom, Moussa Benhamadi, has launched a plan to revive the fortunes of Algerie Telecom that is due to run until next May. (...) [91 words] [$2,1]

Relations Sour Between Cevital and Orascom

Issad Rebrab, the chief executive of Cevital, and Naguib Sawiris, boss of Orascom Telecommunications, aren’t the best of pals at the moment. (...) [62 words] [$2,1]

rabat

Sijilmassi Energizes his Friends

The Moroccan embassy got back to normal business last week after the long summer break. (...) [254 words] [$2,1]

tunis

Mabrouks Lock In BIAT

The Mabrouk group has acquired a 30% holding in Banque Internationale Arabe de Tunisie (BIAT) by buying the 3% share in the establishment owned by HSBC and the nearly 7% detained by the Luxembourg-based Blakeney Investors firm. (...) [101 words] [$2,1]

Roaring Trade for Cable Manufacturers

The cable industry which counts 62 offshore cable companies - some 31 of them French - has two new production units to add to the total. (...) [68 words] [$2,1]

The Big Retail Groups

Meublatex, Neji Mhiri’ company, has opened an affiliate, Trade and Retail, with a capital of 1 m DR to work in the retail sector. (...) [88 words] [$2,1]

ECONOMICS/BUSINESS


	TUNISIA
	Mecahers
	Mecahers, a French aeronautics sub-contractor specializing in precision engineering, is to open a plant in southern Tunisia. (...) [43 words] [FREE]


	MOROCCO
	Roland Berger Strategy Consultant
	Roland Berger Strategy Consultant (France) just opened an office in Casablanca. (...) [11 words] [FREE]


	TUNISIA
	Linde Gas
	Linde Gas, a subsidiary of Germany's Linde AG that specializes in gas for industrial and domestic use, has acquired the 40% holding in Tunisie Gaz Industriel (TGI) that had been held by the firm CARTE (Compagnie d’Assurance et de Reassurance Tuniso-Europeenne), run by Hassine Doghri. (...) [61 words] [$2,1]


	TUNISIA
	Airbus
	Airbus, which relocated part of its production to Tunisia, has asked the Tunisian government to open a direct shipping service with St. (...) [35 words] [FREE]


	TUNISIA
	Koramic
	Koramic, a brick-manufacturing affiliate of Austria's Weinerberger, world leader in bricks and second-ranking maker of tiles in Europe, is in advanced talks on a project to start up operations in Tunisia. (...) [32 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	Sogreah
	Sogreah (France) has been pre-qualified by the Agence Nationale Algerienne des Ressources Hydrauliques for a contract to draw up a map of the vulnerability to underground water sheets to pollution. (...) [30 words] [FREE]


	TUNISIA
	Mazars
	Mazars, an accountancy already operating in Tunisia, is setting up shop in Libya. (...) [13 words] [FREE]


	ALGERIA
	Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc.
	Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. will manage the Meridien hotel in Oran, Algeria, again under an agreement with Sonatrach, which owns the premises. (...) [37 words] [FREE]

WHO'S WHO


	MOROCCO/UNITED STATES
	Keith Zakheim
	Recently contracted as lobbyist for the Moroccan American Center for Policy, Keith Zakheim is to implement an action plan to promote the kingdom’s image in Washington. (...) [92 words] [$2,1]


	FRANCE/LIBYA
	Alain Boutebel
	A trade-off has occurred at the French trade mission in Tripoli. (...) [61 words] [$2,1]


	FRANCE/LIBYA
	Cyrille Rogeau
	The great and the good of the Franco-Libyan business community turned out for a third lunch concerning Libya thrown by the Chambre de Commerce Franco-Libyenne (CCFL) at the Maison des Arts et Metiers in Paris on Oct. (...) [185 words] [$2,1]