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MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°937 - 02/09/2010 COMPANIES
CCDEFA

CCDEFA (Chambre de Commerce pour le Developpement des Entreprises Francaises en Algerie) is the new name of the French section of the defunct Chambre Francaise de Commerce et d'Industrie (CFCIA) and it is organizing a seminar in Paris on Sept. (...) [111 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°937 - 02/09/2010 COMPANIES
LMS Confort

LMS Confort, a retail network for Tunisian electronic goods, will shortly go out of business. (...) [74 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°937 - 02/09/2010 COMPANIES
Oradist

Oradist, the official distributor of Oracle in Tunisia, plans to build a new headquarters with a floor space of 4,000 sq. (...) [82 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°936 - 26/08/2010 COMPANIES
RAMSA

RAMSA (Regie Autonome Multi-Services d'Agadir), has just issued two calls for bids for the construction of a primary water purification plant and an outflow to carry waste to the sea. (...) [99 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°936 - 26/08/2010 COMPANIES
Strabag

Strabag, an Austrian building company, has won a USD 133 million contract to upgrade the motorway between Gura, some 60 km east of Tripoli, and Ras Ajdir on the Tunisian border. (...) [104 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°935 - 22/07/2010 COMPANIES
Algerie Telecom

Algerie Telecom is seeking out French equipment manufacturers. The state-owned Algerian operator is upgrading its network and buying WiMax, Wifi systems and the like. (...) [68 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°935 - 22/07/2010 COMPANIES
Princess El Materi Holding

Princess El Materi Holding, a company owned by Sakher El Materi, the increasingly prominent son in law of president Zine el Abedine Ben Ali, has confirmed its interest in desalination. (...) [111 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°935 - 22/07/2010 COMPANIES
Preferred Hotel Group

Preferred Hotel Group, an American luxury hotel chain, will shortly set up shop in Tunisia. (...) [50 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°934 - 15/07/2010 COMPANIES
Dyas BV

Dyas BV, a Dutch oil exploration and production company, has discreetly moved into Tunisia's offshore. (...) [80 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°934 - 15/07/2010 COMPANIES
EADS

EADS,Rohde & Schwarz and Carl Zeiss have banded together in a consortium to produce electronic sub-systems for the defense industry in Algeria. (...) [79 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°933 - 08/07/2010 COMPANIES
China Fishery Group Ltd

China Fishery Group Ltd, an industrial fisheries group listed on the Singapore stock exchange since 2006, wants to extend its international operations, particularly in Morocco and Mauritania. (...) [77 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°933 - 08/07/2010 COMPANIES
German GeoConsultants Group

German GeoConsultants Group (3G) is to market Rapideye satellite images in Tunisia and Libya. (...) [88 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°933 - 08/07/2010 COMPANIES
Solartech Sud

Solartech Sud, a firm founded by former minister Ahmed Friaa to build the solar village of Zarzis, in southern Tunisia (MC 913), is attracting the interest of major corporations. (...) [109 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°932 - 01/07/2010 COMPANIES
Boston Consulting Group

Boston Consulting Group (BCG), an American consultancy, discreetly inaugurated a bureau in Casablanca in April. (...) [76 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°932 - 01/07/2010 COMPANIES
OPIC

OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corp.), an agency linked to the U. (...) [126 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°931 - 24/06/2010 COMPANIES
IMCD

IMCD, a Dutch group that markets chemical goods used in the pharmaceutical and agribusinesses trades (it has annual sales of EUR 925 million) is to build a plant in the industrial zone of Megrine in Tunisia. (...) [85 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°931 - 24/06/2010 COMPANIES
IOS Partners

IOS Partners, an engineering company based in Florida, is to conduct a study on the cold chain in the fisheries industry in Morocco. (...) [74 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°931 - 24/06/2010 COMPANIES
TFCE Group

TFCE Group (Tuniso-Francaise de Commerce Exterieur) is fast gaining momentum. (...) [94 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°930 - 17/06/2010 COMPANIES
Swicorp

Swicorp has carried out its first merger and acquisition operation in Tunisia by assisting in the sale of Topnet to Tunisie Telecom (see Page 3). (...) [130 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°930 - 17/06/2010 COMPANIES
Mashreqbank

Mashreqbank (United Arab Emirates) and five other establishments - Qatar Islamic Bank, Britain’s Standard Chartered and HSBC, Italy’s UniCredit and Emirates NBD PJSC - are still in talks with Libya’s central bank which is to grant two new licences to operate in Libya. (...) [73 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°937 - 02/09/2010 COMPANIES
Renault

Renault has issued a call for volunteers at several of its plants in France to help flesh out the work force at its new plant in Tangiers. (...) [65 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°937 - 02/09/2010 COMPANIES
BMCE Bank

BMCE Bank in Morocco has written to us following our article entitled "BMCE Bank in Palace’s or Qatar’s Hands? (...) [109 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°936 - 26/08/2010 COMPANIES
Maille Club

Maille Club plans to set up a shop in the “holiday village” that Sakher el Materi is currently building across from the port of La Goulette near Tunis, to play host to tourists during stopovers of cruise liners. (...) [126 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°936 - 26/08/2010 COMPANIES
Leal Santos Company

Leal Santos Company, a Brazilian company controlled by the Spanish concern Actemsa and Jealsa Rianxeira, Spain’s second-ranking fisheries concern, is going to inaugurate a conservation plant for Moroccan sardines in Brazil. (...) [49 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°936 - 26/08/2010 COMPANIES
USTDA

USTDA (United States Trade Development Agency) plans to call on an American consultancy to assist Morocco's Direction de la Meteorologie Nationale (DMN) to improve its anti-flood system in the Sebou basin. (...) [65 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°935 - 22/07/2010 COMPANIES
Titagarh

Titagarh, an Indian manufacturer of freight cars, bridges and mining equipment, is thinking of opening a plant in Tunisia, according to our sources. (...) [84 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°935 - 22/07/2010 COMPANIES
Hyundai Engineering and Construction

Hyundai Engineering and Construction has just been awarded a USD 1. (...) [51 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°934 - 15/07/2010 COMPANIES
Axia Fx Ltd

Axia Fx Ltd, a British company specializing in foreign exchange and international bank payments, has become the partner of Morocco’s BMCE in Britain. (...) [100 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°934 - 15/07/2010 COMPANIES
STPCM

STPCM (Societe Tunisienne de Pneumatiques et de Caoutchouc Manufacture) has run into cash flow problems. (...) [106 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°934 - 15/07/2010 COMPANIES
One Tech

One Tech, a Tunisian industrial group headed by Moncef Sellami which makes cables, plastic goods and electronic components, is to start manufacturing medium and high voltage cables. (...) [41 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°933 - 08/07/2010 COMPANIES
Essilor

Essilor, the world's leading manufacturer of prescription glasses, is thinking of setting up a production unit in Tunisia, according to our sources. (...) [74 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°933 - 08/07/2010 COMPANIES
Autoroutes du Maroc

Autoroutes du Maroc (ADM) could win backing from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to build a 172 km motorway between Berrechid and Beni Mellal. (...) [65 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°932 - 01/07/2010 COMPANIES
Doremail-Artemail

Doremail-Artemail, which manufactures Tunisian tiles and ceramics, has just cracked the market in Libya. (...) [70 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°932 - 01/07/2010 COMPANIES
Fairvalue Corporate & Public Affairs

Fairvalue Corporate & Public Affairs wants to shortly organize an encounter between businessmen, leading politicians and financial services officials in order to inject fresh economic impetus into the Union for the Mediterranean. (...) [82 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°932 - 01/07/2010 COMPANIES
Tunisian International Textile

Tunisian International Textile is a new clothing concern just inaugurated by Anissa El Materi. (...) [63 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°931 - 24/06/2010 COMPANIES
Hotels & Clubs

Hotels & Clubs, a hotel management concern founded in France by Mohamed Adel Oueslati and Tahar Khadraoui, is setting up operations in Tunisia. (...) [86 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°931 - 24/06/2010 COMPANIES
Urbanos

Urbanos, a Portuguese logistics company, is seeking a Moroccan partner to help establish its first platform in Morocco at Casablanca. (...) [57 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°930 - 17/06/2010 COMPANIES
Ennakl

Ennakl, a car dealership (Volkswagen, Porsche, etc. (...) [139 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°930 - 17/06/2010 COMPANIES
Sagem

Sagem will relocate production of its high speed terminals currently produced at Mouguerre in south-east France to Tunisia before the end of the year. (...) [65 words] [$1.8]

MAGHREB CONFIDENTIAL n°929 - 10/06/2010 COMPANIES
CP Design

CP Design, a French concept design firm specializing in department stores, is helping Numidis, an affiliate of Issad Rebrab’s Cevital group, to design its first Uno hypermarket. (...) [99 words] [$1.8]

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