Al Tayer Trends And MIF Inc. Open MORE Cafe At Dubai Mall

Al Tayer Trends, the lifestyle retail company of the Al Tayer Group, in conjunction with mOre – Intelligent Foods Inc, have opened a new MORE Cafe at Dubai Mall on the lower ground level, overlooking the Lake Fountain.The 7,500 square feet café, which includes indoor and outdoor dining areas, is the first franchise store of the popular home-grown concept. Al Tayer Trends is now the exclusive franchisee of all upcoming MORE Cafés in the GCC.Speaking at the opening of the store, Guillaume Motte, CEO, Al Tayer Trends said “MORE Café is a welcome addition to our growing portfolio of high-quality food and beverage brands. MORE Café is one of the leading Dubai-based café brands and we look forward to replicate its success at select locations across the UAE and the GCC.”Award-winning MORE Café is the brainchild of a Dutch partnership whose combined experience span more than 45 years of international exposure within a multi-faceted range of different hospitality environments. The concept mirrors the fruition of this partnership’s creativity, passion and awareness for understanding sustainable food trends within an aesthetically balanced and comfortable interior. This gives MORE Cafe its appeal and identity.“We are excited to partner with Al Tayer Trends and expand the operations of MORE Café,” said Wouter Lap, Managing Partner, MORE Café. “Al Tayer Trends is a fast-growing company and is well known for its passionate embrace of the brands it represents. We look forward to working together with them to provide customers with the signature MORE Café experience at more locations.”MORE Café at Dubai Mall offers customers a view of the Lake Fountain as well as the Burj Dubai. The store is open from 0800 hrs until 2300 hrs daily.All MORE cafés offer an e-menu option which enables customers to place their order online at http://www.MOREcafe.biz so that their meal is ready to be served when they arrive at the café 

Dubai Airport Freezone wins ’Best Environmental Initiative Award’ from Arab Institute for Urban Development in Middle East

The Dubai Airport Freezone has won the Best Environmental Initiative award in property management at the just concluded Kingdom Expansion Congress 2009 held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Organisers said the event was a huge success with over 350 participants attending from across the globe from various industry sectors. The opening ceremony incorporated a Gala Kingdom Expansion Awards function that honoured leaders in the public and private sector from the region.Dubai Airport Freezone was honoured for “Ensuring the preservation of environmental sustainability in 2009” during a ceremony organized by the Arab Institute for Urban Development in Saudi Arabia, to celebrate the successful Arab projects and companies working in the fields of infrastructure, construction.Engineer Adel Ghafan, Executive Director of Engineering Section, received the award on behalf of the Freezone. He was accompanied by Abdel-Hameed Al Marzouqi, the Director of Projects. Engineer Ghafan said “This is one of the most important awards that encourage us to promote and apply the concepts of environmental sustainability in the property, facilities and services management.”He also noted that building projects that meet sustainability criteria “Is mandatory to provide the best investment climates for the companies, especially global ones.” The environment, cleanliness and maintenance are the most important conditions on which companies depend when selecting their operation sites.He added that this award is a welcome addition to the other awards received by the Freezone during the past years which consistently upheld high quality standards.Other awards and citations received by the Dubai Airport Freezone in the past were the ISO Award, FDI Magazine Award for the “Fastest economic free zone to attract companies,” and the MELA award for “Best Airport Free Zone in the Middle East” for two consecutive years (2006 and 2007), among others. He said that consistently winning awards year after year was due to the tireless efforts by the Department of Strategy and its “excellence in translating our commitment into best practices in environmental conservation and pollution prevention and others with respect to our facilities in the airport free zone.”In his acceptance speech, Mr. Ghafan thanked the Saudi officials and the Arab authority for Urban Development for their unique initiative to promote private and public institutions to foster excellence in performance and implementation of projects.Ibrahim Turki, the Executive Director of the Arab Institute for Urban Development, said "The main objective of celebrating private and public enterprises for their excellent performance is to promote a climate of success in economic activities and higher levels of performance, which is reflected positively on overall economic activity in our Arabic and Muslim countries."The winners were chosen by an independent panel of judges selected from the Middle Eastern infrastructure development and academic sectors. The information provided by nominees in response to questions listed on the nomination form was used in the judgement process. Nominees were scored on the basis of a pre-set criterion.“This has produced satisfactory results with a number of deserving Arab companies winning the awards; Bin Laden Group has won the award for the “Best Developer of Infrastructure,” while Dallat Albaraka was awarded with the “The Best Company in the Private Sector award, and the Qatar Science Oasis was the winner of the award for “Best Achievement.”The award for “Best Construction Firm,” was won by Arabtec and the Dubai Metro project was awarded the largest project in the region.