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ADNOC Distribution 2025 dividend $700m

The company had reported EBITDA of $1.17 bn in 2025.

Empower okays $119.1m H2 2025 dividend

The dividend is equivalent to 43.75% of paid-up capital.

Alujain widens 2025 loss

The increase in loss is due to impairment charges, weaker prices.

Masar 2025 net profit $262m

Higher land plot sales boost revenue and operating income.

Tasnee’s 2025 losses deepen

The petrochemicals' company's revenue also fell 17.7 percent.
  • UAE accounts for 77% of GCC investments in Latin America over 2016-2021

    Saudi Arabia accounted for 22 percent of GCC investments to Latin America during 2016-2021, followed by Qatar with 1 percent.

    Saudi Arabia accounted for 22 percent of GCC investments to Latin America during 2016-2021, followed by Qatar with 1 percent

    The report, titled Cultivating Ties: Deepening trade and investment between Latin America and the GCC, was issued ahead of the Global Business Forum Latin America 2022

  • Pandemic aided digital adoption by UAE businesses: PayPal survey

    Survey analyses the impact of COVID-19 on small businesses, the key verticals of growth and the growing acceptance of digital...

    Survey analyses the impact of COVID-19 on small businesses, the key verticals of growth and the growing acceptance of digital payments

    With adoption of digitalization, 41 percent of the respondents have seen increased purchases through social media channels

  • Sustainability key challenge for UAE realty players

    It is hard to balance sustainable developments and what people want in the market, especially when it comes to pricing,...

    Designing a building, putting up construction plans in terms of materials until the demolition are responsibilities of a sustainable property developer

    The real estate market in Dubai had a 65 percent increase in the number of transactions and a 71 percent increase in value in 2021.

  • alfanar invests $1.3bn in UK

    The money will go in producing aviation fuel from waste.

    The Lighthouse Green Fuel project generates more than 180 million liters of sustainable aviation fuel annually in the UK

    This amount of sustainable aviation fuel is sufficient to power 15,000 flights per year, reducing harmful carbon emissions from conventional fuels by over 700,000 tons annually

  • Dubai SMEs bag contracts worth $250m under procurement program

    Emirati entrepreneurs and national enterprises in Dubai won contracts worth AED 921.6 million ($250 million) from various local and federal...

    Since 2002, GPP has facilitated contracts worth over AED 8.4 billion for Dubai SME members from 69 supporting entities across the government, semi-government and private sectors.

    Expo 2020 Dubai topped the list of local government support agencies of GPP last year with contracts worth AED 161.7 million.

  • Egypt hosts UAE and Israel leaders for three-way talks

    Egypt hosted the Israeli and UAE leaders for unprecedented three-way talks Tuesday as the Ukraine war rocks energy and food...

    The meeting, which took place in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, included discussions on "energy, market stability, and food security"

    The first three-way summit of its kind comes at a crucial time for the Middle East after Russia's invasion of Ukraine sparked concerns about stability and sent commodity prices up

  • Vietnam experts see Middle East as promising market for country’s exporters

    Vietnam has signed economic, trade and scientific-technological cooperation agreements with five GCC countries.

    Vietnam has mostly traded with six member nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council in the Middle East region.

    Trade between Vietnam and the GCC countries has surged from US$2.7 billion in 2012 to US$12.5 billion in 2021.

  • Tabreed to pay highest ever dividend

    The payout will be in the form of cash and bonus shares.

    The firm said the shareholders will get a cash dividend of six fils per share and a bonus of one share for every 40 shares held, which is equivalent to 12 fils per share.

    Last year, group revenue increased by 12 percent to 1.95 billion dirhams ($530 million), while net income grew 6.3 percent to 585 million dirhams.

  • Libya restarts domestic flights after two-week shutdown

    Libyan authorities reopened the war-torn country's skies for domestic flights on Tuesday, an aviation official said, two weeks after they...

    Flights between Mitiga and other Libyan airports had been suspended since March 7, after the country's eastern-based parliament appointed a rival government

    The United Nations and Western officials had called repeatedly for the airspace to be reopened

  • Tesla to open Berlin factory

    Elon Musk to hand over first 'made in Germany' Model Y car.

    The electric car maker will inaugurate its new "gigafactory" near Berlin an arduous two-year approval and construction process.

    Tesla aims to eventually employ some 12,000 workers at the site who will churn out around 500,000 Model Y cars annually.