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Seek to enter Middle East's rapidly expanding food and beverage markets
Dubai - A 40-member delegation of leading food and beverage companies from Japan visited Jafza earlier in the week to explore opportunities to enter the Middle East F&B markets from the free zone.
The Japanese delegation was received by Adil Al Zarooni, Senior Vice President - Jafza sales and Gota Akai, Representative - Japan Market, at the Free Zone.
Adil Al Zarooni in his welcome address underlined the strong bilateral commercial relations Jafza and Japan enjoy. In his presentation Al Zarooni highlighted key features and offerings of Jafza that have made Free Zone the trade and logistics hub for the wider Middle East region comprising West Asia, Africa and the CIS.
Al Zarooni said:
"Japan remains one of Jafza's key trade partners. The bilateral trade between the two sides crossed USD 2.7 billion in 2013 making Japan Jafza's sixth largest partner by total bilateral trade and the third largest by imports. Jafza is working with several Japanese trade promotion bodies and other institutions to further strengthen Japanese presence in the region by attracting more Japanese companies from diverse sectors including food and beverage and related segments into the Free Zone. Being the trade logistics hub for the entire region Jafza is the right place for the Japanese companies to be in, who are eyeing the rapidly growing Middle East markets.
"We invite Japanese medium and small enterprises to come to Jafza to explore opportunities in the region. Keeping this in view we have extended our full support to K2 Management Solutions, Jafza Agent in Japan, in establishing an Incubation Centre in the Free Zone for Japanese SME and other enterprises to help them explore business prospects in the region at the minimum cost."
Jafza is currently home to more than 145 leading Japanese multinationals such as Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, Hitachi, Nissan, Honda, Mitsubishi, Isuzu, Denso, Kawasho Foods (Gulf) FZE, and Carpe Diem Middle East FZE among others.
466 top multinationals in the F&B sector such as Unilever, Heinz, Kraft, P&G, PepsiCo, and Gulf Food Industries among others have chosen Jafza for their regional hub. These companies serve the wider Middle East region comprising South and West Asia, Africa and the CIS, a market with more than 2 billion people, from their Jafza base.
The visiting Japanese F&B companies are participating in Gulfood 2015 and wish to expand their operations to the Middle East region.
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About Economic Zones World (EZW)
EZW is the global provider of sustainable industrial and logistics infrastructure solutions. EZW's current portfolio includes Jafza, TechnoPark and Dubai Auto Zone.
Jafza is Economic Zones World's flagship operation. It is the region's most efficient logistics hub and the only one in the world located between a top container terminal (Jebel Ali Port) and a top international airport (Al Maktoum International Airport), enabling the best in multi-modal connectivity. Jafza is a leading driver of Dubai's non-oil trade. In 2013 the Free Zone has generated trade worth about USD 90 billion.
TechnoPark is the company's dedicated initiative in the region's core economic sectors - Water, Health, Energy, Engineering and Logistics. It focuses on nurturing business ideas/new technologies in the above fields, which could be quickly translated into real-world industrial operations.
Dubai Auto Zone (DAZ) is a comprehensive market place for the Auto Industry catering to buyers, sellers, service providers, principals and traders.
About Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza)
Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza) is one of the world's leading free zones. It is the region's most efficient logistics hub and the only one in the world located between a top container terminal (Jebel Ali Port) and a top international airport (Al Maktoum International Airport), enabling the best in multi-modal connectivity. Jafza is a leading driver of Dubai's non-oil trade. In 2013 the Free Zone has generated trade worth about USD 90 billion.
As the leading business hub of the Middle East, it focuses on long term customer relationships and fosters alliances with global investors by providing them world class infrastructure duly supported with quality driven value added services and incentives, enabling them to avail huge business opportunities in the region, in the most efficient way.
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