Regional eCommerce firm and direct to consumer enabler CNNB has reported growth of 500% over the past 12 months. Established by citrussTV founder Nicolas Bruylants and former citrussTV COO Charbel Nasr, CNNB manages direct-to-consumer (DTC) operations for global and regional brands, including household names such as L’Oreal, Kerastase, Garnier and Swiss Arabian Perfumes. The announcement comes as GCC online retail is expected to surge by over 20% this year, according to research by Kearney Middle East. Speaking about CNNB’s business performance, co-founder and CEO Nicolas Bruylants, said: “Direct-to-consumer online retail should be the eCommerce strategy of choice in MENA. While…
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Jochebed Menon
Jochebed Menon is the Editor of Logistics News Middle East. She covers issues related to the logistics and supply chain industries in the region. She’s been a journalist since 2012 and has primarily worked on B2B titles in travel, hospitality, aviation, and construction.
American manufacturer of temperature control vehicles Thermo King has supplied the online grocery store Kibsons International with 80 new vans refrigerated with V-300 units. The new refrigerated vehicles will operate across Kibson’s multiple sales points, cold store facilities and meat processing plant, expanding the reach of the company’s home delivery operations across the entire country. The V-Series refrigeration units from Thermo King feature tight temperature control even with multiple delivery drops, easy to use driver interfaces and low noise, low emission operation as demanded in urban operations. The units are powered by a road compressor and an electric power supply,…
Mammoet’s new Group Commercial Officer Darren Adams is making it his mission to serve small and medium-sized businesses better than ever before – and it is more than just talk. Throughout a lifetime in heavy lifting, he’s taken on every job it has to offer – from managing continents to clambering under SPMTs “Somebody could give us a call this morning, we’ll be there this afternoon and tomorrow we’ve probably got equipment on the ground.” A bold statement from the man now leading Mammoet’s commercial activity – but one gained from a lifetime of understanding customers of all sizes. Like…
Emirates Post has opened a 33,475 sqft centre at the dedicated eCommerce free zone EZDubai in Dubai South’s Logistics District that will handle parcels and express, domestic, and international volumes. This is the company’s second largest sorting and delivery centre in the UAE. The new facility is expected to handle over 25% of total P&E business volumes over the next three years. EZDubai has all it takes to support the launch of Emirates Post’s new facility by providing its customers in the neighbouring areas with their international and domestic shipping requirements. The new facility at EZDubai strengthens Emirates Post’s position…
Integrated energy logistics firm Tristar Group has donated 150 sets of oxygen concentrators to St. Martha’s Hospital in Bengaluru, India, to support the state’s battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. Each unit donated is a compact oxygen machine that can provide respiratory therapy for those who may require five litres or less of oxygen flow. The oxygen concentrators, Respironics EverFlo, are lightweight at only 14kg, and emit less than 45 dBA. With a compact, ergonomic design that uses less space and energy, and produces less heat, the oxygen concentrators are ideal to provide some relief in India’s crowded hospitals and healthcare…
In line with ‘Make it in the Emirates’ strategy, Etihad Rail has sought to manufacture sleepers locally, as part of its plan to use many of the main components required for building the network from within the UAE. Sleepers are a vital component of the railway network, as they form the horizontal base for anchoring railway tracks, WAM reports. The company has built factories to manufacture railway sleepers locally, rather than importing them with the aim of achieving optimal efficiency in time, effort, and costs, alongside reducing the environmental impact of importing goods into the UAE. The highest quality of…
Emirates has set up a humanitarian airbridge between Dubai and India to transport urgent medical and relief items, to support India in its fight to control the serious COVID-19 situation in the country. The airline will offer cargo capacity free of charge on an ‘as available’ basis on all of its flights to nine cities in India, to help international NGOs deliver relief supplies rapidly to where it is needed. In the past weeks, Emirates SkyCargo has already been transporting medicines and medical equipment on scheduled and charter cargo flights to India. This latest airbridge initiative takes Emirates’ support for…
Ajman Free Zone (AFZ) witnessed a growth of 33% in the number of new companies registered with it during the first quarter of this year, compared with the same period of 2020. The total number of new companies registered in the free zone reached 492 during the first three months of 2021, compared to 269 companies in the same term last year. This comes as a continuation of AFZ’s solid performance during the past year, considering the growing confidence of the business community in the potential and competitiveness of Ajman. The education sector, which includes training, educational counselling, and freelancing,…
Abboud Ghanem, Regional Vice-President – Middle East & Africa, Alteryx, reveals how analytics can help the supply chain industry adapt to the future The COVID-19 pandemic had put supply chains leaders under extreme stress and forced many companies, and entire industries, to rethink and transform their global supply chain model to meet the needs of this new normal and ensure resiliency in the era of social distance working. The UAE has impressively transformed itself from a logistics hub into a supply chain nerve centre in recent years. The Dhs220 billion UAE logistics sector is expected to contribute 8% to the…
Mohammed bin Rashid Aerospace Hub at Dubai South announced that private jets movements continued their impressive growth in 2021 with a 336% increase in Q1 2021, reaching 4,904 compared to 1,460 in Q1 2020 and 1,676 in Q1 2019. Aircraft movements include the four FBOs operating at MBRAH, which are Jetex Executive Aviation, Jet Aviation, DC Aviation and ExecuJet Middle East. Tahnoon Saif, CEO of Mohammed Bin Rashid Aerospace Hub, said: “Our private jets movements at the VIP Terminal in MBRAH have been increasing steadily since last July, which is a testament to the successful national vaccination campaign. “The emirate’s…