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Te Mirror o the Omani Economy


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"Various parts of the Sultanate have absorbed many national workers and

the private sector has proved its cooperation in shouldering the responsibilityas it assumed a tangible role in cooperating with the government and boosting

sustainable development efforts. We are looking forward to a greater role to

be played by the private sector in the future, particularly in the field of the

development of human resources.

We are looking with satisfaction at the efforts made by the government during

the recent past in implementing our directives to employ thousands of our sonsand daughters in the civil, security and military sectors, and we could also like

to express our appreciation for the efforts made by the private sector in this

important domain".

From the Royal Speech delivered by

His Majesty Sultan Qaboos on the occasion of the inauguration of the

Council of Oman on 31/10/2011


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Al Roya is a comprehensive business newspaper which adopts amoderate media approach. As a private newspaper relying on its

editorial policy, freedom of speech in the Sultanate and the elevated

ceiling of constructive criticism.

It also relies on the awareness of the Omani journalists and adopts only

robust and transparent media that mirror concerns particularly the ignored

ones. Al Roya works diligently to ll the information gap that exists in

different aspects particularly the businesses and nancial sectors. AlRoya has pledged itself from the very beginning to raise the level of

economic awareness, and establish a state of movement in the association

by implementing novel and robust content, delivered to the reader in a

new style that will inevitably lead him to active thinking, speculation and

interaction with his newspaper. One of the focal points and top priorities

of Al Roya is the daily concerns, grievances, aspirations, dreams and

dilemmas of people. Quality editorial work and reporting providers the

reader with facts and information that have not been exaggerated or

embellished. Moreover, Al Roya has dedicated itself to be the pulse that

actually gauges the pangs associated with new developments, concerns

and hardships in the Omani arena. Al Roya abides strictly by the accuracy

policy of tracking news using all means available, and avoids following

rumors, superstitions and predictions. Al Roya adopts an objective policy

removed from exaggeration, overstatement or news fabrication.to create

a clear-cut distinction between news and opinions as well as between an

announcement and editorial materials. One of the axioms that Al Roya

believes in is the adherence to total transparency, avoiding the obliterationof facts and defending the reader's rights to knowledge in addition to the

right to reply and comment on what is being published in the newspaper

as well as putting the news from the Omani street in its list of priorities.

About Al Roya


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Programme

Number Event Approx1 Welcome speech by Iman bint Al Sa Al

Huraibi a journalist at Al Roya Newspaper7:30

2 An introductory lm (Al Roya, A mirror of theOmani economy)

7:35-7:40

3 Al Roya, a Story, a Success, a Partnership in

Economic Development, by Hatim bin HamadAl Taie, Editor in Chief

7:40-8:00

4 Experiences of a young entrepreneur 8:00-8:15

5 The Speech of the Assessment Committee byDr. Nasser bin Rashid AL Mowaly

8:15-9:10

6 Presentation of the Awards 9:15

7 Dinner


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Editor- in- Chiefs Speech.

Mirroring theEconomic Media

The print media plays a pivotal role in stimulating and supporting the diversityof activities in all aspects of life. Since its inception as the rst businessnewspaper in the Sultanate, Al Roya has pledged itself to play pioneering andunconventional roles in our media message and our communty particularlyin the business community. Thanks to Allah, Al Roya has achieved a lot in

various elds during the rst two years of its professional life, and now as wemove into our third year, it offers a pioneering initiative represented by TheAl Roya Business Award. It is an initiative which conforms to our enlightenedapproach adopted since the rst issue. Apropos, it pledges all it resources andcapability in the service of the community based on the belief that loving thecountry requires putting forth creative and innovative initiatives to contributeto supporting its advancement and development. It is an integral part ofpaying back, in kind, for this country, its pioneers and innovative peoplein all business elds. This has made it essential for us to honour all those

who offered creative and innovative methods to help develop this country.There are many of these elite people in our country. The initiative aimsto highlight the achievements of businesses both in the private and publicsectors based on the partnership of community building. We need to share inthe success of these enterprises, circulating their experiences and narratingstories of the hardships they encountered at the start of their projects. Theway to success is steeped with strenuous challenges. All such challenges canbe overcome by a strong will, determination and systematic management.Our Omani community is full of success stories which need to be recognized

as well as honoured and used so that we share their experiences, and createsuccessful role models to be adopted by the youth in their pursuit of successand in serving the community. A question which may trouble some peopleis: What has the media to do with all these issues?Our reply to this question is that the media is a mirror of community andis intrinsically assigned to this task and much more. The initiative aims toestablish a professional culture to support and raise awareness of Omanseconomy and provide role models to encourage young entrepreneurs, withinthe framework of small and medium enterprises, to promote SMEs


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It is a quality initiative to explore successful developmental enterprise

and to honour its owners and managers as well as identifying its creative

ideas, conducted by Al Roya Press and Publishing House represented

by Al Roya Newspaper for the purpose of enhancing the role of the

local media in supporting the Omani economy. Furthermore, the award

focuses on the Omani economy and pioneers through encouraging

the entrepreneurs of economic and commercial enterprises as well as

appraising their efforts. The award aims to establish economic business

models brought to the scene whether by male or female entrepreneurs

and set such models as successful national models to be adopted in the

development of the Omani economy.

About the Award

Objectives o the Award

To hone the skills of Omani business entrepreneurs and commercialenterprises owners, in an attempt to encourage them to develop their

businesses.

To contribute towards improving the skills of male and female

entrepreneurs and developing enterprises.

To contribute towards creating business entrepreneurs for

establishments adopting sustainability in its projects.

Introducing models of success.

Interacting with the Sultanate's trend and strategy of diversifying the

income resources. Identifying the role of local media in supporting the national income

and introducing the different economic opportunities and sectors.

Enhancing the role of media in leveraging the specialized media in the

Sultanate by supporting business entrepreneurs and commercial

enterprises.

Exchanging expertise and ideas among entrepreneurs and commercial

enterprises.


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Awards Standards

The availability of a written plan for the company.

The availability of a marketing plan.

Capabilities of the management staff such as (their academic

qualications, training courses, past research studies, scientic

researches, proposals, publications and years of experience). The level of innovation .

The project must be successful in terms of

Annual prot.

Omanization ratio.

Community service and social responsibility

Main Awards

Al Roya Award for the best business enterprise (Government

Sector).

Al Roya Award for the best business enterprise (Public Sector) .

Al Roya Award for the best business enterprise (Individuals).

Al Roya Award for the best small and medium enterprises.


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Assessment CommitteeConsists of a group of academic, economic, social and media experts

who have made prominent contributions in the eld of business and

economics. The committee consists of the following members:

Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdullah Al Harthy Chairman of the Omani

Economic Association

Dr. Salah Abdurrahman Al Talib Economist

Dr. Nasir bin Rashed Al Mowaly Academic

Mr. Hatim bin Hamad AL Taie Editor-in-Chief of

Al Roya Newspaper

Mr. Ahmed bin Saeed Kshoob Economic Expert

Mr. Abdullah bin Saeed Al Shaeily Head of News Oman TV

Miss. Iman bint Al Saf Al Huraibi Journalist at

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Chairman of the Omani Economic Association. He is an economic expert and consultant. He

graduated with a BA in Business Administration and Accounting from the United States of America

in 1979. He was also awarded a Masters Degree in Economics from

the United States of America in 1981. He participated in the work of

several government committees, seminars and conferences held in

various countries around the world.

He holds the Medal of Good Civil Service Appreciation - 1st

class, awarded in 1990. He is Author of the Oman Encyclopedia -

Condential Documents - 6 Volumes issued by Arab Unity Studies

Centre - Beirut, in 2007. He is a translator of Al Mudarib and Ibra

Book Two models of the traditional Omani city. He participated

in the membership and the chairmanship of the boards of many

companies. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Arab

Organization for Translation - Beirut. A member of the Founding

Committee of the Federation of Arab Translators Beirut, a member

of the Federation of Arab translators - Beirut. Member of the

Management Development Forum. Member of Founding Committee

of Omani Economic Association, a member of the Founding Committee of the Gulf Economic

Association, a Board member of the Gulf Economic Association, Bahrain.

Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Harthy

Mohammed bin Abdullahbin Hamad Al-Harthy

Dr. Salah Al alibHe is an economic and nance market expert in the Capital Market Authority. He assumed

many positions in the nance and banking sectors during the period from 1971 to 1992 inthe Republic of Iraq and Bahrain. He also worked as an instructor of nance and banking

management for 20 years in various academic institutions and universities. He participated in

scientic research in a number of local, regional and international conferences during the period

from 1977 up to the present day. He worked in banking management,

nance analysis, stock market, nancial crisis management

and international economy. Moreover, he managed a number

of university level scientic seminars and a number of TV and

radio seminars in elds related to capital market, nance analysis,

international economy, nancial crisis management and banking

management. He has published more than 40 studies and articles

in a number of newspapers and scientic magazines specialized andnon-specialized in banking management, international economy,

capital market, nancial analysis and management.

He assumed various managerial posts during the period from

1976 to the present day some of which are deputy manager of the

Gulf International Bank / Bahrain during the period from 1976 to

1983, Assistant General Manager, Al Aradin Bank, Iraq during the

period from 1984 until 1990, Faculty Assistant Dean, Al Hadba University, Iraq during the period

from 1998 until 2001, Finance and Banking Section Chief, Jarash University, Jordan during the

period from 2003 until 2006, Insurance Committee Member at Oman Chamber of Commerce

and Industry.

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Dr. Nasir bin Rashid Al Mowaly

Hatim bin Hamad Al Taie

He is an Associate Professor in Economy at the Finance and

Economy Department, Sultan Qaboos University. He assumed theposition of Chief of the Academic Group at the Indian Ocean Rim

Association for Regional Cooperation. He is a Board Member and

one of the founders of the Omani Economic Association. He is a

professional member in the American Economic Association. He is

one of the external observers at the Omani Accreditation Council,

a member of the Omani Network for Quality, a member of the

Consultation Council of the Colleges of Applied Sciences, a member

of the Board of Trustees for Oman College for Administration and

Technology, an expert in licensing the academic programmes of the

Ministry of Higher Education. He held the position of an expert at

the Court of Appeal in the Sultanate. He participated in the OmaniEncyclopedia by writing about Omani international commerce.

His studies tackled the specialty of trade and economy inux,

intellectual property rights and economical growth. Many of his

articles were published and he presented a number of his research

papers at many local and international conferences. Furthermore, he

was assigned to assess a number of scientic journals and seminars

and was presented with many awards.

Hatim al Taie, is the founder and editor-in-chief of Al Roya,

Omans rst in depth business daily newspaper. He established

Al Roya Press and Publishing House in 1994, publishing books in

English and Arabic specialising in Omans history, culture, travel

and the environment as well several monthly magazines.

He graduated from the University of Rabat, Morocco, with aBachelor of Law degree and followed this with a Masters degree in

International Law from the New York University, USA.

He has contributed articles to various periodicals in the eld

of art and culture, and continues to do so. He has been invited to

lecture at various seminars and conferences, with both a local and

international presence.

Hatim bin HamadAl aie

Dr. Nasir bin RashidAl Mowaly


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Ahmed bin Saeed Kshoob

Abdullah bin Said Al Sheily

Ahmed bin SaeedKshoob

He is the CEO of Trust International for Investment, a board

member of Muscat Capital Market Authority, board member ofthe Financial Intermediary Association, an accredited trainer at the

Ministry of Manpower, an accredited trainer of human resources,

manager of Maharat Centre for Human Resources, a lecturer for

some programmes and courses held at the Ministry of Commerce

and Industry and a presenter of the market economy radio

programme. He has 25 years of experience and an MA in business

management.

He holds a Bachelor degree in Arabic Language and Literature

from Sultan Qaboos University. He works as the news director of

the Sultanate of Oman TV and he is also the announcer of political

and economic programmes in the same entity. Al Sheily has eleven

years of experience in preparing and delivering programmes most

notably the Economic Vision.

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Miss Iman bint Sa Al Huraibi

A human resources specialist at Sultan Qaboos School

(10-1) Diwan of Royal court. She has 5 years experience

in media and public relations. She works as a Media and

Public Relations Ofcer at Dhofar University. She obtained

her BA in English Language and Literature from Sultan

Qaboos University, and currently she is pursuing her higher

education in English Pedagogy.

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Names of

participants in

Al Roya

Business Award


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1. Oman Medical Specialty Board (OMSB) (Omani Medical Simulation Centre )

It was established as the rst Omani medical simulation centre to support all

types of educational and medical institutions, public and private hospitals inaddition to physicians under training. It provides training opportunities on the

latest medical simulation systems for physicians particularly the specialties

with high risk such as emergency medicine and intensive care units, surgeons,

gynaecologists and delivery specialists in a simulative

environment that reects the real role of a physician

in such specialties under critical situations without

endangering the lives of patients. The importance of

the centre relies on providing educational opportunities

on advanced medical training for physicians with specialties on specialtiesparticularly emergency medicine. Moreover, it has an importance in the strategy

adopted by the council to provide a virtual environment that is the closest to the

real environment which will eventually enhance the medical services rendered

in the Sultanate .

2. Capital Market Authority Festival for Orphans

This project aims at buying shares in favor of orphaned children and involving

them in the economical transactions as well as establishing the investment

culture in the orphaned youth. This project was executed in a partnership with theMinistry of Social Development and Muscat Clearing & Depository Company.

Moreover, the CMA participates with other nancial institutions in organizing

the stock market. The most important objectives of

the Capital Market Authority are supervising the sales

and purchases of stocks, working on establishing fair

standards of pricing, safety of procedures, settlement

of rights and commitments and other issues.

3. Majan Electricity Company (the Green Building)The green building, of Majan Electricity Company is considered as an eco-

friendly building in which it uses more than 80% of high quality glass installed

at the front side of the building in which no heat will permeate through the glass

to the ofces inside. It is worth mentioning that Majan Electricity Company

distributes and supplies electricity to its areas of

operation such as the northern Batinah Region, Al

Burami Governorate and Al Dhahirah Governorate.

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1. International Financial Services

It was founded in March 1989 and provides nancial

intermediary service for stocks issued at the Capital MarketAuthority in addition to nancial consultation services for its

clients.

2. Al Mamlaka for Organizing Exhibitions (Muscat Bride Exhibition)

The exhibition aims to display an integrated show for the latest fashion designs

and companies providing wedding parties services. The exhibition attracts more

than 100 experts and service providers to display their products in addition to

other central stores specialized in providing all brides and bridegrooms needs

in general for and women in particular. The exhibition showcased a number oftalented designers specializing in designing traditional Omani

dresses. This company is one of the pioneering companies in

the led of organizing inspired exhibitions in the Sultanate in

cooperation with small and medium companies. Some of the most important

achievements of this company is the training of the Omani youth and selecting

qualied persons as well as supporting small and medium companies.

3. Al Nimr International for Exhibition Organization (1st Oman Exhibition for

Basic Infrastructure)It is one of the pioneering exhibition organizing companies in Oman comprising

an enthusiastic team of young, experienced and dynamic professionals, who have

the passion and requisite skills to organize high-prole events for prestigious

exhibitors and clientele. The exhibition focuses on paving

the way for the local and international companies to present

their services and products for their clients, stakeholders

intending to invest in the construction and contracting

sector in the Sultanate. Furthermore, the exhibition enables individuals

and the Association to get acquainted to products of local and internationalcompanies and to have an idea about the job opportunities in this sector as well

as getting products with competitive prices. The exhibition includes a group of

environmental conservation projects such as recycling papers and renewable

energy. Of the most prominent exhibitions organized by Al Nimr is the 1st

Oman Basic Infrastructure Exhibition, and also Media and Advertisement

Exhibition, Oman Medical Conference and Exhibition, Sport and Luxurious

Cars Exhibition and an Indian Real Estate Exhibition.

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4. Brshutis for Media and Digital Art

Brshutis was founded in 2008 by two young Omani entrepreneurs holding

both academic and vocational certicates in the eld of Business Management

and Digital Media. Brshutis is a company specializing in the

visual and photographic imaging (video), lm industry, media

coverage, digital production, 3D animation, graphic designing

and audio production.

The company is based in Muscat and has established a new branch in Qatar in 2011.

It contributed with its expertise to the implementation of a number of social

awareness campaigns for a number of social institutions, governmental civil

and private companies. It contributed to the development of advertisement and

media sectors in the Sultanate through its contributions and actions implemented

collaboratively with a number of college and university students in addition to

holding a number of training courses in elds related to media in an attempt toqualify students for the labor market.

1. Azurd Coast for Trading (Sahil Azurd for Trading )

A technical company specialized in supplying and installing

luxurious products and front decorations of buildings (natural

stones, marble, proong materials and wooden oors)

Omanization ratio in this company is 50%.

2. Mohamed bin Hamdoon Al Balushi Establishment

A car washing station using jet steam power. This project contributed to

providing a large number of employment opportunities and in the developing

process through the Omani youth for creating new ideas for

small and medium projects. The staff of this company is working

on developing the project, using new technology and adopting

environmental sustainability practices.

3. Sanad Center for Smart Cards

It provides smart cards services for dwellers of Ibra Wilayaat

in Al Sharqiaya region. It also provides a number of services

such as typing and follow up procedures.

4. Ahmed bin Hamdoon Al Bablushi

One of the Sanad service centers specialized in providing a range of services such

as typing marriage forms for expatriates and printing the form of the contract of

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employment. It is also authorized to provide other services such

as typing work permits forms, labor cards, visa applications, civil

status forms and medical examination forms for the expatriates

as well as collecting electricity, water and telephone bills, sales

of mobile scratch cards and SIM Cards, color printing, photocopying, imaging,

digital copying. It is characterized by an innovative work management as well

as a creative way of dealing with clients and providing services.

5. Suleiman bin Esaa Al Amry Establishment

One of the Sanad service centers specialized in providing a range

of services such as typing the marriage forms for expatriates

and printing the form of the contract of employment. It is also

authorized to provide other services such as typing work permits

forms, labor cards, visa applications, civil status forms and medical examinationforms for the expatriates as well as collecting electricity water and telephone

bills, sales of mobile scratch cards, SIM cards, color printing, photocopying,

imaging and digital copying.

6. Bushra Al Muna Establishment for Perfume and Incense

The company has 8 years experience in perfume and incense production.

The company represented by its staff is working on promoting the products

of productive families. During the last year it established a welfare exhibitionfor productive families as well as an exhibition for female entrepreneurs for

a period of one month with a participation of more than

70 female entrepreneurs. The prots of the exhibition was

dedicated for the benet of the National Association for

Cancer. The company established a welfare ceremony during Salalah Tourism

Festival 2011.

7. Alkaf Al Arabya( Alkaf Arabic Enterprises )

It is specialized in supplying and installing tents and nomad tents. Theexclusiveness of this project is that it provides a number of employment

opportunities for Omani youth using materials from the local environment

for creating the products of the project such as nomad

tents and tents. Furthermore, the project takes into

consideration the sustainability considerations through

the diversication of future products and ideas .


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Isihak bin Hilal Al ShiryaniIt provides consultation, managerial and nancial services

as well as providing economic feasibility studies for new

and emerging enterprises which include small and medium

enterprises. The main objective of the project is familiarising

the clients with the mechanism of scientic researching, human

resources management, incentives, strategies management,

questionnaires building, investing the natural resources,

sales and marketing processes as well as providing new entrepreneurs with

statistics about the market and population at the project site. My project has

contributed to supporting a large number of entrepreneurs by knowing how to

start their buisness properly. Therefore, I have built a database of clients who

implemented large projects (such as Wahat Al Osra Family Oasis at Bahla

valued approx. 400.000/- OMR and still this project is in operation in the proper

way. The project has attained a number of positive results some of which are

establishing the principle of work and self reliance instead of just waiting for

welfare subsidies from others, teaching young job seekers in the Sultanate using

an advanced teaching methodology on the proper way of establishing their own

projects and at the same time instructing and training them in a profession that

suits them for living. This will help them get ideas for more productive projects

as per their working capital such as gas and oil projects where it is rare to nd

youth in this sector.

The Industrial Innovation Centre

It is a unique initiative that aims to support industrial projects in the Sultanate

and connecting them with the research centers. It aims at building a rich

knowledge, culture in the industrial sector and highlighting the benets of

cooperation with the research community at universities,laboratories, institutions and scientic centers. It also aims

at encouraging the small and medium enterprises in adopting

the scientic research methods and innovation in a pursuit

towards developing and expanding its activities. Furthermore,

it aims at instructing the academics researchers on how to overcome industrial

and commercial challenges and nding solution in a scientic method in

conformity with the pioneering ideas of the concerned institutions. Moreover,

Al Roya Award for Individual Enterprises

D. Al Roya Award for Individual Projects

1. The Best Economic Governmental Establishment


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it aims at encouraging small and medium-sized organizations to adopt research

and innovation tools to develop their scope of work and provide academic

researchers with opportunities to deal with and solve industrial and commercial

problems and challenges. Also, it aims at providing a platform for exchanging

ideas and communication between innovative entrepreneurs and investors to

compete with other countries that are advanced in the industrial sector and to

minimize the importation of industrial products.

2. The Best Business Figure for 2011 Individual Government Sector

Sheikh Salah bin Hilal Al Mowaly

Director General of the General Directorate for the Development of Small and

Medium Enterprises in the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

Sheikh Salah obtained a Masters degree in International

Business in 2001 from the School of Business Administration,Shefeld University, UK, and a BA degree in Business

Administration in 1996 from Arkansas State University,

USA.

Sheikh Salah Al Mowaly has made a number of contributions

to the establishment of the Directorate and the development of its strategy

until 2013. He established annually a well reputed conference exhibition for

small and medium enterprises. He developed a strategic cooperation on the

management of small business projects in the United States to transfer their

expertise and experiences in the development policies to develop small andmedium enterprises and its programs in the Sultanate of Oman. The development

of strategic partnerships with international agencies in India, Malaysia, Korea

and Turkey, which can provide technical assistance to strengthen the small and

medium enterprises sector in the Sultanate of Oman. A number of Memoranda

of Understanding have been signed with such entities to develop the public

and private sectors and to partnership with various sectors including nancial

institutions, Chamber of Commerce and Industry and businessmen to develop

specic programs for the development of small and medium enterprises in the

Sultanate of Oman.Designing an intensive training programme to train Omani businessmen to be

implemented by a team from the Directorate.

Leading the team of the Directorate in the preparation and publication of manuals

aimed at disseminating knowledge, entrepreneurial culture and information to

the business. He participated in numerous conferences, courses and workshops

locally, regionally and internationally. Moreover, he delivered many lectures in

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3.The Best Economic Establishment Private Sector

Sohar Aluminum was established in September 2004. Its real productive capacity

started in February 2009. Since its inception, it focused on many important

issues such as Omanization which recently reached 70% of

its national work force. This percentage is the supporting

work force of the company. Within this framework, the

company has implemented many projects which provide

2 million dollars of employment opportunities for Omani

youth per year for the purpose of supporting the new Omani generation. The

company has also established Sohar Aluminum Training Center to train Omani

nationals.

Aluminum Sohar is proud of the contribution it makes to the local community it

operates in. This strategy can be best displayed through its mission of achieving

a good fortune, afuence and income growth for Al Batina region.Aluminum Sohar yearly dedicates 1.5% of shareholders prots for the social

responsibility programs.

It is expected that the social responsibility programmes provided by the company

this year will have a wider effect on the community through the synergic efforts

of Sohar Aluminium, Vale and ORPIC some of the largest companies in the

governorate, to launch a range of social responsibility programmes under an

agreement on an investment project including educational, medical, health and

environmental services projects in addition to developing the infrastructure of

the local community.

4. The Best Business Figure Banking Sector

Mr. Abdel Gader Asklaan

The CEO of Oman Arab Bank in the Sultanate of Oman, started his career as

an accountant with a monthly salary of only $ 4o/. nally he managed bank

assets of $ 2.2 billion dollars.

His experience includes banking in Jordan, Yemen, United

Arab Emirates and the Sultanate.

Abdel Gader did not have any interest in banking and whenhe graduated from Al Najah College, Jordan in 1956 he was

seriously planning to join the Aviation College to become a

pilot but instead applied to the Arab Bank in Amman as an

accountant in 1957.

He remained in the Arab Bank for 9 months and was then assigned to manage

the bank branch in Yemen, and continued there from 1958 to 1969. Later he

became the branch manager in the Arab Bank in Ras Al Khaimah in 1970, and

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Oman. Arab Bank started its banking activity in the Sultanate starting with 50

million OMR, and now the bank assets value more than $ 2.2 billion.

The nancial activity of the bank concentrates on joint stock companies and on

providing facilitates for contractors.

5. The Best Business fgure the Vocational Association

Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Hamad al-Harthy.

Chairman of Omani Economic Association, an economic

expert and consultant. He holds a BA in Business

Administration and Accounting from the United States of

America (1979), and gained his Masters Degree in Economics

from the United States of America in 1981.

He has participated in the work of several government

committees, seminars and conferences held in variouscountries around the world. He holds the Medal of Civil Service Appreciation

- rst class (1990). He is the Author of the Oman Encyclopedia (his vast and far

ranging credentials were mentioned earlier).

6. The Best Business fgure Businessmen

Yusuf bin Yaqub bin Nasser Al Busaidi

Chairman of the Entrepreneurs Forum at the Chamber of

Commerce and Industry of Oman during the period (2007-

2010).The Forum was established to be a platform for young citizens

in the Sultanate, for businessmen and businesswomen as well

as ones who are interested in the world of entrepreneurship.

The Forum implemented a range of activities focusing on

adopting ideas of business entrepreneurs, synergizing their efforts and work

on improving their success opportunities through outstanding programmes and

activities.

In cooperation with government agencies and private sector institutions, the

committee established the Exhibition and Conference for Small and MediumEnterprises during the period from 16 to 18 February 2009, and has been held

annually since that time.

The Forum held a number of meetings for entrepreneurs on a quarterly basis

in which four meetings were held at the main center of the Chamber in the

Governorate of Muscat in 2010.

He has his BA in Business Administration from the University of St. Louis -

Missouri, United States, as well as a Masters degree in from Majan University

College with association with Bedfordshire University, UK.


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7. The Best Business Figure - Businesswomen

Sharifa bint Musallam Alburami

She is a business entrepreneur focusing on developing

small and medium enterprises and promoting a culture of

entrepreneurship.

She has 11 years of practical experience in the public and

private sectors in the Sultanate and the United Kingdom.

She holds a BA degree with distinguished honours and

graduated in medical science from the University of Portsmouth,

UK. She is specialized in Total Quality Management Systems.

Moreover, she is an expert the systems of Quality Assessment, accredited by the

South Africa National Accreditation Systems (SANAS).

Currently she is the Managing Partner of Al Jazeera Global Services and

Investment, in addition to being a business consultant and certied trainer forthe Cisco Institute of Entrepreneurship (USA).

She also has a social and voluntary activity in the civil association represented in

various social initiatives and panel discussions and the debate about empowering

women and the youth in the community.

She was elected to the post of Vice-Chairperson of the Womens Association

in Muscat, Oman (2010-2012), and she is also a member of the Female

Entrepreneurs Forum in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Oman.

Her current efforts are devoted solely to directing and stimulating local entrepreneurs

and to providing advice and ways of developing the sector of small and mediumenterprises in addition to participating in various conferences, workshops and

seminars in the eld of business management and capacity building.

8. Al Roya Award for the Best Civil Association Establishment

The Omani Association for Farmers of Al Batinah Governorate (My Product

Project)

My Product Project was established and implemented by the Omani Association

for Farmers of Al Batinah Governorate with cooperation of the Ministry of

Agriculture and Fisheries and Tourism Development. The project aims atimproving the income of a number of productive families in the Al Batinah

region and enhancing the output of its commercial project

on the long run.

This initiative aims to support the productive activities

practised by the participating families such as beekeeping,

date products, vegetables, fruit, eggs to be exhibited and sold

in the market. It is considered as clear cut evidence of the

close cooperation that we seek to establish between the public and private


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sectors to help the community through supporting rural woman activities. The

aspect of this initiative is represented by providing support for farmers to enhance

the presence of their projects in the local market .This can be attained through

training them on the effective packaging and marketing techniques. The prots

of this project will be totally granted to the participating families. The project

was implemented in 7 phases through a thorough and in- depth feasibility study

and selecting the appropriate products, the participating families, the nature of

activities, training on packaging and marketing techniques, work and nancial

management. The preparation phases also included a eld visit by a number of

the Association members and farmers of Al Batinah to the farms to evaluate

the volume of work and estimating the capacity of the project. The families

responded actively through their determination to manage their own living

resources by themselves. This association was founded in 6 December 2005

and is based in Al Swaiq Wilayaat.

Since its inception, the association had clear cut objectives of instructing

the farmers on adopting new farming techniques and supplying cutting edge

farming equipment as well as environmental friendly pesticides to be used by

the participating families. The association also worked on communicating with

farming experts and specialists. The Ministry of Agriculture had supported in

this regard through providing information and expertise . The association helped

in promoting the products through participating in the exhibitions, seminars

and researches in and outside the Sultanate some of which are the SustainableDevelopment Seminar for the Agricultural Sector and the organization of the

labor market in which the association participated in presenting a research and

exhibiting a number of vegetables at the exhibition.

9. The Best Economic Programme Economic Media Sector

Economic Vision Programme

Prepared by Mr. Abdullah bin Saeed Al Sheily and edited by Mohamed Al Jabry,

the Economic Vision Programme is one of the oldest live dialogues presented

at Oman TV. It had been broadcasted over the past 11 years. The programme ispresented in TV serials presented every Saturday night at 9pm in which it hosts

an elite of experts, ofcials, academics and stakeholders to discuss the economic

issues and activities related to economic development in the Sultanate as well

as other economic issues at regional and international levels. The programmes

have attracted a large number of audiences interested in the economic issues.

The programme provides supporting information in the form of headlines and

points discussed in the programme subtitled in the TV banner.


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