Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company is amongst the Middle East's most influential and innovative real estate investment companies, dedicated to sustainable growth, building friendships as well as communities, and demonstrating respect for local culture and tradition. Fully owned by the Qatar Investment Authority, the state's official investment agency, Qatari Diar was established in December 2004 to support Qatar's growing economy and to co-ordinate the country's real estate development priorities; creating distinguished, high-end well planned tourism and living destinations.

Qatari Diar is responsible for the master-planned Lusail Development, which will cover 35 square kilometers and accommodate over 200,000 new people. Situated in the North of Doha, this breathtaking city expansion will transform existing raw tidal flats and dramatically change the economic and physical profile of Qatar for the better: it will provide a vribrant, desirable, well planned, urban development and waterfront community to Qatari resident, international and regional visitors.

In another attempt to generate sustainable, tangible socio-economic benefits for the communities where it builds, Qatari Diar will soon launch its first overseas development, Al Houara, a luxury resort destination south of Tangiers, Morocco; an elegant dream destination in a land of enchantment, that will help revitalize the region's tourism industry and provide new economic opportunities to its residents. Al Houara will deliver a sens of freedom – that whatever you want to do, or however you want to spend your time, here is a place you can retreat to, where tradition is combined with modern comforts, and Arab heritage with cosmopolitan culture and delights.

With its unique outlook and bold investment strategy, and some of the most exciting and transformational development projects in the region now underway, Qatari Diar is positioned to forever change the landscape of the region.

Qatari Businessmen Association

Founded in 2002, under the progressive guidance of His Highness the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Qatari Businessmen Association is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization of key business people working together to improve Qatar’s economic and civic vitality. The positive and entrusting relationships that QBA has threaded throughout the business community have been spectacular, for which QBA has been engaged in a number of distinctive initiatives to provide clearer dialogue and structure to better assist and advance the development of the business environment.

Qatari Businessmen Association’s objective is to build economic prosperity; vision by vision, piece by piece. We strive to create a synergistic environment where businesses, government, residents, and other stakeholders thrive through collaboration and cooperation. The vision of QBA is to be the catalyst for excellence in business through exceptional community relationships to enrich the quality of Qatar’s economic and civic wealth, and to promote the global competitiveness of our country.

Our vision is to act as a catalyst for the promotion of diversified investment flows, modern entrepreneurial spirit and corporate development in Qatar by continuously improving the business environment taking into account social development, international and regional trends as well as national interests. Our mission is motivated and encouraged by a state government policy that stresses the need to support and enhance the private sector role in the economy.

As a unified voice for businesses, Qatari Business Association accomplishes collectively what no individual business could do alone. QBA harnesses the creative energies of the business community to accomplish together what could not be accomplished individually.

At the heart of the Arabian Gulf, witness the first custom-made, fully integrated energy hub. As a nerve center for global gas and oil industry in the Middle East, Energy City Qatar at Lusail is an advanced city of the future realized today. Energy City Qatar intends to accomplish its goals in full coordination and cooperation with other leading initiatives. The resources of the city could leave the development of hydrocarbon industry and transform the potential of the energy sector in the entire region while securing a unique place for Qatar on the global energy map.

Qatar is the natural choice to host the $2.6 billion USD project because of its vast proven energy reserves, participation and openness to the international investments, and a very long list of approved energy projects. Architecturally, Energy City Qatar at Lusail combines the basic elements of nature and physics. Its spiral composition embodies an evolution towards infinity and endless opportunities. Located in the prestigious Lusail, a development part of the capitol (Doha), Energy City Qatar will pride itself in an ordered infrastructure whose beauty will be enhanced by stunning landscapes and sculptures. Its design is based on fractal geometry of organized chaos and its construction will include cutting edge high tech materials.

Energy City Qatar will be a magnet, attracting energy companies around the world to a state of the art synergetic business environment. It will be a facility filled with a diverse mix of energy related companies, customers, suppliers and pairs together in a vibrant innovative environment. Energy City Qatar strives beyond standards. Like nature, it completes a cycle; a cycle of energy, commerce and development. A reviving concept ready to energize Qatar and the world, Energy City Qatar at Lusail promises the modern way of business investment for generations to come. Access the energy.

Microsoft is dedicated to enabling people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential. The company provides software and services that help people communicate, do their work, be entertained, and manage their personal lives. Over the past 32 years, innovative technology has transformed how we access and share information, changed the way businesses and institutions operate, and made the world smaller by giving us instant access to people and resources everywhere.

Microsoft opened its Qatar-based branch in 2003 with the aim of better serving the local market. Today, Microsoft Qatar delivers the full range of Microsoft products and services through a team of 20 qualified people who are fully dedicated to innovating to lower the costs of technology for clients.

Microsoft’s business is built on relationships with customers, partners, investors, employees and with the general community. The company aims to show leadership in supporting the communities in which we all work and live and is actively involved in the Qatari community through the many trainings, seminars and events that it offers to various levels of IT users.

We are committed long term to the mission of helping our customers realize their full potential. Just as we constantly update and improve our products, we want to continually evolve our company to be in the best position to accelerate new technologies as they emerge and to better serve our customers.

مؤسسة الخليج للاستثمار هي مؤسسة مالية إقليمية رائدة تركز على تطوير القطاع الخاص وتعزيز النمو الاقتصادي في منطقة مجلس التعاون لدول الخليج العربية.

تأسست في عام 1983 وتملكها بالتساوي حكومات الدول الست الأعضاء في مجلس التعاون الخليجي . وتستثمر المؤسسة بنجاح في مشاريع رئيسية موزعة على نطاق متنوع من القطاعات ومن ضمنها الخدمات المالية ، والاتصالات ، والبتروكيماويات ، والفولاذ ، والطاقة الكهربائية. وتحرص المؤسسة على موازنة مخاطر استثماراتها المباشرة في مختلف أنحاء دول المجلس باستثماراتها في الأسواق المحلية والعالمية والموزعة على مختلف فئات الأصول والأفكار الاستثمارية .

وتتركز أنشطة مؤسسة الخليج للاستثمار في مجالين رئيسيين هما : الاستثمارات المباشرة والأسواق العالمية ،ويلعب فريق الاستثمارات المباشرة دوراً هاماً في أنشطة المؤسسة من خلال الاستثمار في المشاريع الجديدة و المشاريع القائمة حالياً والتي تتوفر لها ميزة الاستفادة من الموارد المحلية . ويهدف هذا الفريق إلى استكشاف الفرص الاستثمارية في المشاريع التي تنطوي على إمكانية تحقيق مصدر مستقر للإيرادات بعائد تجاري.

كما يلعب فريق الاستثمارات المباشرة دوراً ريادياً في تقديم خدمات الاستشارات المالية والإستراتيجية إلى عملاء المؤسسة الإقليميين والدوليين .

أما فريق أنشطة الأسواق العالمية فهو يوجه جهوده إلى الاستثمار في كل من الأسواق الإقليمية والدولية ، مع التركيز بصفة خاصة على أسهم الشركات الخليجية والاستثمارات المدرّة للدخل الثابت . وتتسع أنشطة هذا الفريق بما يمكن مؤسسة الخليج للاستثمار من أن تعرض نطاقـاً شاملاً من الخدمات المالية ومحفظة متنوعة تشمل أوراق الدين ، والأسهم ، وصناديق التحوط ، والمنتجات والخدمات المتوافقة مع مبادئ الشريعة الإسلامية .

The Ali Bin Ali Group is a privately owned company, established in 1945 with the vision to provide quality international products and services to the people of Qatar.

Today the Group is one of the largest retail and distribution companies in Qatar and has a long-standing history of successful partnerships with the world’s leading brands across a diverse range of business activities.

With its unrivalled market knowledge, the Ali Bin Ali Group has developed in response to the country’s diversifying requirements and is currently active within the following business sectors:

• FMCG sales and distribution
• Luxury & High end Retailing
• Imaging products and services
• Medical equipment & supplies
• IT solutions
• Property and Real Estate
• Restaurants and Catering
• Logistics
• Printing & Publishing
• Travel services
• Joint ventures & sponsorships for foreign investors

As a local organization the Ali Bin Ali Group work to international standards and therefore has gained an impeccable reputation, with excellent public and private sector relationships and most importantly customer satisfaction across each of the Group’s business divisions.

The Ali Bin Ali Group is financially sound and with an enviable business reputation amongst principals, retailers and customers the Group will continue to enjoy exceptional growth, matching that of Qatar.

CCC OVER THE YEARS

Consolidated Contractors is a multinational construction company operating principally in the Middle East & Africa. In nearly 50 years of operation, CCC has grown to become one of the leading contractors in the international construction field. Traditionally catering to the construction of infrastructure relating to the Oil & Gas industries, Consolidated Contractors consists of member and associate companies which all make up the Consolidated Contractors Group. All member companies receive the backing of the Group in terms financing, plant & equipment and labor. This arrangement has enabled CCC to become a more versatile company, through the prevision of specialized construction services.

Today’s group of companies is the offspring of a partnership which brought together the late Kamel Abdul Rahman (an Economist), Hasib Sabbagh and Said Khoury (Engineers) who then in 1952 founded the enterprise. Before the partnership the three graduates of the American University of Beirut pursued successful independent careers in construction. Kamel Abdul Rahman was a founding partner of CAT construction company, and was pursuing projects for the Iraq Petroleum Company in Palestine. Mr. Sabbagh has set up his own construction company in Haifa and secured building contracts in the area and Mr. Khoury owned an engineering office in Safad, his home town, The individual professional experience which each partner brought into the partnership contributed to the successful combination that later enabled the CCC Group to become a professional consolidated force in the construction industry.

At present, the group is owned by Mr. Hassib Sabbagh and Mr. Said Khoury, who are assisted by their sons in the day to day operations of the group.

This year, CCC ranked 17th in the world and 1st in the Middle East in the annual ‘ ENR Top 225 International Construction Survey’, with a turnover of U.S. Dollars 2,335 millions and new sales of U.S. Dollars 3,755 millions, employment throughout 2005 was more than 75,000 employees of 60 different nationalities based on projects worldwide and a headquarters in Athens, Greece.

CCC’s management is also committed to increasing computerization between project areas and headquarters. The emphasis on the quality and speed at which information is exchanged has created the need for sophisticated project control systems. These have been designed for specific functions such as, Estimation, Budgeting, Planning, Cost Control, Computer Aided Design and Engineering, Work Flow Modeling and Quality Assurance & Control.

A synonymous in the business development in Qatar

For 50 years, Alfardan has been synonymous with development in Qatar and proud to be a part of the nation’s development under the guidance of H.H. Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar.

The deep-rooted heritage of the family is very dear and valuable to Alfardan. It is an honorable business that Alfardan Group nurtured and valued as if it was their own flesh and blood. There were challenges along the way but the key has always been to learn from Alfardan Group's experiences and come back stronger.

Alfardan Group believes in excellence and focuses constantly on its customers and it aims to become the leading lifestyle goods and services provider in the Middle East.

Alfardan Group is one of the foremost entities in Qatar and the region, which comprises the world's most prestigious names that cover life's different aspects through its prominent collection of first-class companies, which includes:

• Alfardan Jewellery
• Alfardan Exchange
• Alfardan Real Estate
• Alfardan Automobiles
• Alfardan Premier Motors
• Alfardan Trading and Services
• Alfardan Marine Services
• Sports Motors Company
• Construction Development Company
• Arabian Agencies Company
• Resorts Development Company

Tatweer Infrastructure Company was established in March of 2006 as a registered share holding company in Qatar with a capitalization of approximately QR 600 million. Based in Doha, Tatweer has a unique approach to business practice and development in the Gulf Business world. Tatweer’s objective is to drive the transformation and growth of Qatar, as well as other countries in the Gulf and MENA region, through infrastructure development based on the Build Operate Transfer/Private Public Partnership (BOT/PPP) concept.

As one of the few BOT/PPP focused infrastructure companies based in the region, Tatweer holds a strong vision for the future of the Gulf as it concentrates on core infrastructure projects in four main sectors. These sectors include Water, Power & Energy, Industrial Infrastructure, Transportation Infrastructure and Real Estate/Tourism.

With its diversified board of directors, Tatweer brings together key leaders from Financial Institutions, Construction Companies, Banks, and Government Agencies which provide leverage over other companies in terms of financial facilities and construction know how. Backed by the direction and business knowledge of some of the oldest traditional merchant families of the Gulf, Tatweer’s strength lies within the leadership of the organization; combining innovative, calculated ideas with seasoned engineers and necessary outsourcing.

Qatar Petroleum, Committed to Excellence

Qatar Petroleum (QP), formerly Qatar General Petroleum Corporation, is a state-owned corporation established, by Emiri Decree No 10 in 1974, responsible for all phases of the oil and gas industry in Qatar.

QP’s objective is to maximize contribution to the national wealth of the State of Qatar, through safe, efficient and environmentally acceptable exploitation of Qatar's hydrocarbon reserves and related activities.

QP generates the major source of revenue for the State and it is the prime producer of energy products for the community and for local industries. It has a role in developing and training nationals so that their share in their national oil corporation work force continues to grow.

The principal activities of Qatar Petroleum and its subsidiaries and joint ventures cover exploration, drilling and production operations, transport, storage, marketing and sale of crude oil, natural gas liquids, liquefied natural gas, gas-to-liquids, refined products, petrochemicals and fertilizers, and providing helicopter and other services. QP’s operating philosophy is focused on full-chain integration, where we seek to achieve significant involvement in all segments of the oil and gas chain.

QP operations and activities are conducted on various onshore locations, which include Doha, Dukhan, Mesaieed and Ras Laffan Industrial Cities, as well as offshore areas including Halul Island, offshore production stations, drilling platforms and the North Field, which is considered to be the largest single non-associated gas reservoir in the world with total proven reserves of 900 trillion cubic feet (tscf).

With approximately 80 billion dollars worth of investments in energy projects during the next five years, Qatar is planning to further expand and diversify the production capacity of gas, oil, and petrochemicals. Most of the projects under construction are ‘world scale’ and in some cases bigger than anything yet built in the world.

A major part of Qatar Petroleum’s strategy for the development of the hydrocarbon resources is to establish partnerships with leading international companies in the oil and gas business. QP has created a healthy and attractive investment environment and carefully selected its partners. These partnerships give us access to a wide range of world class technical, marketing and management skills. Built upon positive cooperation and trust, our joint ventures have undertaken tens of billions of dollars in investment commitments during the next few years.

Today our LNG production capacity stands at 31 million tons per annum making Qatar the largest producer of LNG in the world. and by 2010 Qatar will be reaching all the important markets around the globe with an export capacity of 77 million tons per annum delivering gas at competitive prices to the most distant markets in the USA, Asia and Europe. By then, it is expected that the share of Qatar in the world’s LNG trade will be around 30%.

In the oil sector, we are now pursuing a multibillion dollars development that will increase our oil production from current 800 thousand barrels per day to 1.1 million barrels per day in 2010. Such projects will bring benefits to the Qatari economy and to the well-being of its citizens. They will also contribute to the creation of jobs and training opportunities for Qatari nationals.

Thriving on a spirit of enterprise, each of our joint ventures is underpinned by transparency, innovation and determination to achieve unparalleled standards of both quality and service.

At Qatar Petroleum we are committed to one thing above all: Excellence.