Experts open retail door to young entrepreneurs

Aspiring Emirati entrepreneurs got some advice and insight from retail experts recently at the "Innovation in the Retail Sector" workshop in Dubai. The meeting was organized by the Tejar Dubai Entrepreneurship development program, an initiative of the Dubai Chamber of Commerce.

Khalid Al Janahi, an assistant manager of Retail Leasing at Meraas Holding, conducted the workshop and offered some thoughts on attracting customers and becoming successful.

“Aligned with Dubai’s positioning as a 21st century destination that embraces values, cultures and aesthetics from around the world, each Meraas development delivers inspired, themed, live-work-play spaces that add to the cityscape as intrinsically classic as they are futuristic,” Al Janahi said.

Success stories, thoughts on the best practices in global retail, and all aspects of innovation were covered during the meeting.

“The workshop, which is the first for this year, was organized as part of the Tejar Dubai entrepreneurship development program, whose aim is to train budding Emirati entrepreneurs to realize their dreams and to arm them with the required tools to succeed in the business world,” Essa Al Zaabi, senior vice-president of the Institutional Support Sector of the Dubai Chamber and general coordinator of Tejar Dubai, said.