The Oman American Business Center (OABC) has unveiled a series of workshops to help local small business owners and entrepreneurs start new enterprises. The workshops for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are organized in cooperation between the OABC and the international law firm Dentons. The first session of the workshops took place last week at TheLoungeOman. Read More »

Bank Nizwa was named the "Best Performing Islamic Bank in Oman" during the 22nd Annual World Islamic Banking Conference (WIBC) held earlier this month. The award recognized the bank for achieving excellence in financial stability, financial performance, governance and social responsibility. Read More »

National Aluminium Products Co. (NAPCO), an aluminum manufacturer based in Oman, will work in tandem with aluminum system designing company ProfilsSystemes Gulf FZCO on a major mixed-use development in Oman. NAPCO will be working with ProfilsSystemes, a French company headquartered in Dubai, on the Saraya Bandar Jissah development that will boast resort-style living. Read More »

Oman's College of Banking and Financial Studies partnered with Queen's School of Business in Canada to offer a Strategic Change Management Program in Oman. The goal of the program was to assist attendees in developing ideas for positive changes in their organizations. Themes covered included understanding challenges brought on by changes and ways to make changes quickly but smoothly. Read More »

Oman Data Park is a one-stop shop for all virtual private server (VPS) hosting needs. Located in Muscat, the company offers a variety of packages for all budgets. The business is a certified data center that can offer VPS hosting and solutions services to clients throughout the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Read More »

Oman Air staff members in charge of business continuity duties were recently honored at an awards ceremony. The 65 employees were recognized for their exemplary work performance and achievements related to a recently completed business continuity project that began in August and involved extensive testing and training as well as the development of sweeping business continuity plans. Read More »

Oman Air recently held a global conference for airport service managers at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Muscat. Read More »

The Oman Oil Marketing Company launched a happiness campaign across Oman to encourage joy throughout the Sultanate. The month-long campaign is called "Farah." It features a variety of events and activities that will be under the operation of a team from omanoil. Some social media enthusiasts as well as popular radio stations located in the Sultanate have collaborated. Read More »

With the tourism sector in Oman booming, investors and developers of the Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre (OCEC) expect the facility's 2016 opening to be a big event. OCEC Director of Business and Development Gillian Taylor recently unveiled "Oman - an Oasis of Opportunity," a new initiative to spotlight the growth of the business events industry in the sultanate. Read More »

Designed to inspire fledgling entrepreneurs by sharing success stories, Global Entrepreneurship Week, which took place Nov. 15 through 19 in Oman, included both workshops and educational sessions. In one of those sessions, Gulf Energy CEO Hilal Al Busaidi spoke about the challenge of growing a multi-million dollar enterprise in a competitive field. Read More »

The GCC-India Forum is underway in Saudi Arabia’s commercial hub of Jeddah, bringing together business leaders from both regions. This year, an Omani delegation joins the forum. The two-day forum is organized to bring together key players from Gulf zone and Indian companies to network and learn about upcoming business and investment opportunities. Read More »

Oman’s National Business Centre is set to kick off a series of entrepreneurship events from Nov. 15 to Nov. 19 as part of the Gulf nation’s recognition of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW). National Business Centre (NBC) is hosting the events with the goal of providing a platform for successful and experienced entrepreneurs to help shape the next generation of Omani innovators. Read More »

Oman Oil Marketing Co. was recently honored with an Oman Economic Review Top 20 Award. “This award reaffirms our position in the market as the nation’s fuel and lubricants provider of choice, a responsibility we do not take lightly and work tirelessly to enhance," Eng. Faisal Al Shanfari, Oman Oil's general manager of operations, engineering and HSSE, said. Read More »

Oman Air’s programs won the Best Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative of the Year at the Ninth annual Aviation Business Awards Oct. 25. The ceremony awarded regional airlines honors in a total of 15 categories at Dubai’s Park Hyatt Hotel. The recognition for Oman Air comes after seeing success with a long-term dual-approach program to increase the accessibility of air travel. Read More »

Oman Air recently upgraded its Frankfurt service for its winter 2015-16 as well as adding service to Dhaka. Oman Air will offer service between Muscat and Frankfurt on its brand new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. The first Frankfurt flight occurred on Oct. 25. Demand for Frankfurt service has steadily increased since it was first offered by the airline in 2009. Read More »

Oman Air made five new appointments Sunday, putting citizens to work in Qatar, the Philippines, Africa, and Pakistan with another management position being taken in Oman itself. Oman Air is in the midst of making major personnel moves that will see Omani citizens take up senior management positions in foreign markets to advance the airline’s policy of “Omanization” of their workforce. Read More »

The Qatar-based mobile telecommunication company Ooredoo took home a whopping 29 trophies from the 2015 International Business Awards – also known as "the Stevies." Ooredoo’s 29 awards added up to make it the most recognized brand at the International Business Awards, earning the company the Grand Stevie Award. The Grand Stevie goes to the company that racks up the most wins. Read More »

A high-level delegation from Ooredoo Kuwait was on hand for the GSM Association’s Mobile 360 Middle East conference in Dubai last week, where the group networked with major global players in the telecom sector. Ooredoo Kuwait is part of the Ooredoo Group, which is one of the Middle East’s largest mobile telecommunication and ICT providers as well as a sponsor of the conference. Read More »

Oil company Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) hosted a workshop Oct. 20 for SMEs in Oman. The goal of the event was to educate SME representatives about how they could get into business with PDO. The half-day workshop, which took place at PDO's Learning Development Center at Mina Al Fahal, was attended by about 75 business people and local community contractors. Read More »

Oman's Port of Salalah's General Cargo Terminal handled a record number of metric tons in September, topping 1.2 million. The previous record, set in June, was just over 1.18 metric tons. "The achievement is not easy to accomplish in this industry and requires a great deal of collaboration, planning, and modern management," Port of Salalah CEO David Gledhill said. Read More »