The Ajman Free Zone Management delegation cut off the ribbon
in Dar es Salaam yesterday ready to start its the services within a country. Ajman will identify and
establish a local presence soon and also form a strategic alliance with a local
marketing agency to create awareness and its benefit to SMEs and thereby
benefit the local Tanzanian economy.
Director General of Ajman Free Zone of UAE, Mahmood Al
hashemi, (left), signing the business deal with Director of Brandz Management
Consultancy, Aziz Merchant in Dar es Salaam yesterday. Ajman has appointed
Brandz Management Consultancy as its sole authorized representative for
Tanzania.
Director
General of Ajman Free Zone of UAE, Mahmood Al hashemi, address the media
conference in Dar es Salaam yesterday. Ajman Free Zone have identified Tanzania
as a potential country within its strategic framework for geographical
expansion in the international market.
Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Ajman Free Zone have identified Tanzania as
a potential country within its strategic framework for geographical expansion
in the international markets, pointing out that the orientations of the Free
Zone in international expansion are deliberate in order to ensure integration
with its local operations and customer needs in line with the vision developed
by the senior management regarding this aspect.
It has appointed Brandz Management
Consultancy, as its sole authorized representative for Tanzania. Brandz will identify
and establish a local presence soon in Dar-es-Salaam and also form a
strategic alliance with a local
marketing agency to create awareness of Ajman Free Zone and its benefits to
SMEs that are looking to expand their business and thereby benefit the local
Tanzanian economy.
In this regard, a Press Talk was held at a
local hotel, which was attended by H.E. Mahmood Khaleel Al Hashemi,
Director-General of Ajman Free Zone, apart from other representatives of Ajman
Free Zone.
Hashemi said that there are over 14,000
registered companies in Ajman Free Zone.
Al Hashemi said “Ajman is now a global hub
for businesses, benefiting from its geographical location, climate, unique
culture and its natural factors to enhance its economic sector.
It was
necessary for us to keep up with this development with ideas and expansion
plans to maintain growth and ensure sustainable success; consequently came the
idea of expansion translated into a strategic expansion plan that includes
representative offices inside the UAE and abroad to ensure easy and flexible
access to Ajman Free Zone with minimal effort and continuous efforts culminated
in this context to the appointment of Brandz Management Consultancy for
facilitating the opening of its representative office in Tanzania.
Ajman Free Zone Authority believes in the
principle of cross promotion and thus looks forward to serving trade missions
and business delegations between two countries. With regards to this objective,
the Free Zone representatives met with Col.
(Retd) Joseph Leon Simbakalia, Director General - EPZA and discussed
various areas of collaboration between EPZA and Ajman Free Zone that could
include consultancy, management and investment.
Director General Simbakalia
communicated to the delegation that EPZA is very keen on cultivating a suitable
investment climate that will help investors capitalize on untapped
opportunities in Tanzania. The delegation was very impressed by the development
strategies undertaken by Director General Simbakalia for the growth of EPZAs in
Tanzania.
Through this visit, the Free Zone is also prospecting opportunities
of high level collaborations that could benefit both countries.. The Free Zone delegation also toured the city and its key trade
locations.
During the Press Talk, Aziz Merchant,
Director of Brandz Management Consultancy, said ''the objective of this visit
and the Press Talk was to give detailed information on the Free Zone, available
facilitations, and ease of working in the Free Zone in Ajman''. Nader Eldesouky - Deputy Director
General added that “our goal is to create and
establish long-term fruitful economic collaborations between the two countries
and encourage investors to take advantage of mutual collaboration and
investment and business facilitations provided to companies, especially SMEs of
Tanzania in the Emirate of Ajman.
When SMEs derive success through
international expansion, they become more competitive and build local capacity
that benefits local economy, and Ajman Free Zone believes in providing cost
effective and prudent international market expansion to companies in Tanzanian
SMEs, which in turn will benefit local economy.
Rishi Somaiya, the Free Zone's
Sales Director, commented further added ''We also see ourselves as enablers for
SMEs, the Free Zone will enable international market expansion, especially for
SMEs in Tanzania by providing all necessary facilitations and preparations that
assures these companies that they are given the best services and products''.
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