That hotel was sold last year by the Dubai Investment Group at a loss.
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His eldest daughter, Bindu, is a director in the Sobha Group in Dubai, and her husband, Ajay, is vice chairman.
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Today, the Dubai-based Mara Group has grown into a major corporation that operates in 18 African countries and has various and diverse interests -- from financial services and real estate to communication, manufacturing and agriculture.
One chain, Lifestyle's Home Centre, which is controlled by Dubai's Landmark Group, has 12 home-furnishing superstores across India that sell most of the same items as IKEA, including sofas, bedroom sets, and kitchen and bathroom items.
At this very moment, everyone at the Eurostar Group office in Dubai is likely overjoyed by the ePad Femme's sudden emergence on the Web.
The Mpumalanga Parks Board, which manages state-owned reserves in Mpumalanga province, home to most of South Africa's wildlife, has just sold a lease to develop some of its best reserves to the Dolphin Group, a Dubai company, in a deal which also did not go out to tender and was indeed originally kept secret.
The pirates who seized the Sirius Star are a sophisticated group with contacts in Dubai and neighbouring countries, says the BBC Somali Service's Yusuf Garaad.
The group will work in Dubai for an entire month, in an effort to soak up what there is to learn in a city that has become a tourist hub and gateway to the Middle East.
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At the time the Dubai-based firm said it planned to make the group the UK's leading budget hotel operator by the 2012 Olympics.
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Emirates is run by the Emirates Group, which is owned by the government of Dubai.
Since retiring from the banking giant in 2005, Eldon has served as the chairman of the Dubai International Financial Centre Authority, an independent director of Noble Group and senior advisor to PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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In the group stages Wales - who won the bottom-tier Shield competition in Dubai last week - secured an excellent 14-14 draw with England, James Harris and Tal Selley scoring late tries.
Emerging multinationals from Russia (AO VimpelCom), India (Arcelor Mittal and ICICI Bank), Dubai (Dubai Holding Co), Mexico (Grupo Televisa SAB) and Indonesia (Lippo Group) show they have much in common that pose a disruptive competitive threat to existing Western companies new business models, low costs and high margins, openness to the best and latest technologies and ideas, an innate cultural diversity and the hunger of the young to succeed.
Djokovic, who helped Serbia reach the quarterfinals of the World Group of the Davis Cup for the first time in the week following his Dubai success, will next target the Masters events in the United States in early spring before turning his attentions to the French Open at Roland Garros as he bids to extend his grand slam tally.
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