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Gulf Daily News Sunday, 21st December 2014
Batelco-BBK in new
partnership
MANAMA: Batelco and
BBK have signed a new
partnership agreement that
will benefit customers of
both organisations.
Dana customers and BBK’s
Al Wajaha customers as both
organisations will deliver special value added benefits to
them as part of the new strateThe agreement was signed gic partnership.
by Batelco Bahrain chief execAdditionally, Batelco’s Al
utive Muna Al Hashimi and Dana customers can apply for
BBK’s general manager for a BBK Al Wajaha account and
retail banking Mohamed Malik enjoy an exclusive package of
during a meeting
held at BBK’s financial services, travel serAD with new qrcode 21x2col hotel&servicedapartments.pdf
premises in Manama.
vices and personalised benefits.
It will benefit Batelco’s Al
Similarly, BBK’s Al Wajaha
customers can apply for Al
Dana membership and receive
the excellent benefits offered
through the Al Dana Club.
Ms Al Hashimi said Batelco
was delighted to join hands
with BBK to deliver some great
benefits to the customers.
“We are very pleased to
build on the strong relationship
we already
have
with BBK and
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look forward to collaborating
with them further to deliver
value added benefits for our Al
Dana customers,” she said.
Mr Malik said that BBK
was delighted to partner with
Batelco as Bahrain’s leading
business communication services provider, stressing that
such co-operation is in line
with the bank’s continued
n Ms Al Hashimi and Mr Malik sign the agreement
efforts to offer the best products, services and benefits for
its valued clients.
“The Al Wajaha and Al Dana
Programmes deliver great benefits and privileges for their
members and together combine
to reward the loyal clients of
both organisations. Both parties
care about their clients’ satisfac-
tion and accordingly are committed to providing them with
the best products, services and
added benefits,” said Mr Malik.
Batelco has a well-established and successful presence
in five BBK Financial Malls
around the kingdom at Riffa,
Budaiya, Exhibition Avenue,
Muharraq and Adliya.
n The Bahrain Noor El Ain Festival and Ahmed Zayani and Sons have entered into a new
sponsorship agreement. By joining as a sponsor, the leading car dealership, will feature in the
mega draw raffle of the festival by providing cars as part of exciting prizes. Noor El Ain Festival
director Abdulla Al Mannai and Ahmed Zayani and Sons general manager Zaid Hamed signed
the deal. Bahrain Noor El Ain is a two-month shopping festival, which showcases the very best
of Bahrain, with local talent and products on display at different markets across the kingdom.
More than 20 malls are participating in this shopping extravaganza.
n Bin Hindi Motors, exclusive distributors of KIA vehicles and genuine spare parts, has been
awarded an excellence award for the second time in a row by MOBIS for 2013 at the Middle
East and Africa Parts Conference in Shanghai, China. KIA spare parts manager Ullas Yohannan
received the award from MPME managing director C W Yoon. Above, A A Bin Hindi Group vicechairman and chief executive Ahmed Bin Hindi with KIA after sales general manager Thomas
John, right, and Mr Yohannan, left.
LuLu unveils
600 jobs plan
for Bahrainis
MANAMA: LuLu Group has
unveiled plans to generate
600 jobs for Bahrainis in the
next two years.
The UAE-based retail
major already employs more
than 1,000 Bahrainis across
its operations in the kingdom.
The new plans were
announced during an event
marking Bahrain’s National
Day celebrations, where
LuLu Group managing
director Yusuffali MA was
honoured for his contribution
to Bahrain’s economy.
The GDN had earlier
reported that the retailer would set up three more
LuLu Hypermarkets – one
each in Busaiteen, Juffair
and Umm Al Hassam, as
well as a total of 10 LuLu
International
Exchange
branches across the country
as part of its expansion plan
in Bahrain.
Al Mohsin wins
top fellowship
MANAMA: Bahraini Warda
Saeed Habib Al Mohsin
has obtained Fellowship of
the Chartered Insurance
Institute
(FCII) from
the UK-based Chartered
Insurance Institute.
Ms Al Mohsin’s achievement raises the number of
Bahraini holders of this
advanced academic qualification to five, including two
females.
The total number of FCII
degree holders is 6,000 globally.
She is a chemical engineer
working for Hannover Re
in the underwriting department, the third Reinsurance
Company in the world.
China offers
$3bn loan
BANGKOK:
China
has
offered more than $3 billion
in loans and aid to neighbours Cambodia, Vietnam,
Myanmar, Thailand and
Laos to improve infrastructure
and
production, and to fight poverty,
state media reported yesterday.
Chinese
Premier
Li
Keqiang said the offer included $1bn for infrastructure,
$490 million for poverty alleviation and $1.6bn in special
loans for China’s production
capacity export, Xinhua news
agency said.
During a speech to the
fifth summit of the Greater
Mekong Subregion Economic
Co-operation in Bangkok, Li
also pledged $16.4m to dredge
waterways along the Mekong
River to prevent natural disasters.