DOHA: The Qatar-based Gulf Organisation for Industrial Consulting (GOIC) has launched the all new Gulf Industrial Knowledge Centre (GIKC) website during the 97th regular meeting of GOIC’s Board, said a press statement yesterday.
The GIKC website www.knowledge.goic.org.qa is part of GOIC’s efforts aiming at developing and expanding its various consultative and technical services. The members of the board highlighted the importance of this website that will be highly beneficial to the GCC industrial sector.
The board meeting was chaired by Ahmed bin Hassan Al Dheeb, Undersecretary of Oman’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry and Chairman of GOIC’s Board of Directors.
It was attended by undersecretaries of ministries of industry from various GCC countries, the representative of the Secretariat-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council and GOIC Secretary General Abdulaziz bin Hamad Al Ageel. GOIC’s board discussed items on the agenda, notably the 2014 second quarter performance report of GOIC’s strategy that includes using Balanced scorecards (BSCs). Participants also tackled joint Gulf ventures.
Al Ageel said that the GIKC website is available in Arabic and English. It has been designed as a portal to all industrial information in the Gulf region. He said: “The website provides a unique set of GOIC’s outputs from various industrial studies and industrial investment opportunities, to new reports about several industrial sectors. In the future, the website will be further developed to offer an even wider set of tools allowing investors to make the right decisions about investing in different Gulf industrial sectors.”
He added: “The industrial investment opportunity files aim at providing Gulf investors and businessmen with information about possible industrial opportunities and offering guidelines about profitability and implementation requirements.”
The website was completely developed by GOIC’s Information Technology Department to make GOIC’s outputs available to international investors seeking industrial opportunities in GCC countries, in addition to researchers, students and banks.
The website allows the surfer to get to know investment opportunities in the Gulf region, industrial studies and reports based on intensive professional researches and studies by GOIC experts in various industrial sectors, such as food, medical supplies, plastics, textiles, leather, chemicals and petrochemicals, engineering, the environment, recycling and other important sectors.
Moreover, registered users enjoy services from GOIC such as weekly industrial newsletters and news about industrial events.
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