Category: Made in the UAE

Pioneering logistics solutions Award-winning, Dubai-based RSA Global continues its growth trajectory with international expansion, collaboration, and a drive to digitalise RSA Logistics – rebranded as RSA Global – was named Business of the Year at the Gulf Capital SME Awards 2017, run in partnership with MEED. RSA’s co-founder and CEO, Abhishek Ajay Shah, was also […]

  WINNER FedEx Start-up Business of the Year GULF CAPITAL SME AWARDS 2021       While the pandemic had confined & limited us in several ways, it also became a catalyst towards motivating people across the globe for a positive change towards the health of the people & the future of the planet. Giving […]

Pure Harvest’s commitment to enabling high-quality, local food production won the company Start-up Business of the Year at the 2019 Gulf Capital SME Awards   One of the most critical lessons to come out of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the fragility of international supply chains and the need to reduce the region’s vulnerability to […]

With a vision to transform the UAE’s delivery vehicles, Gulf Capital SME Awards winner One Moto proves that protecting the environment makes commercial sense Having ridden motorbikes in the UAE for over 13 years, Adam Ridgeway was struck by the poor state of many of the delivery vehicles in the region. Old, badly serviced bikes […]

Undeterred by economic downturn and a global pandemic, 2018 Gulf Capital award winner Ecocoast’s marine protection solutions business remains buoyant Ecocoast’s mission is: “To solve the world’s most pressing marine problems and create a more pioneering marine industry.” Founded in Dubai in 2009 by Dana Liparts and Lachlan Jackson, the innovative engineering company produces a […]

Elevision Media, winner of the 2014 MasterCard Small Business of the Year at the Gulf Capital SME awards, recognised the potential of in-elevator advertising If you could provide marketing executives with a captive, attentive audience for 30 to 60 seconds, consisting of every single person who lives, works or visits a tower block in the […]

2015 award winner Souqalmal.com impressed judges with its strong growth and pioneering approach to personal finance education When Ambareen Musa arrived in Dubai in 2008, she was struck by the fact there were 50 banks established in the UAE, but no easy way to compare the products and services on offer. “I come from a […]

Craig Moore’s ambition to revolutionise SME finance saw him win ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ at MEED’s Gulf Capital SME Awards 2016 Since its launch in 2014, UAE-based peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform Beehive has successfully facilitated more than AED800m to around 800 business funding requests and registered over 15,000 investors. In recognition of his achievement in […]

In the lead up to the Gulf Capital SME Awards 2021, MEED looks back on winners over the past decade, starting with 2012 Business of the Year Bayt.com Online recruitment agency Bayt.com was named ‘Business of the Year’ at the Gulf Capital SME Awards 2012, in partnership with MEED. In their citation, the judges said […]

In 2013, real estate website Propertyfinder.ae won ‘Online Business of the Year’ at the Gulf Capital SME Awards. MEED looks back at the firm’s journey to success “Don’t build a business to make money,” says Michael Lahyani, CEO and Founder of Dubai-headquartered Propertyfinder.ae. “Build a product to solve a problem. And preferably a problem that you […]

    Starting a business within the UAE is fairly easy, and a lot of companies and foreigners are jumping at the opportunity with the new directives and initiatives launched in 2021 with benefits that will carry forward in the coming years. In the space of several decades, the Emirates has had a fantastic transformation, […]