7 questions with … Toufic Kreidieh
Toufic Kreidieh is CEO of the Brands for Less Group, a UAE-based discount retail business that specialises in selling luxury brands at a fraction of the cost. The group operates…
Read More
7 questions with…Payal Mirchandani
Payal Mirchandani is the founder and CEO of Pinca Play, an online wellness company in the UAE with children front of mind. Since its launch in 2011, Pinca has become…
Read More
7 questions with…Lydia Schoonderbeek
Lydia Schoonderbeek is the founder and CEO of Source Beauty, the first e-commerce beauty site in Egypt and North Africa.
Founded as a blog in 2016, it transformed into an…
Read More
7 questions with…Yunib Siddiqui
Yunib Siddiqui is CEO of Jones the Grocer. Established 25 years ago in Australia, Jones the Grocer has 27 stores across the Middle East. Jones the Grocer is a food…
Read More
7 questions with…Bassel ElTokhy
Bassel El Tokhy is COO of vaLU, Egypt’s most innovative buy-now-pay-later platform.
Established in 2017, vaLU connects shoppers to a digital network of retail and e-commerce providers, allowing purchases to…
Read More
7 questions with…Ana Elisa Seixas
Ana Elisa Seixas is marketing manager at ASICS Arabia, a designer, manufacturer and retailer of high-performance athletic footwear, apparel and accessories. Founded in Japan back in 1949, ASICS has lined…
Read More
7 questions with … Jodie Thorpe
Jodie Thorpe is managing director of e-commerce site Little Birdy, which she founded in 2015. The retailer stocks beauty, gift, stationery, lifestyle, homeware, wellness and baby care products and is…
Read More
7 questions with … Nicola Augusti
Nicola Augusti is founder of online sportswear and athleisurewear brand NickyBe. Since its founding in 2019, the Dubai-based brand has amassed more than 65,000 followers on social media. NickyBe keeps…
Read More
7 questions with … Abdulaziz Saja
Abdulaziz Saja is general manager of Tabby, Saudi-based buy-now-pay-later platform operating in the kingdom and UAE. Last year, the application recorded 26 million clicks, its highest user engagement to date.…
Read More
7 questions with … Sachinn J. Laala
Sachinn J. Laala is CEO of Liquid, the region’s first independent agency specialising in shopper marketing, e-commerce content creation and e-distribution. The agency employs more than 100 employees across six…
Read MoreMost read
Customers want more immersive shopping experiences during Ramadan, says Samsung’s Shafi Alam 
Lulu Hypermarket launches AI chatbot on Whatsapp 
Retail spending in Mena to reach $66 billion this Ramadan: Redseer Consulting 
Ramadan 2023: more than a third of top Middle East retailers fail to protect customers against email fraud 
UAE social commerce industry to grow by 22 per cent, says report