Sharjah highlights business opportunities in key sectors
07 Feb 2021 A stupendous view of Sharjah Corniche.
German investors received a crash course in the investment opportunities abounding in Sharjah’s emerging industries at a high-profile business webinar organised by the Sharjah FDI Office (Invest in Sharjah), which operates under the Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq).
Highlighting Sharjah’s advantages in providing an impressive growth and expansion platform for German companies in a wide range of sectors, the webinar hosted a number of German businessmen and entrepreneurs who were introduced to the fast-growing business opportunities in the key emerging sectors of E-commerce, Health-tech, Edu-tech, Cybersecurity, Fintech, Smart Logistics, Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence and Cleantech, among many others.
IIS launches real-time mapping on foreign, domestic investment
03 Feb 2021 The investment portal provides real-time data on both FDI and domestic investment. The Sharjah FDI Office (Invest in Sharjah - IIS), operating under the Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq), has announced the launch of the Sharjah Investment Tracker, a plug-and-play website that publishes real time investment statistics of Sharjah and aims to map out the investment landscape in the emirate through analyzing FDI flows. Providing real-time data on both FDI and domestic investment, the investment portal will use a GIS (Geographic Information System) mapping tool to provide comprehensive site-specific data about the companies investing in the emirate.
The UAE emirate of Sharjah attracted 24 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects worth $220 million (AED 808.6 million) during 2020, as per a Wavteq study on Sharjah’s FDI annual performance.
Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) has announced that it had attracted 24 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects worth $220 million into the emirate in 2020, which it stated was one of the most challenging years in human history.