ANAROCK Bolsters Middle East operations with strategic leadership appointments amid market revival
Anuj Kejriwal and Aayush Puri to scale Firm’s institutional and residential RE services capabilities in EMEA
May13th 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Leading independent real estate consultant ANAROCK Group today announced key leadership changes to strengthen its growth in the Middle East region. With an eye on post-conflict revival, ANAROCK is doubling down on its investment in this market with a comprehensive deck of institutional advisory capabilities in Dubai. The Firm will aggressively expand into the wider Middle East and eventually European markets.
Hotpack honoured at ‘Make it in the Emirates 2026’ summit for outstanding contributions to UAE’s industrial growth
Recognition at the UAE’s flagship industrial summit highlights Hotpack’s three-decade contribution to sustainable manufacturing, innovation, and the nation’s industrial growth journey.
Dubai, UAE – May 12, 2026: Hotpack, a UAE-headquartered global leader in sustainable packaging solutions, has been recognised as part of the UAE’s industrial development timeline at the recently concluded ‘Make it in the Emirates 2026’ summit in Abu Dhabi. As part of the recognition, the summit featured Hotpack within the House of Industries showcase, highlighting the company’s outstanding contributions to the UAE’s industrial growth over the past 30 years.
The ‘Make it in the Emirates 2026’, organised under the UAE’s industrial strategy “Operation 300Bn”, led by the UAE Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT), is the UAE’s national initiative and flagship industrial and manufacturing exhibition aimed at boosting local production, advanced manufacturing, innovation, and industrial investment.
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Dubai, UAE., – May 12, 2026 – J.P. Morgan Private Bank today released its 2026 Mid-Year Global Investment Outlook, Promise and Pressure, an examination of the forces reshaping global markets at the midpoint of a pivotal year.
New UAE advisory firm Aethra targets gaps in global hiring and mobility strategy
Dubai, UAE, 11 May 2026: Aethra Advisory, a global hiring strategy & mobility architecture practice, has launched in the UAE as the first independent advisory practice dedicated to helping organisations design their global hiring infrastructure. The business will support founders, HR leaders, scale-up operators, and strategic decision-makers across UAE companies expanding internationally and global businesses entering the UAE, and wider Middle East, helping them navigate cross-border hiring, employment models, mobility programs, and compliance risk in an increasingly global workforce environment.
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Aethra Advisory enters the market at a time when more companies are hiring across borders before they have built the systems needed to support those decisions. Many organisations still select Employer of Record (EOR) platforms, vendors, visa routes, or employment structures based on speed, only discovering compliance gaps, cost leakage, or operational limitations months later. Aethra sits at the architecture stage, helping leaders make structural decisions before vendors and execution routes are selected. As the global cross-border workforce and migration solutions market is projected to reach $11.37 billion by 2033, growing at an annual rate of 11.8%, this advisory layer is becoming important for companies that need global workforce models built for scale rather than short-term hiring fixes.
The company works upstream of execution, helping companies define where to hire, how to hire, which infrastructure to use, and where risk may emerge. Its services include Global Hiring Blueprint, Mobility Program Design, and Founder Advisory, covering areas such as EOR versus entity decisions, country decision matrices, immigration pathway design, vendor ecosystem strategy, compliance architecture, mobility policies, and 12-month hiring roadmaps.The practice is self-funded, allowing Aethra to provide independent guidance on employee relocation and global mobility cases for UAE-based and international firms.
Sonam Haider, Founder and Global Mobility Strategist, Aethra Advisory, said: “Companies often treat global hiring as a vendor selection exercise, when the real issue is whether the structure can hold under scale. The UAE currently holds the highest hiring sentiment globally, with 56% of employers planning workforce expansion, but growth at this pace can expose weak EOR models, unclear worker classification, poor market entry choices, and fragmented mobility processes. The gaps usually only surface more than a year later. Aethra Advisory gives leaders an independent view before those decisions become difficult and expensive to reverse.”
Palm fronds from UAE pavilion to support community centre in earthquake-affected Wajima, Japan
Materials from Expo 2025 Osaka Pavilion to be repurposed for community use, reinforcing UAE–Japan collaboration
Tokyo, Japan / Abu Dhabi, UAE, May 11, 2026: Date palm materials from the United Arab Emirates Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai are being repurposed for the construction of a community centre in Wajima City on Japan’s Noto Peninsula, supporting rebuilding efforts following the 2024 earthquake.
Date palm fronds used in the Pavilion have been carefully salvaged and processed into strand boards, which are now being considered for use in the community centre’s walls. The Pavilion’s remaining Datecrete paving blocks, a UAE-developed innovative material derived from crushed date seeds and reclaimed palm fronds, will be used for paving applications within the project.
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