Audi sponsors St Andrews Ball

Audi Oman has sponsored the annual St Andrews Ball hosted by the Caledonian Society of Oman recently at the Intercontinental Hotel – helping the event to raise thousands of rials for charitable causes. Marjorie Gardyne, the head of the Caledonian Society Committee, welcomed the support from Audi saying, “The Society is very pleased at the fabulous support that Audi Oman has given this year’s event and I would like to thank them for their commitment towards us and helping us in our bid to use this event to raise money to support so many worthy causes and charities in Oman.” Omani charities supported by the Caledonian Society include UNICEF Oman, the Rustaq Leprosy Clinic, wheelchairs for the disabled and the Oman Paralympics team.

 
Starcare to launch ‘Healthy New Year; Happy New Year’

Starcare hospital brings in a new slogan “Healthy New Year; Happy New Year’ aimed at encouraging citizens to include healthcare in their New Year resolutions list. “The simple doctrine behind this is “Invest in your health and discover happiness” and at Starcare, we believe in the importance of preventive medicine to help you stay in the pink of health,” avers Dr Askar Kukkadi, medical director at Starcare Hospital. “We strongly believe that health screening should be made available for everyone and we bring to you a wide range of privileges and packages to best manage your health this New Year”, adds K Jayan, general manager, Starcare Health Systems.

 
MSE wins Philips Lighting award

Mustafa Sultan Electronics Lighting Unit won the award for “Best Energy Efficiency Initiative – 2011” in the recently held Partnership Programme conducted by Philips Lighting in Dubai. Paolo Cervini, general manager, Philips Lighting Middle East & Turkey presented the award to the MSE team. All the distributors from GCC and Levant attended the Partnership Programme in Dubai and Philips presented a few of the partners with awards for their outstanding work in 2011. The award given to MSE was in recognition of their outstanding work done in promoting CFL-I (energy savers) in 2011 through various institutions, retail and distribution network.

 
Mitsubishi rewards top performers

The parts department of Mitsubishi Oman has rewarded its top performing branches and staff at a seminar held to review sales performance and ways to enhance the excellent performance of the department. The company has a comprehensive network of 24 parts branches located across the Sultanate designed to keep Mitsubishi owners happy and on the road. The branches identified as the best performing ones (Wadi Kabir, Mabellah, Thumrait, Samail and Al Khadra) were congratulated for their excellent work and consistently high levels of customer service. Operational excellence among individuals was also recognised and Safiya Al Shaabi received a special award for her significant contribution in ensuring the increased availability of Mitsubishi parts in the Athaibah branch.

 
Merge 104.8 bags Gemas Effie Mena Award

Merge 104.8 has picked up a top marketing award at the prestigious Gemas Effie Mena Awards 2011, held recently at a glitzy ceremony in Dubai. The highly regarded global marketing awards recognise the effectiveness of campaigns and brands, and aim to reward the marketing communications industry for their creative ability and marketing prowess. Merge 104.8 received the bronze award for its achievements in the Media category, and given credit for the success of the new radio station, a mere six months old. Eihab Abutaha, CEO-Communications, SABCO Group, says, “In just six months, Merge 104.8 has established a strong community foothold, and is now being recognised for our marketing achievements in the international arena.”

 
Comes new Samsung 300V5A

The Samsung 300V5A, 15.6” Notebook is designed to appeal to a wide range of people from students to social networking enthusiasts, from the home office to the business enterprises. It comes in both i5 & i7 processors. The i5 processor model comes in four colours (black, blue, pink and orange). The Intel Core i5 processor is one of Intel’s recent innovations, which offers smart performance with a speed boost. This processor delivers solid performance for day-to-day applications, not to mention its ability to increase speed as required for the more demanding tasks. And already, it’s being touted as the mainstream version of Intel Core i7. The system comes equipped with 15.6-inch display, built-in Bluetooth, V3.0 high speed connectivity, WiFI with gigabit ethernet LAN for faster connect to the network and internet.

OAB implements advanced IT services

Microsoft Gulf announced that Oman Arab Bank had implemented a diverse array of Microsoft solutions to build an innovative and sophisticated IT infrastructure capable of supporting its retail and corporate customer base and real-time integration with B2B and B2G e-government systems. This has helped the bank to enhance its operational system, maximise efficiencies and optimise its IT infrastructure to support a dynamic operating environment and various
business requirements.

Konica Minolta holds ME conference

Konica Minolta, the Japanese printer and copier manufacturer held its their sixth annual Middle East distributors’ conference in Oman recently. The conference was attended by business heads of all the distributors in the region, senior management from Konica Minolta Business Technologies head quarters in Japan and their regional Middle East office. Konica Minolta, which is distributed by Mohsin Haider Darwish (MHD) in Oman, currently has about 30 per cent of the market share of printers and copiers in the country, said company officials. Konica Minolta is one of the leaders in the colour office range of products and has made successful inroads in the light and production printing targeting professional printers.