News: Portfolio 2006

Tollgrade Communications Invests in BPL Global

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About Al-Deera Holding

Al-Deera Holding is a Kuwait-based shareholding company that transacts a range of business activities including ownership of shares in Kuwaiti and foreign shareholding companies, acquisition of properties and buildings, acquisition of industrial rights and related intellectual property, the extension and loans to companies in which it owns an equity share. The company's transnational alliances, strategic investments and diversified portfolio has helped position it as an investment market leader. By expanding its operations beyond MENA region, to Europe and USA, the company has been able to enhance its leverage power in major infrastructural projects.

About International Financial Advisors

International Financial Advisors is one of the leading Kuwaiti shareholding companies with a paid-up capital of $156 million. Since its inception in 1974, the company has adopted a number of strategies that contributed to the rapid expansion of the company's operations on both the regional and international levels. While IFA's global investment strategy aimed at mitigating risk to a minimum by means of geographical diversification, its approach to local investments has focused more on asset management, funds, portfolios and direct investments. IFA is currently working on establishing a new company that would provide aviation services to business executives at a short notice. This venture is to start initially with a fleet of four Bombardiers with a capacity of nine to twelve passengers on each flight. IFA is also the main shareholder of IFA Hotels & Resorts (IFA HR) a leading developer of premier integrated and mixed-use hotel and tourism resort projects throughout Europe, the Middle East, the Indian Ocean region and Africa. IFA Hotels & Resorts (South Africa), a subsidiary, listed on the JSE Limited on February 27, 2006.

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