The ETA Ascon and Star Group, our parent, is a trusted,
pre-eminent corporate entity in the Middle East. A highly diversified, multi-dimensional organization, its activities cover a wide range of areas from contracting and engineering, shipping and trading, manufacturing and assembling to facilities management, environment and automobiles, real estate, retail and leisure, education, healthcare, insurance, aviation and corporate services. These have in turn spawned a host of related businesses, each of them carving a niche of its own under the imposing ETA Ascon and Star banner. Established in the early 70s as a joint venture between the Al Ghurair Group and Amana Investments Limited of Hong Kong. The Dubai based ETA Ascon and Star Group have a network of 140 entities and associate offices in over 21 countries today. The Group employs over 73,000 people and its consolidated revenue for the year ending 2007 was in excess of US$ 5 billion.