“The Middle East has been a trading hub for centuries. Many generations have produced highly successful and specialized family enterprises. As a new generation of leaders return home from internal universities to head up mature and established family businesses, they are confronted with unique challenges to embrace globalization - integrating old with new, East with West” .
Istesharah has developed a step-by-step methodology to modernize family businesses, without disrupting their existing operations. Services offered to Family Enterprisess include restructuring across business units, corporate governance, roll-out of ERP systems, strategy, investment, turn-around’s, M&A, manpower planning and grading, etc.
Public Sector
“The commercialization of government assets has been instrumental for the GCC to avoid the introduction of a tax-regime and yet generate significant public sector income across GCC countries”.
Istesharah works closely with federal and local government departments to assist them in generating income from underutilized assets or commercializing government infrastructures towards generating revenues. Our services in this segment include strategy, business development and financial modeling.
Multi National Corporations
“Large MNC’s generally expand or relocate their sales & marketing or support offices to a Free Trade Zone in the Middle East.”
Istesharah assists MNC’s in assessing the legal implications for doing business from the various special economic zones across the GCC. Istesharah’s industry and free zone experts quantify the benefits, risks and costs setting up and running their particular business from a special economic zone.
Private Sector
“The GCC has become a fast paced business environment, in which flexibility and pragmatism are often more important than quality and sustainability. This delicate balance is challenging Boards and CEO’s alike and often requires out-of-the-box ways of solving old problems.”
The range of services offered to our SME’s and entrepreneurs include strategic positioning, financial modeling, scenario analysis, launch and project plans, product development, cost-volume-profit analysis, ratios analysis, etc.
