Lebanon Opportunities

Lebanon Opportunities is a monthly business magazine that covers: Finance, Real estate, Economy, and Local business. Lebanon Opportunities has tens of thousands of readers in Lebanon and across the globe. It is the prime local business magazine in Lebanon in terms of readership, advertising, and name-awareness. Lebanon Opportunities is written to a target of small business owners, entrepreneurs and middle management, as well as to Lebanese living abroad. It aims at bringing complex business issues in a simple manner understandable by readers who are not experts and whose English language is not the mother tongue.

Lebanon Opportunities

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IN BRIEF TIDBITS

BUSINESS

ECONOMY

FINANCE

MATTERS OF FACT

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE • The new bosses of the economy

NEW BORN COMPANIES

How to revive the economy • Revival without destruction

On superficial proposals • There is a plethora of proposals for solutions to the economic and financial crisis that is afflicting Lebanon and the nerves of depositors and their commercial, cultural, health, or touristic interests

Mixed prospects

Recession started in 2018 Inflation rose to 5.5 percent • National accounts published

The truth fills the streets • Let’s listen to this ‘civilized civil revolution’

Resident population at 4.8 million • Ageing, social trends, and emigration shrink household size

Cashing Value chain Outanalysis

Money heisted • How to free funds taken hostage by a bank

Parking funds in real estate • Payment challenging as demand rises

Buying fine art

Best practice for safe haven

Precious wearables • A push for jewelry and luxury watch market

High-end carpets are flying off the shelves

Supply is limited

Better go with preferred shares and Solidere • Government bonds deemed too risky in light of uncertainty regarding default

How safe is the safe?

Safes for burglary and fire

Safes for fires

End-of-year rising demand • Sales are up. Discounts are limited and the dollar is king

Banks facing storms

What did Riad Salameh say? • Deposits have dropped but banks are still resilient

Agriculture

Value chain analysis • Better products and prospects

Potatoes

Tomatoes

Dairy products

Zaatar and freekeh

Honey

Animal farm

Reaping the benefits • Saffron, safflower, medical and aromatic herbs are all feasible to cultivate on a large scale

New crops • Kale, little gem lettuce, oba leaf, berries, and jujube, amongst varieties proving successful

Renaissance for native grapes • Vintners are pushing forward with indigenous varietals, and wine lovers are responding

Planting the seeds of technology • Berytech is accelerating technical innovation

A rich harvest • Graduates from the Agrytech Program have worked on a broad range of solutions

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