Tejari, the Middle East’s online marketplace, received the Dubai Quality Appreciation Award yesterday, an award from Dubai’s Department of Economic Development (DED) in recognition of its outstanding contribution to the UAE’s growing business arena. The annual Dubai Quality Awards were held on Sunday, 12 March under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al Maktoum.
The honour, which was made on behalf of DED by the Dubai Quality Group (DQG), was received by Tejari CEO Omar Hijazi following an intense period of growth for the online marketplace, which will see its membership grow from more than 4,000 traders to 50,000+ following the integration between Tejari and the DED.
Dubai Quality Awards annual program, which honours companies if they are assessed to have met and surpassed international business standards in a variety of fields, has the primary aim of raising the performance level of the UAE’s business environment.
“Tejari is extremely honoured to be recognised for initiating and maintaining the region’s most influential eCommerce service, which enables thousands of organizations in the UAE to bring their businesses online to make the ideal match in terms of supplier or buyer partnerships,” commented Tejari CEO Omar Hijazi.
“By enabling buyers and sellers to transact and share information about goods and services via a secure Internet environment, Tejari has become an indispensable marketing and sales tool for our trading partners. We are currently witnessing Tejari’s most vital period of growth in our six-year history,” Hijazi added.
A number of Tejari initiatives launched in the last year caught the attention of the Dubai Quality Group, including the online marketplace’s continued push for regional and international expansion, the range of new services that Tejari is developing for its community, and Tejari’s partnerships with organizations like the Dubai Multi Commodities Center to enable more industry-specific solutions for trading partners.
“Tejari’s year-on-year growth pattern since our inception in 2000 has been robust and this recognition from the Dubai Quality Group both validates our business strategy and encourages even more rigorous results for Tejari as the de facto online business-to-business marketplace in the Middle East,” commented Abdulla Salman, Tejari’s Marketing Director.
Tejari is the Middle East’s premier online business-to-business marketplace. Tejari enables buyers and sellers to transact and share information about a variety of goods and services via a secured Internet environment. Tejari provides a single point of contact for an open and growing community of buyers and suppliers, permitting spot-purchasing and on-line auctions that enable participants’ real-time access to new markets and greater cost savings. Visit Tejari at http://www.tejari.com
The Dubai Quality Group was set up as a non profit business organisation by the Department of Economic Development under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum. The Group offers many programmes throughout the year with the objective of improving Quality and Service among its member organizations. Since inception in February 1994, the DQG has grown to include more than 1,500 individuals representing over 300 prominent organisations from both the private and the public sectors. The DQG organises activities aimed at developing the professional and managerial expertise of individuals.
The Group's offices are located in Emarat Atrium on Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, where facilities include a fully equipped library & conference room. Membership is open to all companies, regardless of size.
