UGE -Tapping into the best of both worlds between Baku and Dubai

For more than 10 years I have been operating my UGE companies between Baku and Dubai, working with national and international partners, and where Dubai acts as a gateway to Baku just as Baku is a bridge to Dubai.

Let me explain what I mean and help make clear how we at Union Grand Energy are accelerating material exchanges, logistical services and learning between Baku and Dubai.

Our work in energy, construction, trade and technology development forms a natural synergy, between companies, cultures and markets-we transfer what we learn, apply and know from one location to the other.

It means that we have been able to attract high levels of national and international capital and investment.

We started with advanced computer electronics, which quickly became a model for further applications and high-tech services, trading and manufacturing.  Where we could we created the design and blueprints for these systems ourselves, and then 'exported' them to our other businesses. This kind of entrepreneurship helped our companies grow and expand in Baku, and have created a bigger more modern domestic marketplace.

It also makes us more innovative, open and competitive, where we know and understand how business gets done, working inside stable and predictable environments, where we welcome foreign investment.

What matters most to us wherever we are working is protecting and promoting the domestic interest of a country and public in all our ventures, helping support national economic and social fundamentals.

Thanks for reading,

Anar.

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Business in Baku, Business in Dubai

People ask me all the time about what it is like to do business in Baku and Dubai.

I remind them that we also have business activities in Turkey and Singapore, so we can say that we are really an international company increasingly doing business around the world.

I would say that Baku and Azerbaijan remain the place where we think of as home, where we develop and do our core business.

We are known in the Caspian region and CIS countries for the work we do in the energy industry. That means mainly production and exports. We have built our business as a leading seller of oil machinery and equipment. We are growing and expanding all the time, most recently into trademarked chemical manufacturing.

We have been active in Dubai for more than 10 years. We got started there in computer electronics. This became a model for us to move into other sectors. I can say that our companies were among the first from Azerbaijan to come and settle in Dubai. We are centralizing and coordinating more of our businesses from Dubai for the UAE and Gulf Region.

Our focus on trading is developing rapidly, with more and more activity being generated from the sale of petrochemical products, crude oil and oil equipment. Construction and real estate are also areas where we continue to develop and look for new opportunities.

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