Dubai Industrial Metropolis attracted greater than AED 350 million in investments from the meals and beverage (F&B) sector in 2024, the area’s main industrial and logistics ecosystem introduced on the side-lines of Gulfood, going down at Dubai World Commerce Centre on 17-21 February.
Reflecting the regional sector’s development, Dubai Industrial Metropolis, certainly one of TECOM Group PJSC’s 10 enterprise districts, attracted greater than 25 F&B prospects leasing 1.7 million sq.ft. of high-quality industrial areas in 2024, reaffirming enterprise confidence in Dubai’s place as a hub for innovation and market enlargement.
“Localised manufacturing is crucial to drive socioeconomic prosperity by the F&B sector,” mentioned Saud Abu Alshawareb, Government Vice President of Industrial at TECOM Group, on behalf of Dubai Industrial Metropolis. “We should nurture holistic worth chains to underpin the sustainable development and long-term safety of our meals inventory, according to the long-term targets of the UAE’s Nationwide Meals Safety Technique 2051. Dubai Industrial Metropolis’s sector-specific infrastructure and nurturing atmosphere are geared to facilitate this development, contributing to the overarching targets of Operation 300bn and Make it within the Emirates.
“We’re fostering innovation and supporting F&B enterprise development from our metropolis to the world, in our alignment with the Dubai Financial Agenda ‘D33’, and can proceed to allow their long-term contributions for future generations.”
Landmark investments
Notable F&B investments at Dubai Industrial Metropolis final 12 months included Silver Line Gate Group’s (SLG Group) built-in hub, to supply greater than 100,000 tonnes of dairy merchandise, together with milk product and butter, annually. SLG Group has commenced development on the manufacturing, warehouse, and company workplace facility that can open this 12 months.
Pure Ice Cream, the producer of manufacturers equivalent to Kwality Ice Lotions and Hershey’s Ice Cream, additionally signed a musataha settlement in 2024 to launch a manufacturing facility at Dubai Industrial Metropolis. The power might be among the many UAE’s largest ice cream factories upon launch in 2026, growing Pure Ice Cream’s annual capability by 300%.
Dubai Industrial Metropolis is situated near Al Maktoum Worldwide Airport, Jebel Ali Port, an Etihad Rail freight terminal, and key regional roadways. Its strategic proximity to important transport networks, alongside an clever masterplan that includes six sector-specific zones, nurture the round financial system by eliminating waste and inspiring resource-sharing.
The district’s newly attracted F&B investments replicate the attraction of Dubai Industrial Metropolis’s sector-specific infrastructure, together with land and storage and logistics areas, to speed up business development. Dubai Industrial Metropolis additionally signed a strategic partnership with the UAE’s Ministry of Local weather Change and Setting (MOCCAE) in the course of the launch of its Make Brilliance world consciousness marketing campaign in 2023 to advertise superior manufacturing and sustainable practices within the F&B and agriculture sectors.
Greater than 1,100 native, regional, and worldwide manufacturing champions, together with Asmak, Patchi, Al Barakah Dates, and Sokovo are among the many prospects based mostly at Dubai Industrial Metropolis, alongside greater than 350 operational factories. Collectively, this group of producing giants produces over 70 megawatts in clear power annually, with the district’s environmental contributions additional benefiting from Dubai Industrial Metropolis’s memorandum of understanding with world expertise firm Siemens. Signed throughout Dubai Industrial Metropolis’s twentieth anniversary celebrations in 2024, the settlement seeks to nurture industrial efficiencies to allow long-term sustainable growth.
Dubai Industrial Metropolis is a part of TECOM Group’s portfolio of enterprise districts that embody Dubai Web Metropolis, Dubai Media Metropolis, Dubai Studio Metropolis, Dubai Manufacturing Metropolis, Dubai Information Park, Dubai Worldwide Tutorial Metropolis, Dubai Design District (d3), and Dubai Science Park.
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