27 per cent business registration applications routed through Emirates Post

Emirates Post also successfully completed payment transactions for almost 3000 applications including new licences, renewals, amendments and cancellations during the period of promotion from March 5 to May 31, 2005.

Applications received through Emirates Post accounted for almost 27 per cent of the total applications received by the business registration division at the Department as 11,011 applications were received at the DED offices during this period. The DED and Emirates Post had launched a 11-week joint campaign to route business registration procedures through Emirates Post offices in order to offer greater convenience to investors and enable them to save their valuable time.

"We are immensely pleased with the results of this campaign as it has achieved its objective of implementing investor friendly policies by simplifying our business registration procedures," said Mr. Ali Ibrahim, Deputy Director General for Executive Affairs, DED. "The DED is focused on offering better services to investors by reducing people throughput at the DED offices and saving investors' valuable time. We will continue to encourage investors to route business registration procedures through Emirates Post offices as this will give the DED a chance to develop further value-added services for our valued customers," he added.

Commenting on the results of the promotion, Mr. Abdulla Al Daboos, Director General, Emirates Post, said: "This is one of the most significant non-postal services being offered by Emirates Post, in an attempt to make our post offices one-stop shops for all types of services. We are very happy with the tremendous response this promotion has generated as it is evidence that there is a vital need to continually ease procedures and smoothen the process of business registration," he added

The promotion also enabled a total of 30 lucky investors to receive prizes from five raffle draws. The results of the final draw were also announced at the close of the promotion with the names of eight winning organizations being picked through an electronic draw conducted at the Emirates Post in the presence of officials from the DED.