MMI joint venture opens first Costa Coffee outlet in Pakistan

Notes and media contacts

About MMI:
MMI, a subsidiary of the Emirates Group, is a marketing services company providing marketing and distribution support to the leisure, corporate and consumer retail markets of the UAE and Oman. MMI operates five inter-related businesses - MMI Beverages, MMI Travel and Gulf Ventures, MMI Consumer, MMI Leisure and Costa Coffee, and OUA in Oman. The company represents and retails some of the world's best-known consumer brands, is the franchise holder for Costa Coffee in the UAE, and manages a number of own-brand bars and restaurants, including Left Bank, Seasons and Après. MMI Events creates, manages and supports some of the biggest entertainment and community events in the UAE. For further information please visit http://www.mmidubai.com.

About Costa Coffee:
Costa Coffee was formed by the Costa Brothers, Sergio and Bruno in 1971 in London as a wholesale operation supplying roasted coffee to caterers and coffee shops. In 1978, the Costa Brothers opened the first store in London and growth expanded rapidly. In 1999, MMI brought Costa to the Middle East and North African region with the first store being launched in Dubai. Today Costa has over a 400 stores in the UK and 100 across 9 countries in the MENA region.

About Gerry's:
Gerry's has the distinction of being one of the largest aviation groups in Pakistan and is now ranked as Pakistan's largest travel, air cargo, information technology, telecommunication and aviation concern. Employing staff strength of 1,300 people, Gerry's is honoured to represent a number of international airlines which include Virgin Atlantic, Kenya Airways, KLM, Royal Caribbean, Oman Air, Garuda Indonesia and Cyprus Airways. Through its nationwide network of offices, Gerry's Tours represent major international tour companies such as Royal Caribbean and Trafalgar Tours. The group also operate the Marhaba service in Pakistan's major international airports in a further collaboration with DNATA.

Gerry's also takes pride and pleasure to represent world renowned all cargo airline - FedEx Inc. offering air express and cargo services. In addition to GSA representation, Gerry's also maintains the country's only fully privatized ground-handling operation at all the major airports in Pakistan, under joint venture with DNATA, which is a part of the Emirates group. Included in the portfolio of Gerry's is an Information Technology company which includes Gerry's Net - an Internet Service Provider, Gerry's DSL- Broadband operator, Gerry's Satellite & Media- Telecom provider and Gerry's Softlogic. Gerry's are also the distributor for Dell Computers in Pakistan


For further information please contact:

Angela Manthorpe
MMI Dubai
Tel: +9714 209 5000
Fax: +971 4 225 1766


Synora Van Drine
Concept PR
Tel: +9714 390 3947
Fax: +9714 368 8053