City of Arabia awards contract to Keir Dubai LLC

Notes and media contacts

For more information on City of Arabia please contact:
Jane Daly
Account Manager
GolinHarris
Capricorn Tower, 7th Floor
Sheikh Zayed Road
P.O.Box 116462 Dubai, UAE
t: +971.4.332 3308 ext: 204
m: +971.50.6553084
f: +971.4.331 6733

Martina Rohel
Ilyas & Mustafa Galadari Group
PO Box 114444, Dubai, UAE
Tel: +9714-3311022
Fax: +9714-3322311
Or call toll free on 800-8-800

Ilyas & Mustafa Galadari Group

The Ilyas and Mustafa Galadari Group is a dynamic young company owning a number of diversified companies in Dubai. The most high profile of these, the Ilyas and Mustafa Galadari Management Investment and Development Company, is developing the key downtown area of Dubailand, the City of Arabia.

Sunseeker Middle East has now joined the Ilyas and Mustafa Galadari Group, who have declared their intention of increasing the market in the Gulf and Levant for yachts across the whole Sunseeker range, from 35 feet to 120 ft in length. The IMG Group is also a major player on the Dubai transport scene. It owns a large taxi-fleet, Metro Taxi, with an associated driving school, the Galadari Motor Driving Centre, and workshops, (the Metro Auto Repairing Branch), which together operate over 1100 vehicles of all descriptions. In addition the Group owns one of the largest cold stores complexes in Dubai. Ilyas and Mustafa Galadari also own a jewelry company, which deals in gems and precious stones, a kitchen equipment company, and a company which supplies upholstery to the automotive, boating and hospitality sectors, and specializes in customizing Range Rovers, Mercedes, BMWs and other luxury cars.

Leighton Asia
Leighton Asia operates through two separate operating entities, Leighton Asia (Southern) which covers operations in Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India and the Arabian Gulf and Leighton Asia (Northern) which covers operations in Hong Kong, China, Macau, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

The two companies achieve combined annual revenue of more than A$1 billion (US$750 million) and employ over 4,000 staff across Asia. Leighton Asia (Northern) and Leighton Asia (Southern) are part of the Leighton Group, Australia's largest project development and contracting group with annual revenues of over A$6 billion (US$5 billion).

For further information visit www.leightonasia.com or www.leighton.com.au

Kier Group plc

Kier Group plc is a leading construction, development and services group specializing in building and civil engineering, support services, private house building, property development and the Private Finance Initiative. The Group employs over 8,000 people worldwide and has an annual turnover in excess of £1.6bn.

For further information on Kier Group, visit www.kier.co.uk