MEA UAE Business Awards 2017

104 MEA MARKETS / UAE BUSINESS AWARDS 2017 , UA170082 The Umdasch Shopfitting Group is a leading European shop fitting company which draws on its vast experience fromalmost 150 years of corporate history and focuses on the sectors Lifestyle Retail, Food Retail, PremiumRetail &Digital Retail. Best Shop Fitting Company 2017 Umdasch Shopfitting Middle East has a dedicated team of approx 120 Employees locally available and experience with projects in the Middle East since 1985. The regional headquarters and local factory of the firm is based in Dubai and applies European quality understanding balanced with a local cost structure, which is vital to meet the needs of its clients, as their local Marketing Executive Esther discusses. “The Umdasch Group, comprised of the Doka Group and the Umdasch Shopfitting Group, is an international enterprise. Our range of products and services in the fields of formwork technology and shop fitting are specifically geared to the requirements of our customers. The quality of our work, our reliability of delivery, as well as our competitiveness form the basis for our success. Within the constraints of an ever-changing market, it is our innovation strength especially through new technologies and interactive integrations, flexibility and close customer contact that enables us to profit from market opportunities. Thus creating and securing greater sustainable benefit for our customers and other interested parties.” As a business we are always in a position to understand our customers and offer them the best possible solution for their individual store development needs. Operating in a global market, Umdasch sees their key focus in customer service. Refined quality management processes go in accord and beyond international and local standards to ensure absolute reliability when it comes to client satisfaction. Investments in a continuous improvement process are at the core of the firm’s operations, as Patrick Fallmann, Managing Director concludes. “Ultimately, we take great pleasure in our success as a company, and seek to continue to cultivate this by working with enthusiasm every day to fulfil the requirements and needs of our customers and what the future holds. Our customer’s success provides the basis for the long term stability and development of our company. In addition to this, Umdasch Shopfitting plans on expanding within the GCC region, which will provide us with many great opportunities to grow and support a new client base.” Company: Umdasch Shopfitting LLC Contact: Esther Roy Email: [email protected] Address: 22nd Street. Al Quoz Industrial Area 3, Dubai, P.O. Box 182774, UAE Phone: 00971 4 3417715 UA170003 WEDDINGSONLINE DMCC is an innovative online wedding services specialist dedicated to supporting clients through every step of planning their big day. We spoke to DavidMoore to gain a fascinating insight into the firmand the services it offers. Best Online Wedding Services Platform 2017 Following in the footsteps of the firm’s existing wedding websites in Ireland and India, weddingsonline.ae launched in 2014, giving brides and grooms- to-be creative inspiration and useful information for planning every step of their big day. The website guides couples who are planning to tie-the-knot in the UAE or abroad through the whole process. The website also shares ideas and advice by offering access to a host of planning tools and relevant articles, all tailored for this region. David discusses how the platform allows hosts to easily and conveniently plan every aspect of their wedding. “Here at WEDDINGSONLINE we are here to alleviate wedding stress and to give couples the support and guidance they need to plan their wedding day. We pride ourselves on being targeted in the requests and data we share with our clients, to avoid spamming our engaged couples with information which does not meet their needs, and ensuring the quality and relevancy of the leads we deliver. We take the same approach in the marketing of weddingsonline.ae , whether it be Google AdWords or Facebook ads manager, we always strive to directly target our market of engaged couples and wedding industry professionals, thus driving interested traffic to the website and increasing our conversion rate.” The success the firm has enjoyed so far in the UAE has led it to explore more opportunities in the MEA region as it seeks to build upon its current success and grow even further, as David concludes. “Over the three years that we have been operating in the UAE market, we have seen website traffic increase to include the entire MENA region, inciting us to begin the initial steps into launching our second office in the region in Egypt later this year. We are also looking to expand into other countries with another possible office being in KSA in 2018. “During this time, we have also grown to understand clearly the diversity in the wedding market in the UAE specifically, due to the many nationalities and cultures of those who reside here. We are continuously adapting our content and approach to encompass these diversities, to ensure that our website and brand is relatable to our community of brides and grooms.” Company: WEDDINGSONLINE DMCC Contact: David Moore Email: [email protected] Address: DMCC Jumeirah Lakes Towers, Dubai, UAE Phone: 00 971 50 957 9234 Website: www.weddingsonline.ae