Dabur Egypt launches DermoViva for first time in Egypt

 

July 18, 2017

In a move to gain further regional and global success, Dabur Egypt Limited, the leading Egyptian manufacturer of personal and healthcare products, recently launched its new ‘DermoViva’ Brand in the local market, during a special ceremony held at the Hotel Intercontinental Cairo Semiramis and in the presence of the company’s senior executives, partners, and distributors, to expand its current share and broaden its customer base.

Country Manager Anoop Sharma graced the event to highlight the main features of Dabur Egypt’s new marketing plan designed to further reinforce the company’s market presence. He added that more strategic partnerships will be continuously pursued to widen the reach of the flagship Amla, Vatika, FEM, Miswak, Hooby, and DermoViva brands, among others. The gathering also highlighted Dabur Egypt’s current local market standing and future growth plans, in addition to its wide-ranging product portfolio, from hair to skin to oral care products.

Moheb Kaiser, Marketing Director, Dabur Egypt Limited, said: “We are pleased to announce the launch of DermoViva herbal skin care products in the Egyptian market, particularly the DermoViva Face Wash Range.

The introduction of this one-of-a-kind beauty product, which is formulated and infused with natural ingredients to achieve naturally beautiful skin, is a major step towards meeting the emerging needs of our regional customers. Moreover, our gathering served as a perfect opportunity to honor our partners and distributors in Egypt for their continual support and valuable contribution to Dabur Egypt’s excellent market status. The company is now synonymous with excellence and quality in the personal and healthcare product segment. On this occasion, we would like to extend our sincere gratitude and appreciation to them, with their efforts and achievements contributing to the 24 per cent net sales profit growth attained during the previous fiscal year. We aim to increase our market share further this year by launching the new DermoViva Brand. We are confident that the Egyptian market will warmly welcome our latest range of skincare products.”

Fully owned by Dabur International Group, Dabur Egypt Limited commenced its operations in Egypt in 1996, introducing key personal and healthcare products in various categories such as hair care serums, shampoo, and skincare and oral products. Elsewhere, the company has successfully established its presence in Morocco and other countries in Central Africa. The company’s promotional and advertising campaigns in the Middle East have also been endorsed by Arab celebrities, including Ferial Youssef, Ola Ghanem, Diana Karazon, Dina Hayek, DorraZarrouk, Mai Selim, Huda Haddad, Razan Maghrabi, and Maria.  

"دابر إيجيبت" تطلق علامتها التجارية "ديرموفيفا" في السوق المصرية

18 يوليو 2017

استكمالاً لنجاحاتها المتلاحقة في الأسواق الإقليمية والعالمية، احتفت "دابر إيجيبت ليمتد" (Dabur Egypt Limited)، الشركة الرائدة في مجالي العناية الشخصية والصحية في مصر، مؤخراً بإطلاق علاماتها التجارية "ديرموفيفاDermoviva " في السوق المصرية في خطوة توسعية طموحة لخدمة شريحة أوسع من العملاء. وجاء ذلك خلال حفل خاص أقيم في "فندق سميراميس إنتركونتيننتال القاهرة" بحضور نخبةٌ من كبار المسؤولين والشركاء والموزّعين لدى "دابر إيجيبت"، وعلى رأسهم أنوب شارما، رئيس مجلس الإدارة، الذي استعرض أبرز الملامح المميزة للخطة التسويقية الجديدة التي تنتهجها الشركة لتعزيز حضورها القوي، مؤكداً التزامها المستمر ببناء شراكات إستراتيجية متينة مع الشركاء والموزّعين لدعم علاماتها التجارية الرائدة، بما فيها "أملا" و"فاتيكا" و"فيم" و"مسواك" و"هوبي" و"ديرموفيفا".

وتخلل الحفل تسليط الضوء على الأداء القوي لـ "دابر إيجيبت" ضمن السوق المحلية وخططها التنموية المستقبلية. وجرى أيضاً التعريف بمحفظتها المتكاملة من المنتجات عالية الجودة والتي تشمل العناية بالشعر والبشرة والأسنان.

وقال محب قيصر، مدير قسم التسويق لدى شركة "دابر إيجيبت ليمتد": "يسعدنا إطلاق مجموعة "ديرموفيفا " للعناية بالبشرة و خاصة ديرموفيفا غسول الوجه بالمكونات الطبيعية  ضمن السوق المصرية، في دفعة قوية لتطلعاتنا الطموحة في تلبية احتياجات قاعدتنا المتنامية من العملاء ضمن الأسواق الإقليمية الواعدة. وشكل حفل الإطلاق فرصة مثالية لتكريم شركائنا وموزّعينا في مصر، تعبيراً عن شكرنا وامتناننا لدعمهم المتواصل ومساهماتهم القيّمة في ترسيخ مكانة "دابر إيجيبت" كإسم مرادف للتميز والجودة في عالم العناية الشخصية والصحية. ونثمن عالياً دور كل من ساهم في نجاحنا بتسجيل نمو إيجابي في مبيعاتنا خلال السنة المالية الفائتة، الأمر الذي انعكس إيجاباً على صافي الربح الذي ارتفع بنسبة 24%. ونتطلع بثقة حيال منتجات "ديرموفيفا" التي نتوقع أن تشهد إقبالاً كبيراً في مصر، لا سيّما وأنها تضم تشكيلة واسعة من منتجات العناية بالبشرة، في خطوة داعمة لخطّتنا الطموحة لزيادة حصّتنا السوقية خلال العام الجاري."

ويجدر الذكر بأنّ "دابر إيجيبت ليمتد" هي شركة مملوكة بالكامل لمجموعة "دابر إنترناشيونال". وبدأت الشركة عملياتها التشغيلية في مصر في العام 1996 في مجال تطوير المنتجات الطبيعية للعناية الصحية والشخصية، بما في ذلك زيوت الشعر والشامبو ومنتجات العناية بالبشرة والأسنان. وتحظى الشركة أيضاً بحضورٍ قويٍ في الأسواق المجاورة مثل المغرب ودول أخرى في أفريقيا الوسطى. وتتميز الحملات الترويجية للشركة في منطقة الشرق الأوسط بمشاركة عدد من أهم المشاهير العرب، بمن فيهم فريال يوسف وعلا غانم وديانا كرزون ودينا حايك ودرّة زروق ومي سليم وهدى حداد ورزان مغربي وماريا.

Sheraton Cairo Hotel & Casino Welcomes its First Guest

CAIRO, EGYPT— July 18^th, 2017 — The iconic Sheraton Cairo Hotel & Casino welcomed its first guest soon after it reopened its doors after extensive renovations. Mr. Mohamed Adel Ahmed Kaid, a Yemeni citizen, was the first guest to book a room at the hotel, a city landmark of more than four decades. Formerly a regular guest at the Sheraton Cairo Hotel & Casino, Mr. Kaid learned about the hotel’s reopening through social media and wanted to be amongst the first to stay at the newly reopened hotel. He was the first to see and experience the hotel's newly renovated rooms and suites, enjoy the Sheraton Signature Sleep Experience, indulge in sumptuous cuisine from the hotel's wide array of restaurants, and revel in a variety of superior amenities, all while perched on the West Bank of the Nile River and delivered with the hallmark Sheraton Service the brand is renowned for.

فندق وكازينو شيراتون القاهرة يرحب بأول نزلائه

القاهرة، مصر في 18 يوليو 2017- بعد التجديدات الشاملة التي شهدها فندق وكازينو شيراتون القاهرة قبل إعادة افتتاحه مؤخراً، رحّب الفندق بالسيد/ محمد عادل أحمد قايد، يمني الجنسية، ليكون أول نزلاء الفندق الذي يُعد من أهم معالم مدينة القاهرة على مدى أربعة عقود. كان السيد/ قايد من النزلاء المنتظمين للفندق من قبل، وحرص على الإقامة به خلال زيارته لمدينة القاهرة بعد أن علم بإعادة افتتاحه من خلال وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي. وبذلك أصبح السيد/ قايد أول نزيل يقيم بالغرف والأجنحة المجددة بالكامل، ويستمتع بالنوم الهادئ على الأسرة المريحة التي يشتهر بها فندق شيراتون Sheraton Signature Sleep Experience، ويتذوق ألذ الأطباق التي تقدمها مطاعم الفندق، ويقضي أسعد الأوقات في المنشآت الفندقية الفاخرة التي يضمها. يتمتع فندق وكازينو شيراتون القاهرة بموقع فريدً على الجانب الغربي من نهر النيل، ويقدم باقة متكاملة من خدمات شيراتون الحصرية.   

IRC PRESIDENT DAVID MILIBAND TO RICH COUNTRIES IN AN INTERVIEW IN CAIRO REVIEW TODAY: “BE GOOD AT WELCOMING REFUGEES”

July 18, 2017, Cairo – International Rescue Committee President David Miliband said in an interview published today in the Cairo Review of Global Affairs that wealthy Western countries and Gulf states should open their doors to more refugees.

Miliband, who served as British foreign secretary from 2007 to 2010, applauded nations providing humanitarian aid to address what he called “unprecedented flows of people” since World War II. But, he added, “It’s not enough to be a good aid provider. You, richer countries, Western countries, should be good at welcoming refugees as well.”

The fact that only 120,000 places were available for refugee settlement in 2016 “is very damaging, both substantively and symbolically,” Miliband said. “The traditionally big donors in the West have their own economic challenges that have led to a philosophy of quote-unquote ‘charity begins at home,’” he explained. “I would say to people, you should be careful, while charity begins at home, it mustn’t end at home.”

Miliband said he was worried that President Donald Trump’s plan to curb refugee admissions into the United States could have a symbolic, domino effect. “We are concerned that something which was bipartisan and successful in America is going to become partisan and less successful,” Miliband said. “It’s perfectly reasonable for any U.S. administration to review the security procedures, but there’s no need for them to suspend the program as they are seeking to do.”

Miliband, interviewed for the Summer 2017 edition of the Cairo Review, cautioned that global humanitarian policy needs to shift from focusing on short-term survival to long-term displacement. “The system has an implicit or explicit assumption—that people will go back—but actually we are living in a world where displacement is long term, displacement is urban, and people don’t actually go back,” he said.

Thus, Miliband added, policies are needed to help refugees thrive. “That means education, employment, become extra important,” he said. “That’s not what the humanitarian sector has been practicing in over the last forty or fifty years.”

The Cairo Review of Global Affairs is the quarterly journal of AUC’s School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP). The journal is available online at www.thecairoreview.com.

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ManageEngine Adds Enhanced Troubleshooting Features to Desktop Central

Lets IT Admins Provide Better Assistance Using Voice and Video Chat, Remote Registry Access and More

1.      Adds chat options, remote registry access, and multi-monitor support to troubleshooting toolset

2.      Now supports business app deployment for Linux operating systems

3.      Download a free, 30-day trial of Desktop Central at http://ow.ly/pw3Y30dCn6a

 

Dubai, UAE— July 20, 2017 — ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced the addition of enhanced tools to its endpoint management solution, Desktop Central. Available immediately, these new tools allow IT admins to troubleshoot remote computers using voice and video chat, control multiple monitors while troubleshooting, and manage computers’ registry keys remotely. Desktop Central has expanded the scope of desktop management with support for Linux software deployment as well.

Based on analysis by Jeff Rumburg, co-founder and managing partner at MetricNet, enterprises in North America spend on average $118 per service request ticket, taking one and a half to two hours to resolve each ticket. With enhanced tools like voice and video calls and multi-monitor troubleshooting options, enterprises can drastically reduce the cost per ticket and average resolution time. Spending less time on each ticket, IT admins can improve their productivity in the long run.

“Enhanced SLA resolution time combined with a lower cost per ticket can dramatically increase a business’s profit and productivity,” said Mathivanan Venkatachalam, director of product management for Desktop Central.

“The new tools in Desktop Central have saved me countless hours and days of remote troubleshooting, allowing me to help people even faster because of the remote access capabilities,” said Luke Schaedle, director of information technology at Good Will-Hinckley, a ManageEngine customer since 2013." It really has lived up to my expectations."

Highlights:

1.       Voice and video calling: Resolve issues remotely and easily by initiating a voice or video call with an end user.

2.       Remote registry: Manage the registry for remote computers from a central location.

3.       Multi-monitor troubleshooting: Troubleshoot with an extra edge by switching between multiple monitors at the same time. Adds extra visibility.

4.       Updates to Linux support: Deploy business apps to Linux computers, including the latest Debian and Ubuntu flavors.

Pricing and Availability

ManageEngine Desktop Central is available for immediate download at manageengine.com/products/desktop-central/download. Pricing starts at $645.

Digital Shadows lifts the lid on credit card fraud gangs cashing in on $24 billion a year

·         Reveals step up in sophistication with Russian language e-learning courses, allowing aspiring criminals to make $12k in monthly earnings

·         A snapshot of just two of the most popular criminal forums finds 1.2 million card holder details are on sale

Dubai, UAE, July 20, 2017 – Digital Shadows, the industry leader in digital risk management, today reveals the findings of an in-depth study carried out by its team of multilingual analysts assessing the changing habits and tactics of organized credit card fraud gangs. It points to increased sophistication of a professional ecosystem as fraudsters seek to up-skill themselves and novice would-be cyber criminals.

By analyzing hundreds of criminal forums, Digital Shadows discovered a new trend in the form of remote learning ‘schools’. Available to Russian speakers only, these six-week courses comprise 20 lectures with five expert instructors. The course includes webinars, detailed notes and course material. In exchange for RUB 45,000 ($745) (plus $200 for course fees), aspiring cyber criminals have the potential to make $12k a month, based on a standard 40-hour working week. Given the average Russian monthly wage is less than $700 a month[2] it means cybercriminals could make nearly 17x more than a ‘legitimate’ job.

Interestingly, a criminal ‘code’ appears to exist on many of the Russian-origin carding forums, whereby no Russian card details are permitted for sale.

The criminals are going after a potentially lucrative market. In just two of the most popular ‘carding’ forums nearly 1.2 million card holder details are on sale for an average of $6 each. However, prices do vary dependent on the level of security associated with the card and cardholder. The least expensive cards are those requiring further authentication to ‘cash out’. The main obstacle to this is the PIN of the cardholder, which can be tricky and time-consuming to find out. Therefore, there exist automated services which call cardholders in the Middle East in an attempt to scam their details using social engineering techniques.

Social engineering is given a heavy emphasis in the courses. Advice is given on how to manipulate people through knowledge of their local area in order to build rapport with the target and trick them into exposing information (such as PIN numbers), usually over the phone. As the instructor puts it “that’s why I always advise to watch the news because with such incidents, it is possible to play beautifully.”

“The card companies have developed sophisticated anti-fraud measures and high quality training like this can be seen as a reaction to this”, said Rick Holland, VP Strategy at Digital Shadows. “Unfortunately, it’s a sign that criminals continually seek to lower barriers to entry, which then put more criminals into the ecosystem and cost card brands, retailers and consumers. However, the benefit is that the criminals are increasingly exposing their methods, which means that credit card companies, merchants and customers can learn from them and adjust their defenses accordingly.”

The research found that credit card criminals fall into four main groups (with some overlapping between each)

·         Payment Card Data Harvesters - do the ‘dirty work’ in terms of harvesting the payment card information. This is done through intercepting card holder’s information whether this be through point of sale malware, skimming devices, phishing, breached databases, or through operating botnets

·         Distributors – are the ‘middle men’ who typically make the most money. While the criminals who harvest may use the card data themselves, they also sell it on to others who will package, repackage and sell on the card information

·         Fraudsters - run the most risk in terms of getting caught by law enforcement or being conned by fellow criminals. Once fraudsters have acquired payment card information from their distributor, the fraud can happen. These individuals tend to be less technical and attract a lower calibre of cybercriminal, often relying on online guides and courses to learn the latest techniques

·         Monetization - There are many different roles within the stage, including those who have been duped into operating drop addresses and those involved in the reselling of fraudulently acquired goods.

Rick Holland, VP Strategy at Digital Shadows continues: “This ecosystem is highly complex and international. At each stage, it creates victims – from the card industry that loses $24 billion a year to consumers who are frequently duped into revealing their card details. One of the key themes that stood out for us is the level of ‘social engineering’ criminals are now using. Aggressive and manipulative phone calls to victims to reveal PIN numbers is just one example of this.”

Digital Shadows offers the following five tips for consumers:

1.       Don’t be part of a cashing out scam. Be wary of job postings offering well-paid jobs to re-ship goods, often offering to work from home. Fraudsters go to great lengths to make these companies look legitimate.

2.       Protect your PIN. Never share your PIN over email of phone, no matter who says they are calling.

3.       Be picky about who you shop with. If shopping somewhere new, ensure the shop uses 3D Secure.

4.       Take care when booking travel and hotels. Offers that appear too good to be true often are. Act with caution if using a travel agent you have not previously used; this is a common scam for fraudsters.

5.       Check your statements carefully. Check your bank statements carefully for irregular purchases - even those that appear in a nearby location and for small amounts. Alert the bank if you suspect fraudulent activity.

Digital Shadows offers the following five tips for merchants:

1.       Learn about latest techniques. Criminals will do what they can to avoid friction. If certain banks have better anti-fraud measures, the instructors recommend avoiding them. Understand what makes carding difficult. 3D secure, for example is an additional layer of security deployed by Visa and Mastercard, is proven to be a real obstacle for criminals.

2.       Make security as important as user experience. There must always be a balance between security and user experience, but online merchants should be aware that criminals are turning to mobile apps to commit payment card fraud as it provides them with less obstacles.

3.       Monitor for mentions of cardable sites. Criminals share lists of cardable sites; if your company name crops up, it’s a good indication that you are experiencing fraud. Companies can search with the help of Google Alerts or open source web crawlers like Scrapy to look for mentions of their brands. 

4.       Train your staff and your customers. Remember that the most advanced methods all involved social engineering.

5.       Don’t be part of the problem. Cashing out is only one small part of the fraud; the harvesting of credit card information is required first. Protect your customers’ credit card information by storing the information securely and ensuring payment software is patched.

Digital Shadows offers the following five tips for card providers:

1.       Detect phishing with DNS Twist. Proactively monitor for permutations on your domain name, which could help you to detect any criminal seeking to harvest information from your customers.

2.       Understand threats against your customers. Monitor the activity of banking trojans, such as Trickbot, to identify patterns in their targeting and techniques used to gain access to your customers’ computers.

3.       Monitor for AVC shops for BINs and IINs. Monitor for Bank Identification Numbers (BINs) and Issuer Identification Numbers (IINs) that are offered for sale. In many cases, it is possible to free text search and filter by BIN numbers.

4.       Monitor IRC checking channels. Monitor IRC checking channels for BINs and IINs that are indicative of a criminal testing an individuals’ card.

5.       Benchmark yourself against peers. Understand which card providers fraudsters recommend not using, and use this to understand where your company stacks up.

You can learn more about Digital Shadows’ deep and dark web intelligence in this datasheet.

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[1] https://www.javelinstrategy.com/press-release/point-sale-card-fraud-predicted-decrease-card-not-present-and-new-account-fraud

[2] https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/wages