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Getting what he wants

XQ9J0015Naif Khoury turned 24 on December 2. The Procurement Administrator has been working for Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC), an international construction business, for only six months and can already say he’s cutting big deals.

Naif Khoury, Procurement Administrator Consolidated Contractors

“We bring our suppliers to the floor in terms of pricing,” he says proudly. “We break their backs.

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Running to recruit

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Nigel Moore, Managing Director Logistics Recruitment

Everything about Nigel Moore is fast. He darts around his office so quickly that if you blink he’ll disappear. His words and hand gestures are on fast forward. And, not surprisingly, he loves to run.

Moore runs in the desert every Sunday evening with the Dubai chapter of the Hash House Harriers, an international running (and social) club. “I’ve been running with the Harriers since 1979,” says the Managing Director of Logistics Recruitment, “and I never miss unless I have to.”

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Mr. Nice

Michael Stockdale loves fast cars and rides a Harley. But he says he is one of the good guys.

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Michael Stockdale, General manager, Al Futtaim Logistics

In his spare, almost Spartan, Al-Futtaim Logistics office in the Jebel Ali Free Zone, Michael Stockdale comes across as a regular bloke from Sydney – the type who says “G’day, mate!” to strangers.

“Around here, I’m just one of the good guys,” he qualifies. “Al Futtaim Logistics has the best people in the logistics industry – not just here in the region but possibly in the world.”

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