BTM December 2011 145 Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts has now received Green Globe certification for 20 Middle Eastern properties, meaning that the international hotel group has become the leading hospitality company in the region in terms of measuring and monitoring its environmental and social performance. Seen here are, Heinz Krähenbühl, general manager Mövenpick Bahrain & Balaji Narayan with the certificate Mindshare MENA recently hosted their 2nd annual Mindshare Media Summit 2011 in Dubai in the presence of a number of prominent speakers. The theme for the summit was “Inspiring ideas for connected consumers “ Seen far left, Samir Ayoub, CEO of Mindshare MENA region welcomes delegates to the summit, and on the left, delegates on a break As part of its ongoing Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives, national carrier Gulf Air joined hands with the ‘Think Pink Bahrain’ movement for the third consecutive year, to raise breast cancer awareness in the Kingdom. A sponsorship agreement to support this cause was signed at the airline’s headquarters in Muharraq by Gulf Air Deputy Chief Executive Officer Maher Al Musallam and Think Pink Chairwoman Jules Sprakel. Through the sponsorship, Gulf Air will support the Think Pink Bahrain team to travel across the carrier’s network and do research that would help bring an end to this deadly disease affecting millions of people around the world. Gulf Air also participated in a number of the campaign’s events, such as the Think Pink Gala held last month Ford Middle East and Almoayyed Motors, the Ford and Lincoln dealer in Bahrain, presented the latest 2012 line-up from both brands to a host of key fleet customers at a special preview meeting in the Kingdom. Ford and Almoayyed Motors also honoured Speedy Motors, Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo & Budget Rent-A-Car during this event for their long term association with the brand. Seen here Faisal Kanoo & Benty Jose being honoured by Mohammed Almoayyed, Declan McClusky & Venkatesh Goud GOPIO (Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin), the world’s largest Indian Diaspora has elected Sunny Kulathakal from Bahrain as its Executive Vice President for next two years. It is for the first time in the history of GOPIO that an NRI from Middle East has been elected tothis post. Indian Ambassador in America HE Nirupama Rao was the chief guest of the Biennial Convention of GOPIO last Saturday at the Renaissance Hotel, New Jersey, USA Seen here are, GOPIO Chairman Inder Singh, Sunny Kulathakal, Senior Vice President Dr. Piyush Agrawal & President Ashok Ramsaran at the oath taking ceremony
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