The Tejar Dubai entrepreneurship development programme, a Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry initiative, launched its 20th business project, Familia Emirati clothes store on Dubai-Oman Highway in Hatta recently.

The brand-new industrial project which is the 4th launched by Tejar Dubai in 2012 has actually come as part of the entrepreneurship advancement programme's efforts to support creative and commercially-minded Emirati business owners turn their business ideas into truth.

Present at the launch were Essa Al Zaabi, Senior Vice-President, Institutional Support Sector, and General Coordinator of Tejar Dubai, Saif Al Shafar, Chairman of Tejar Dubai Youth Council, Ali Al Bidwawi, owner of Familia, in addition to a number of popular entrepreneurs and participants of the entrepreneurship development program.

The Familia is the eighth shop attached to the Alwars and Alfosol Trading Company group which specialises in ready-to-wear and evening garments for the entire family and includes shoes, bags, linens, fragrances, accessories, toys and baby cribs, stationery and items for infants.

Commenting on the opening of the Familia shop, Essa Al Zaabi stated that this is the fourth task of the year released by Tejar Dubai which plainly reveals the entrepreneurship advancement program's commitment to support young Emirati talent to overcome the difficulties in establishing a business while helping them making a success of their enterprise in the competitive world of business.

Al Zaabi even more stressed that the Tejar Dubai initiative offers youth with access to a comprehensive advancement program, consisting of training and suggestions from professionals in the field which help them establish business concepts and to be creative and innovative in business arena. He wished the owner of the new project all the success.

On his part, Ali Al Bidwawi, the owner of the business project, notified that the store offers a wide range of clothes and accessories for the whole family under one roof thus saving the time and efforts of the shoppers mainly Emirati and Gulf nationals who regular the Dubai-Oman Highway in Hatta.

Al Bidwawi, who is now sourcing brand-new and high quality products for this new outlet, plans to open branches in chosen places in the UAE and Oman and is ambitious of eventually broadening into the Gulf market and establishing his brand name in the region.

Lauding the role of Tejar Dubai in establishing his company, Al Bidwawi stated that the entrepreneurship development programme helped him understand his dream through constant assistance and advice and the workshops that increased his self-confidence and readied him to face business world. He thanked Tejar Dubai and everybody working behind the scenes making a success of the initiative.

The Tejar Dubai initiative, released by Dubai Chamber, provides youth with access to a substantial development program, consisting of classroom learning, on-site training, mentoring and company recommendations, in addition to networking chances with regional and global magnate and access to investment capital while helping them establish their own small-to-medium-sized businesses.

With its dedication to the directives of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice-President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, which stresses that entrepreneurship is the shortest route to a bright future, the training programme intends to discover and train imaginative and commercially-minded youth to help them turn their business ideas into a truth.