The Tanmiah Innovation Center at the headquarters in Riyadh unites the entire innovation cycle in one facility, accelerating the path from concept to market with faster feedback, seamless iteration, and greater cost efficiency. It enhances capabilities to experiment with new ideas and locally sourced ingredients, developing healthier products tailored to evolving consumer preferences. The center supports the Kingdom’s vision of a sustainable, self-sufficient food sector, raising quality standards and advancing local food security.

Accely, a global SAP Gold Partner and enterprise transformation company, has appointed Murali Kurra as Chief Revenue Officer for the Middle East. He will lead sales across the region and own Accely’s revenue strategy, covering existing account growth, renewals and new market entry. Murali has spent more than twenty years in enterprise applications and the SAP ecosystem, in senior sales and leadership roles at IBM, DXC Technology, Fujitsu, Bristlecone, Zensar Technologies and Edraky.

Set to become a distinctive addition to the Kingdom’s leisure, wellness and tourism portfolio, Club Hawaii @ Bahrain Surf Park will introduce an immersive experience built around world-class surfing, family leisure, dining, retail, events and social spaces. The project will bring the MENA region’s best in class surf park powered by Wavegarden Cove technology to the Kingdom, while contributing to the wider transformation of Bilaj Al Jazayer as one of Bahrain’s most dynamic coastal destinations.

Ayan Capital, which offers halal car finance, has secured a senior Shariah-compliant facility of up to £75 million ($100 million), originated by investment manager Triple Point. The facility will fund Ayan’s next phase of growth as it prepares its UK banking licence application. Since launching in early 2024, more than 150,000 people have started an application with Ayan. The company holds a 4.9 Trustpilot rating, sees more than 60% of website visitors begin an application, and maintains a loss rate below the industry average. Two-thirds of its team are engineers, with technology built in-house.

JAC Motors unveiled four electrified models at IAA Transportation 2026, under the theme “For Greener Cities, NOW!”. Displayed at Hall 12, Stand C08, the line-up includes the SUNRAY PRO electric van, N90 EV and N42 EV electric light-duty trucks, and T9 PHEV plug-in hybrid pickup. The range supports urban distribution, intercity freight and specialist uses.

Beehive, the region’s first digital peer-to-peer SME financing platform, has partnered with Taageer Finance Co. SAOG, one of Oman’s leading finance companies, to sign an agreement to expand access to financing for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the Sultanate. To date, Beehive Oman has supported financing for more than 270 SMEs across Oman, and since its inception, Taageer Finance has financed more than 22,000 SME customers across 15 key economic sectors. The collaboration brings together Beehive’s digital financing capabilities and SME-focused platform with Taageer Finance’s extensive experience, established market presence and track record in supporting businesses across Oman. Through the partnership, at least OMR 36 million in financing will be made available to eligible SMEs across Oman, supporting businesses with a minimum of two years of trading history.

Billions of dollars in energy agreements are moving from discussion to delivery at Gastech 2026. By the end of day three, memoranda of understanding, supply agreements and investment commitments with a combined estimated value of $40 billion USD were announced or advanced in Bangkok, cementing Gastech’s essential role as the global meeting place where the energy industry does business.

“The MP-14 Origin by Jeff Koons is a horological interpretation of creation itself: the moment where energy becomes form and form becomes time. It is more than measuring time, it’s about returning to its source. Motion is generative. A central tourbillon becomes the first pulse and everything else unfolds around it like a controlled expansion. It’s the idea of a Big Bang translated through engineered motion, material tension, and the physics of light,” said Jeff Koons on the collaboration.

Hublot and Jeff Koons, two visionary forces renowned for transforming the ordinary, unveil a revolutionary collaboration that seamlessly merges watchmaking art with contemporary art; objects, time and symbols – transforming them into cultural icons. Available in three editions – mirror-polished stainless steel, red or blue anodized aluminum – the Classic Fusion Balloon Dog by Jeff Koons turns form into presence and time into something tangible. The Classic Fusion Balloon Dog, inspired by Koons’s iconic mirrored balloon sculptures, translates the emotional language of inflatables into a radical object of horology.

The ReThink Group, the hedge fund performance and talent consultancy founded by Denise Shull, announced its expansion into Dubai and Athens. Leading the expansion are Dubai-based Dr. Sarah Savage and Athens-based Constantine “CT” Theodossiou. Larry McGonegal also joins, working out of Greenwich, Connecticut.

Rosewood Hong Kong (No.1) has once again been named The World’s Best Hotel 2026. The list celebrates hotels from 22 destinations across six continents, with Europe leading the way with 21 winning hotels. Chablé Yucatán (No.9) in Mexico wins the Bombay Sapphire Eco Hotel Award, audited by the Sustainable Restaurant Association. In its second year, the Johnnie Walker Art of Design Award is presented to Hôtel du Couvent (No.38) in Nice, France. James McBride, founder of Nihi Hotels, is celebrated with the SevenRooms Icon Award. The Best Boutique Hotel Award is awarded to Passalacqua (No.5) in Lake Como, for a third year. Patina Osaka in Japan (No.33) wins the Nikka Best New Hotel Award. Other accolades include Ferrari Trento Most Admired Hotel Group Award, awarded to Rosewood; WhistlePig Highest Climber Award goes to Las Ventanas al Paraíso (No.25) in Los Cabos, Mexico; Casa Maria Luigia (No.18) in Modena, Italy wins the Lavazza Highest New Entry Award; and the Best Beach Hotel Award goes to Atlantis The Royal (No.4) in Dubai. The Fifth Avenue Hotel (No.78) in New York City received the American Express Travel One to Watch Award and Switzerland’s Badrutt’s Palace (No.36)

TestMu AI launched Kane CLI in April 2026 as a terminal-native browser automation tool built for both human developers and AI coding agents, including Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, and Gemini CLI. Operating on plain-language intent rather than selectors, Kane CLI lets teams describe a flow and get a pass-or-fail verdict with a full step trace and screenshot, export flows to native Playwright code, and run headlessly in CI pipelines. Since launch, it has added AI-powered test case generation through kane-cli generate, which turns a one-line description into scenarios and test cases. The Assurance Lifecycle is the next step: tests that are derived from the actual requirement documents, not just from a prompt.

ARTPRICE NEWS: THE 18TH LYON BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART IS NOW OPEN Passer d’un rêve à l’autre — Passing from One Dream to Another19 September – 13 December 202611 venues • 120 artists • nearly 400 worksPARIS, Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — From Saturday 19 September, the 18th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art opens its doors to the public. Until 13 December 2026, Passer d’un rêve à l’autre (Passing from One Dream to Another) invites everyone to experience a generous Biennale unfolding across 11 venues in Lyon and its metropolitan area, bringing together 120 artists and nearly 400 works. Curated by Catherine Nichols, the 18th edition takes visitors on a journey through the city and its wider territory, encompassing major exhibition sites, museums, heritage venues and unexpected spaces.

“Emaar is delighted to support the 2026 edition of Dubai Premier Padel P1 as title partner,” said Ahmad Al Matrooshi Executive Director, Emaar Properties. “The partnership reflects our commitment to creating distinctive experiences for residents and visitors and adds to Dubai’s diverse lifestyle and leisure offering. We look forward to supporting an exciting week of sport and entertainment and welcoming fans to the tournament.”

Seclore will be at Booth H10 D175, where the team will showcase how enterprises can discover sensitive data, understand risk, apply persistent protection and maintain control wherever that data moves.

Gorenje, one of Europe’s leading home appliance brands operating under Hisense Group, has unveiled its latest innovation for the region: the G600 dishwasher, a state-of-the-art, energy-efficient appliance designed to simplify daily routines and elevate everyday cleaning for every modern household. With an energy-efficient dishwasher engineered for every lifestyle, Gorenje continues to simplify everyday living across the UAE and wider Middle East.

The press conference offered an exclusive glimpse of Cosmoprof Asia’s global “WANTED” campaign, the 2026 event theme, programme, partnerships, speaker line-up and initiatives.

Located in ADGM, the international financial center in Abu Dhabi, the new office will enhance S&C’s ability to serve clients in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and across the region with its integrated offering, which combines financing, regulatory, and transactional expertise with deep experience working on complex, cross-border, and large-scale mandates. Ahmed T. el-Gaili will rejoin the firm as a partner to lead the firm’s Middle East practice.

ABU DHABI, UAE, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Miral, Abu Dhabi’s leading creator of immersive destinations and experiences, will be investing more than AED 12 billion across Yas Island over the next five years. The substantial investment will support a pipeline of new developments alongside expansions and enhancements to existing attractions, reinforcing Miral’s commitment to Abu Dhabi’s Tourism Strategy 2030 and further strengthening Yas Island’s position as a leading global destination for leisure and entertainment.

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