{"id":757,"date":"2017-03-30T03:44:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T03:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.duconind.com\/blog\/?p=757"},"modified":"2017-03-30T03:44:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T03:44:22","slug":"the-national-newspapers-report-on-ducon-ind-fzco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duconind.com\/blog\/the-national-newspapers-report-on-ducon-ind-fzco\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Newspaper\u2019s Report on DUCON Ind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The vision\u00a0of the Future in UAE Construction.\u00a0<\/strong>Dubai-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duconind.com\/\">DUCON Industries\u2019<\/a> Mohammed Al <strong>Farhan<\/strong> may have lost his ability to haggle during his extended stint in the <strong>U<\/strong>nited <strong>K<\/strong>ingdom, but he took a lot away from his experience of living in the country. And for someone whose doctorate was in block factory management, this inevitably brought him into contact with <strong>B<\/strong>ritish builders\u2019 merchants \u2013 distributors of common lines of building materials including <strong>blocks<\/strong>, <strong>paving<\/strong>, <strong>sand<\/strong> and <strong>cement<\/strong>, sold either directly to building companies or to individual tradesmen.\u00a0<span id=\"more-715\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"hs-text-container\">Although there clearly are already successful builders\u2019 merchants in the region (Rizwan Sajan\u2019s Danube Group being among the most high-profile examples), Mr. Al <strong>Farhan<\/strong> thinks there is room for more, with many contractors still dealing directly with individual manufacturers. &#8220;I think builders\u2019 merchants are something that has to come into this market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cMany of the things we learned in the UK, we come back here and we don\u2019t find it. So we say, \u2018OK, the market is moving in this direction.\u2019 It\u2019s like looking into the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vision\u00a0of the Future in UAE Construction.\u00a0Dubai-based DUCON Industries\u2019 Mohammed Al Farhan may have lost his ability to haggle during his extended stint in the United Kingdom, but he took a lot away from his experience of living in the country. And for someone whose doctorate was in block factory management, this inevitably brought him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[106,110,144],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ducon","tag-news","tag-the-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duconind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duconind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duconind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duconind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duconind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duconind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duconind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duconind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duconind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duconind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}