Jeff Daniels looks at some of the innovative new ideas that a UAE airline is using to fuel rapid growth in business.

What do you do if you are an Arab prince whose most precious possession is a priceless racehorse scheduled to run in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp? On the other hand, what if you are the logistics manager for Save the Children and you need to airlift vital supplies to somewhere in Africa? In either case, it’s a good chance that you’ll both be on the phone to the same people.

Development in Kenya is experiencing something of a bottleneck; but as Jeff Daniels learns, action to free up matters is now well in hand.

Uranium mining plays a significant role in the nuclear energy chain—and in Namibia, the Trekkopje uranium mine and desalination plant represent the largest direct foreign investment ever made in Namibia.

Managing director Paul Craig talks to Vincent Kielty about how a local Ghanaian company has forged a reputation for excellence in a challenging marketplace.

Sara Lee Corp has agreed to sell its North American dough business to Ralcorp Holdings for around $545 million.

The business had net sales of more than $300 million in the year ended July 2010.

Ralcorp’s CEO said the deal will enable the company to be a private leader in the $1.8 billion refrigerated dough category.

The business, which employs 700 people mainly in Texas and Georgia, will operate as part of the Ralcorp Frozen Bakery Products division after the close of the transaction.

Premium Transmission Ltd, part of the Karan Thapar Group, has divested its automotive gear manufacturing division to Indsur Global Limited.

Indsur Global manufactures insulator castings for the automobile sector at its plant in Halol, India. The acquisition will provide Indsur Group with access to key customers and a strong platform for expansion.

Premium Transmission is a leading manufacturer of industrial gearboxes in India. The automotive gear manufacturing division in Aurangabad serves mainly three wheeler manufacturers in the country.

With few safe havens left for investors, the price of an ounce of gold has broken $1,700 for the first time ever this week, and some analysts believe it could reach $2,500 an ounce by the end of this year.

When investors are nervous of currencies, treasury bonds and just about everything else, their last resort seems always to be gold. Despite the efforts of Barrick Gold, Newmont Mining and Goldcorp, however, supply can never keep up with this kind of demand, so these price predictions could well prove to be true.

Canary Wharf Group is to construct a new office building of over 500,000 square feet at Canary Wharf in London.     

Work on the substructure at 25 Churchill Place has already been completed, with construction of the 20-storey tower due to begin in the fourth quarter of this year.

Canary Wharf Group has called the building of the tower “a symbolic milestone”, as it completes the development of the original Canary Wharf masterplan.

Boeing and Siemens are to form a strategic alliance for the joint development and marketing of "smart grid" technologies to improve energy access and security for the US Department of Defense.

The alliance's microgrid management solution will be designed to implement economical energy-efficiency tools that allow for analysis, control and automation of energy processes; use smart energy controls to provide real-time data to manage energy use; and integrate renewable energy sources and storage.