Starting Your Business

Starting and running your business may seem a difficult task at first, but if you follow our 3-step process, you can easily determine what to do.

First decide what your company will be doing.  Will your company;

  • Buy and Sell Goods?
  • Provide Services? or
  • Manufacture or Assemble Goods?

Then you have to decide how the company will be owned.  For example;

  • Will it be just one owner?
  • More than one owner?
  • Will your company be owned by another company?
  • Will your company be owned by one or more persons AND one or more companies?

 

Fortunum can incorporate a company for you very quickly.  Incorporating a company to buy and sell goods is quite often the simplest and quickest incorporation we undertake.  With Dubai becoming the trading hub of choice to the world, your business is guaranteed to become successful with our careful guidance and insight.

There are three options that we can present to you;

  1. A Commercial License which is structured as a Limited Liability Company
  2. A Commercial License incorporated within one of the numerous Free Zones in the U.A.E.
  3. A Commercial License incorported as a Branch of a Foreign Company

How do we decide which option to pick?  Our task is not an easy one.  We have to carefully consider many things before we pick the right option.  We will have to ask you many questions regarding your intended business in order to determine the correct option that will work for you now and also well into the future.  In order to start the process to determine your best option, kindly click here.

Providing Services is one of the fastest growing business sectors in the Middle East.  As the oil-rich Gulf countries look to depend less on oil in order to provide employment to a booming local population, the services sector is becoming one of the fastest growing industries in the region.  Dubai is strategically situated to provide services to the Middle East and North African (MENA) Region, the former Soviet Republics, Afghanistan, Iraq and to the Near and Far-Eastern Economies that are growing by the day.

Fortunum can incorporate a Services company for you through any of the following options;

  1. A Professional License as a Sole Establishment (One Owner - just yourself)
  2. A Professional License as a Civil Company - (more than One Owner)
  3. A Professional License as a Branch of a Foreign Company
  4. A Professional License incorporated within a Free Zone.

Why not complete our free online questionnaire or chat with one of our Expert Consultants to see which option suits you best?  To start an online chat or send us a free inquiry click here.

Many manufacturing companies are seeking to reduce overheads by tapping into a cheap labour market and by locating their manufacturing facilities near their customers.  Dubai is unique in that labour is very cheap.  Your clients are also going to be geographically close as Dubai has the best transportation, storage and logistics infrastructure in the world.  Jebel Ali Free Zone Port is one of the biggest in the world, Dubai World Central Airport has an unprecedented 6 runways - a whole city built around an Airport!  Great road networks, Shipping Services and Air Cargo Networks place your clients right next door to your manufacturing operations.  The savings in cost for manufacturing companies can be enormous when situated in the U.A.E.

Fortunum can help you navigate the complex legal and administrative process involved in setting up your Manufacturing company.  We can help you with the Environmental Impact Assesment , Municipality Approval, Dubai Civil Defence Approval and many other pre-approvals required to start manufacturing.

The incorporation options open to you are;

  1. A Commercial License which is structured as a Limited Liability Company
  2. A Commercial License incorporated within one of the numerous Free Zones in the U.A.E.
  3. A Commercial License incorported as a Branch of a Foreign Company

In order to send us an inquiry on how we can help you with your incorporation,click here.