Sisi Urges Local Investors to Pump New Mega Projects – Oriental Weavers’ CEO

By Salma Ayman On Jul 10, 2014

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met on Wednesday with the country’s prominent tycoons, seeking their cooperation to combat the country’s unemployment crisis.

In this respect, Egyptian tycoon and founder of leading carpet makers Oriental Weavers Company Mohamed Farid Khamis stated that Sisi called the businessmen to pump new investments in the country to boost the national economy.

Khamis added that the Egyptian president did not ask them providing new donations in favour of Long Live Egypt’s Fund in the meeting of Wednesday.

The president instead demanded the delegation to give more concrete contributions to the national economy by pumping more investments and establishing huge projects to provide job opportunities and solve unemployment crisis, Khamis spoke to Amwal Al Ghad.

On late Wednesday, a number of high-profile businessmen totaling 15 have attended the meeting with the Egyptian president, including Naguib Sawiris, Mohammed Al-Amin, Ahmed Abu Hashima, and Mohamed Farid Khamis, and Juhayna Food Industries’ CEO Safwan Thabet, Mohammed Abou El-Enein, along with a group of other big names in Egypt.