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Article: Burger Fuel closing in on Dubai site for start of its Middle East venture .
- Article from:
- New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand)
- Article date:
- April 13, 2009
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Burger Fuel hopes to nail down a site for an outlet in Dubai within the next six weeks, a year after announcing it had signed a deal in the emirate.
The NZAX-listed company recently signed its second international master licensing agreement in the Middle East with partners in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
Burger Fuel executive director Josef Roberts said it was hoped to have more than 20 outlets operating in the region in the next few years.
It had planned to have its Dubai store open by the end of last year but the city state, with its reliance on property development, tourism and financial services, had been hit hard by the global economic crunch. ...