Financial Centre Development Company, the owner of Harbour Towers and Harbour Gate properties within the Bahrain Financial Harbour masterplan, is the latest organisation to join the rapidly growing Arabian Business Community (ABC) Bahrain portal securing ‘top of mind’ premium positions on the site.

Chief executive Angus Campbell said, “Financial Centre Development Company has a wide range of offices available on competitive terms to meet the needs of most businesses.

Mr Campbell is an experienced real estate asset and investment manager, with both regional and international experience.

“We shall seek to continue to improve the service levels to our existing tenants provided by EFS Facilities Services Bahrain, our facilities manager, and to attract new high-quality business occupiers looking for Grade A offices. ABC, in my opinion, represents the most innovative and exciting digital platform available generating quantifiable business referrals directly to our profile page on the portal every day.

“By joining ABC Bahrain, we are looking forward not only to sales referrals but also to the pro-active and ongoing marketing support from a well-established and innovative media partner which will help us promote our group in Bahrain and across the GCC.”

ABC commercial manager Kamal Al Yousif said, “We are delighted that Financial Centre Development Company has joined the ABC community by taking such prominent premium partners positions on the portal. Harbour Towers within the Bahrain Financial Harbour masterplan is currently one of the most prestigious business addresses in the kingdom and ABC is already generating a significant number of business referrals from individuals who are interested in either property or facilities management businesses.”

Ronnie Middleton, managing director of Al Hilal Group, the owner of the ABC portal, said: “ABC will ensure that Financial Centre Development Company’s Harbour Towers and Harbour Gate properties and its associated companies maintain ‘top of mind’ positions on a marketing database which allows literally hundreds of thousands of individuals to search for and connect with companies in their specific lines of business.”

“As a result, Financial Centre Development Company can have the confidence that business referrals to their profile or ‘showroom’ on ABC will be from people who are not only interested in the commercial real estate and in Bahrain but are specifically interested in Financial Centre Development Company’s and its associated companies’ various business activities,” Mr Middleton added.

ABC has grown rapidly over the past six years and now generates close to 150,000 business referrals or visits each month to over 10,000 companies on its Bahrain database.

The portal allows companies to add or edit information in any of over 170 business and trade categories across the consumer, commercial, construction, industrial and oil and gas sectors of the economy.

The Bahrain edition, which was established more than six years ago, is linked to a further 14 editions across the GCC and internationally providing a database of over 300,000 companies with an involvement in the region and generating almost six million visits to individual companies each year.

The portal offers the most up-to-date marketing database in Bahrain supported by business news, project and tender information and promotional platforms for community members.