Mars is a major family-owned company that produces confectionery, food products, chewing gum, and pet food. Founded in 1911, Mars has become one of the leading players in its industry, thanks to in...
The outsourcing market of accounting functions in Kazakhstan has enormous growth potential. According to the different estimates, nowadays only approximately 10% of companies in the country use out...
Understanding the Pulse of Consumer Behavior
Work-life balance has gained significant workplace prominence as the boundaries between professional and personal lives continue to blur.
First ever set of global reporting standards for ESG investors
A momentous event unfolded for Almaty’s medical services – the opening of a new medical centre, Mediker Hospital International, setting a new standard in the quality of ultramodern medical services.
As a private clinic, iO recognizes the importance of continuous education in improving the quality of healthcare services by investing in annul training abroad for staff physicians.
Following several announcements in public media,1 it has been reported that Kazakhstan will monitor goods that are imported into the country for re-export, tracking them until they reach their fina...
At present, many companies in Kazakhstan are reluctant to use cloud services. Most of them attribute this to the limitations imposed on the use of personal data and the ambiguity of the current leg...
Foreign investors, whether large multinational companies or smaller size regional investors, corporate or private investors, often consider in which country to invest and/ or establish its initial ...
HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT The contemporary history of Islamic finance around the world can be divided into three stages: a founding period during the 1960s, a formative period from the establishmento...
Welcome Dr Styles. Welcome to World Monitor magazine, which is an official partner for European Business Association of Kazakhstan. Thank you for asking me to do this interview. It’s a great pleasu...
The EUROBAK Talk online event, which has already become traditional and regular, pleased with an excellent opportunity to communicate and ask all your questions to His Excellency Ambassador of the ...
Air Astana, Central Asia’s leading carrier, is marking the 19th anniversary of its first commercial flight. Throughout these first 19 years, Air Astana has innovatively adapted to numerous challeng...
Today with us we have Eric Meyer U.S. Consul General in Almaty Kazakhstan. This is a great honor and a pleasure Eric to have you with us today and I’d like to thank you on behalf of the European Bu...
Haileybury Almaty and Haileybury Astana are British curriculum private schools in Almaty and Nur-Sultan, where education is built in the best traditions of British education. In the senior school i...
The strategic approach of Philip Morris Kazakhstan (PMK) towards social projects is based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals and is aimed at supporting projects that help to improve the qualit...
Today most pet shelters need consistent support. The noble idea of helping pets already exists, but good intentions without competent support and funding will not create the right conditions for th...
According to some data from the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, about five million Kazakhstanis belong to socially vulnerable groups of the population, many facing the p...
It’s been 120 years that Gedeon Richter, a pharmaceutical company founded in Hungary, has been contributing to women’s health. The company has gained significant information to share on the topic t...
Action Literally is the Inclusive Theatre Laboratory where professional stage actors and directors, artists, musicians, non-professional actors, and special needs artists work together. There are t...
On 18 July 2020, SOCIALHACK – an online youth hackathon aimed at developing a mobile app for people with special needs – wrapped up in Nur-Sultan. Applications were accepted starting 30 June, and m...
The coronavirus epidemic has become a hardship for the human race. For the first time in the last hundred years, people all over the world have become aware of the genuine threat to both their heal...
On 2 May 2020, one of the Sardobinsky dams broke through reservoirs in western Uzbekistan. As a result of the breakthrough, severe flooding impacted several villages in Kazakhstan’s Turkestan regio...
A new type of coronavirus, which is raging in the world and here in Kazakhstan, has overshadowed a number of other diseases, although patients suffering from various ailments still need help and su...
For five years SKYMAX TECHNOLOGIES worked on a project, creating a network of storm direction sensors in Kazakhstan. In 2019, we successfully set up a system for monitoring lightning activity here,...
Beeline Kazakhstan has set for itself a goal of transforming the culture of how company employees interact by creating continuous feedback through an ecosystem of user experience, measurement of in...
80% of all the Internet traffic in Kazakhstan is video streaming. 68% of the audience are Kazakh-speaking users. The year 2020 showed how much Kazakhs need licensed content, especially in Kazakh. A...
Growth is returning to the mining sector, but companies face a transformed competitive and operating landscape. The need to improve shareholder returns will drive bold strategies to accelerate prod...
Askar, on the SEC Almaty website and in the media there is much discussion about comprehensive support of local and foreign entrepreneurs. However, oddly enough, the number of people informed about...
With Islamic banking’s active development in Kazakhstan as well as all over the world, Islamic banking products are becoming more and more popular and interesting. Today we will elaborate more on a...
Mr. Wuttke, please share your views on what signing the RCEP agreement means for the global community. Signing the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, and also the Compreh...
Prof. Christopher A. Hartwell, first of all we would like to congratulate you with a new position. Would you be so kind as to tell us about your tasks and duties, do you have a specific plan and st...
Historically, Sales Representatives were collecting sales data manually from every trade outlet. Sales data includes product representation, adherence to planogram standards and multiple internal K...
As part of Unilever’s Sustainable Living Plan, Domestos has committed to helping 50 million people gain access to a safe & clean toilet by 2030. Domestos conducts different projects in differen...
300 people trained, 82 people employed, 61 people became sole proprietors. Since 2010, Philip Morris Kazakhstan LLP together with the Institution Polytechnic College, Progress has implemented a pro...
The number of companies in Kazakhstan with foreign participation has grown 12% this year alone to 21.7 thousand by the start of autumn. Of these, 97.3%, or 21.1 thousand are small businesses; 1.5% ...
LegalTech has truly found its niche in Europe and America, where a number of tools have been in use for roughly 20 years already, and in the last few years has begun to develop actively in the CIS....
The first quarter of 2020 was not easy for businesses in any country in the world because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Companies faced the question of how to maintain business and consumer demand in q...
‘Industrialization 4.0’ is one of the main trends in the transformation of participants in the global economy, which means a departure from traditional industrial production to optimizing the compa...
Over the years of Independence, the inflow of foreign direct investment into the economy of Kazakhstan amounted to about $350 billion. In 2019, Kazakhstan managed to maintain the gross inflow of fo...
Beneficiaries of the Project: 800 businesswomen, representatives of business support organizations and financial institutions, business development experts of 13 regions of Kazakhstan, plus 3500 on...
The Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, the main document framing relations between the EU and Kazakhstan, enters into force on 1 March 2020. It provides a reinforced and updated legal ...
Since January 1, 2020, a new financial regulator has been operating in Kazakhstan, which is directly subordinate and accountable to the Head of State, the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for R...
In light of the recent discussions at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where topics such as climate change, corporate social responsibility and corporate governance dominated, how ca...
