Stunning new kitchen architecture from the worlds leading kitchen brand

Dubai, 15 October  2006 - In line with their ethos of delivering a superior product, the Ilyas & Mustafa Galadari Group, developers of the 'City of Arabia' have commissioned renowned kitchen designers, Poggenpohl, to fit the kitchens in their up market Wadi Walk apartments. The award winning Poggenpohl designs will assure investors that they are getting the best quality kitchens on the market.

"Wadi Walk is a unique development with a stylish ambiance that harmonises perfectly with our designer kitchens." commented Mr. Junker Manfred, Poggenpohl GmbH.  "Anyone who enjoys this combination of quality and exclusivity will also appreciate the symbyosis between traditional manufacturing skills and high-tech production that characterizes Poggenpohl."

Poggenpohl will be introducing their latest achievements in kitchen manufacturing to create a stylish living environment for the residents of Wadi Walk. Their latest releases include, PLUSMODO, a modern and flexible design created in conjunction with renowned Spanish designer Jorge Pensi, that is characterized by its unique presentation of open and closed functional areas and has also won four awards including the iF Product Design Award 2006 (iF International Forum Design GmbH Hanover).

Mustafa Galadari, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, added, "Poggenpohl is the world's best known kitchen brand, their award winning designs will help emphasise the fact that our Wadi Walk will offer only the best in all areas."

Meandering among the high-rise towers the 10-km Wadi Walk is a flowing waterway, designed to create a series of quiet urban spaces. The 5 storey residences will contain 1600 large, superbly appointed apartments, available as 1, 2, 3 and 4 bedroom options, including some duplex and triplex.  At street level, the Wadi Walk will consist entirely of ethnic cafes, restaurants, convenience stores and boutiques; a cosmopolitan environment where residents can enjoy being outdoors all year round. The waterways and walk-ways will link this area to the Mall of Arabia.  

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Note to Editors
Ilyas & Mustafa Galadari Group
The Ilyas and Mustafa Galadari Group is a dynamic young company owning a number of diversified companies in Dubai. The most high profile of these, the Ilyas and Mustafa Galadari Management Investment and Development Company, is developing the key downtown area of Dubailand, the City of Arabia.

Sunseeker Middle East has now joined the Ilyas and Mustafa Galadari Group, who have declared their intention of increasing the market in the Gulf and Levant for yachts across the whole Sunseeker range, from 35 feet to 120 ft in length. The IMG Group is also a major player on the Dubai transport scene. It owns a large taxi-fleet, Metro Taxi, with an associated driving school, the Galadari Motor Driving Centre, and workshops, (the Metro Auto Repairing Branch), which together operate over 1100 vehicles of all descriptions. In addition the Group owns one of the largest cold stores complexes in Dubai. Ilyas and Mustafa Galadari also own a jewelry company, which deals in gems and precious stones, a kitchen equipment company, and a company which supplies upholstery to the automotive, boating and hospitality sectors, and specializes in customizing Range Rovers, Mercedes, BMWs and other luxury cars.

Poggenpohl 

More than 110 years ago the first German kitchen brand, today the best-known kitchen brand in the world: Poggenpohl.Throughout the world, Poggenpohl's name is associated with the luxury of individual and exclusive kitchens and with people who know what counts. Poggenpohl exports to more than 60 countries around the world and order volumes to the Middle East currently rank third behind the United States and Asia.

Poggenpohl has been a pioneer of kitchen design since it was first established in Germany over 114 years ago, winning international recognition for its innovations which include the world's first fitted kitchen in the 1960s.

Today, the company continues with award winning designs which are on display at ISH including +Segmento which won the Good Design Award from the Architecture and Design Museum "The Chicago Athenaeum" and +INTEGRATION, first launched in Milan which won five design awards including the "Interior Innovation Award Cologne 2005".

Poggenpohl is sold exclusively through Kitchens & Beyond in the UAE.

For more information please contact:
Jane Daly / Heba Hassan
GolinHarris
Capricorn Tower, 7th Floor
Sheikh Zayed RoadP.O.Box 116462
Dubai,
UAE
t: +971.4.332 3308 ext: 205 / 210
m: +971.50.6553084 / +971.50.6789617
f: +971.4.331 6733
jdaly@golinharris.com/hhassan@golinharris.com

Martina Rohel
Ilyas & Mustafa Galadari Group
PO Box 114444, Dubai,
UAE
Tel: +9714-3311022
Fax: +9714-3322311
info@imgaladari.com
Or call toll free on 800-8-800

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