Established in 1978, the Al Hilal Group is one of the Middle East’s leading publishing and marketing organisations well known for its newspapers in Bahrain, the Gulf Daily News and Akbar Al Khaleej, business directories and regional trade magazines such as Gulf Construction and Travel and Tourism News. All publications are backed up by on line editions (see www.alhilalgroup.com ), the business news portal www.tradearabia.com and a growing number of conferences and exhibitions. Recent diversity includes IT, recruitment and loyalty programmes. Al Hilal employs over 400 staff with offices in Bahrain, Dubai, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia (3), London and as of September 2009, Abu Dhabi.