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Companies with valid registration and licence outside KEZAD can apply for the formation of a branch company at KEZAD Group.

The Branch Company can be either registered as a branch of a UAE Company or a branch of a Foreign Company.

As the name suggests, the company is a limited liability company, having a minimum paid-up capital of AED 150,000 or such higher paid-up capital as may be prescribed.

It can be formed by a minimum of 2 (two) and a maximum of 50 (fifty) shareholders whose liability is limited to their shares in the business capital. It can be owned by individual or corporate or individual and corporate.

Free Zone companies in KEZAD are able to obtain an additional licence from the Department of Economic Development, Abu Dhabi, which enables Free Zone companies operating in KEZAD to carry out their economic activities outside the Free Zone without the need for additional offices or business facilities.

Permits the import of raw material, manufacturing, processing, assembling, packaging and export of intermediate and/or finished products and other such industrial activities.

Permits trading activities that include import, export, distribution, stocking, warehousing of products and items specified on the licence and other such trading activities.

A General Trading Licence applies in cases where the total number of products exceeds 17 or the total number of groups exceeds 3.

Permits service activities such as management and economic consulting services, marketing services, logistical support services such as cargo and freight forwarding, restaurants, retail food outlets, catering services, travel agencies and other service activities.