Dubai, UAE – The Dubai World Chamber, one of the three chambers operating under the umbrella of the Dubai Chambers, announced its main achievements during the year 2025.
Which embodies its effective role in stimulating the growth of foreign direct investment flows to Dubai and enhancing its competitiveness as a leading global center for trade and investment.
During 2025, the Dubai World Chamber succeeded in attracting 373 diverse companies.
Includes multinational companies and small and medium-sized enterprises, compared to 207 companies attracted in 2024.
This achieves an 80.2% growth in the number of companies attracted to Dubai by the Chamber.
The list of companies attracted by the Chamber last year included 64 multinational companies, compared to 51 companies attracted by the Chamber in 2024, a growth of 25.5%.
The Chamber also attracted 309 small and medium-sized companies in 2025, an increase of 98% compared to 156 companies attracted in 2024.
Last year, the Chamber participated in 235 external and promotional events covering 190 cities around the world with the aim of showcasing Dubai’s competitive investment advantages.
The Chamber also received 141 international trade delegations, including 673 participants from various economic sectors.
With the aim of enhancing ways of joint cooperation and developing new and qualitative opportunities for business communities in Dubai and countries around the world.
This is part of its efforts to strengthen economic partnerships globally, expand horizons of international cooperation, and raise the level of integration between business communities around the world
The Chamber also continued to expand its network of external offices to reach 38 offices by the end of 2025.
Over the past year, it has strengthened its global presence by opening nine new representative offices in Karachi, Pakistan; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Cape Town, South Africa; Bangalore, India; Bangkok, Thailand; and Toronto, Canada.
This comes within the framework of the commitment to achieving the goals of the Dubai Global Initiative, which aims to launch 50 representative offices around the world by 2030 to enhance Dubai’s role as a leading global business center.
In addition to attracting foreign direct investment to the emirate, and supporting the expansion of Dubai companies in 30 priority markets worldwide.
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In 2025, the Chamber also opened its first representative office in the United States, headquartered in New York; its first representative office in Eastern Europe in Warsaw, Poland; and its first representative office in Scandinavia in Stockholm, Sweden.
Over the past year, the Chamber’s external representative offices organized 505 round discussion tables to promote Dubai as a global business destination, attract foreign direct investments, and introduce Dubai as a center for external expansion of global markets.
The Dubai World Chamber network of offices constitutes a strategic platform that connects Dubai companies with business communities around the world.
It facilitates the flow of intra-investment and opens new channels for bilateral trade.
It also works to support companies in the countries in which they operate to take advantage of the opportunities available in Dubai as a gateway to various global markets.
The Chamber’s external representative offices play a vital role in introducing business communities around the world to Dubai’s competitive advantages as an ideal destination for growth and expansion.
The offices also provide valuable information about the Dubai market, and support the growth of global companies seeking to consolidate their presence in the emirate and expand from there to promising markets.
