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Sale ends Friday, June 27th, 1997 at 6 p.m. peppers and cucumber) and sour cream — are transported by 25 trucks to outlying distribution points in Ramallah, Gaza and eastern Jerusalem. The products then find their way to hundreds of groceries. In the last 15 years, Al-Junei- di Dairies has seen a tenfold growth in volume. At no point during this time did Mr. Al- Juneidi take outside investment nor has he relinquished any con- trol over the business. According to Mr. Al-Juneidi, his company accounts for over half the dairy sales in the pre- dominantly Palestinian areas. He is indisputably head-and- shoulders above the assorted mom-and-pop operations that also reach Palestinian grocery stores. Tnuva Marketing Director Ofer Bloch, however, assesses Mr. Al-Juneidi's market share at about 30 percent. As for Thuva's own share, the company says it does not officially analyze sales regionally, but still estimates its piece of the Palestinian market at about 50 percent. In a bid to increase sales fur- ther, particularly after his recent entrance into the hard-to-crack salads business (humus, tehina, eggplant, etc.), Mr. Al-Juneidi has now earmarked 10 percent of his budget for advertising — both on Palestinian and Jordan- ian TV. His next move is to purchase his own cows. "Palestinians prefer Palestin- ian products more than anyone else's," he says and adds that al- most 65 percent of the company's milk supplies are from inside the Palestinian territories. "We need about 2,000 cows to supply our own milk. I would start with half of that, and then local farmers can learn from the methods and they can produce more milk." This project, which would be a separate company from Al-Junei- di Dairies, will cost $3 million, a sum that will be difficult to raise. "The problem is not only mine. The problem belongs to the whole of the Palestinian people," says Mr. Al-Juneidi. "Mere is no true financial resource for us." What about the money re- portedly pouring in from all over the world? Mr. Al-Juneidi looks at his younger brother, Nidal, the company's technical manager and unofficial translator, and they laugh. Mr. Al-Juneidi shrugs. "The PA (Palestinian Authority) has no money. No money is coming in to us. We would take invest- ment for this if we could get it. "If we had the opportunities that everyone else in the world has, we'd be leaders. A lot of Palestinians have good brands, but they never had support or op- portunities." In a matter-of-fact way he dis- cusses not only the incentives that Israeli companies receive from the government and the fact that Al-Juneidi Dairies is not li- censed to sell outside Palestinian areas, but also the more pressing problems of how the current po- litical situation impedes business. During border closures, the company often can't get milk in or products out. With the prob- lems of an insecure economy and the threat of war on top, this all combines to hurt business. "We haven't seen any change with the new autonomy, but we hope things will get better. There is a saying in Arabic, 'If there is a strong wind, it will blow in all directions,' " in other words, the trickle-down theory. Mr. Al-Juneidi reveals the pa- triotic pride that seems to moti- vate him: "It is well known that the Palestinians built all the Arab lands. We hope we will have the opportunity of building our own country," he says. (c) Jerusalem Post 1997 ❑ Internet Phones Cost Bezeq More Jerusalem (JPFS) — Bezeq, Is- rael's national telephone compa- ny, stands to lose $31 million in its overseas dialing services by the year 2001 due to the growing use of electronic mail and Inter- net telephone connections. The analysis released by Phillips Tarifica, a London-based telecommunications consulting group, explained that these com- panies will lose out because the user is charged a local call rate while he links up with people worldwide. According to the latest analy- sis of Middle Eastern and Asian countries, Tarifica said the Third World telecommunications firm that stands to lose the most is VSNL of India, with some $59 million in losses. Telkom South Africa will lose a predicted $47 million, followed by Bezeq's $31 million and Etisalat (of the Unit- ed Arab Emirates) $30 million in the year 2001. The news comes a few weeks before Bezeq International's mo- nopoly on overseas phone call ser- vices in Israel is broken with the launching of Barak and Golden Lines services. Prices of interna- tional calls are expected to drop significantly. Publicity Deadlines The normal deadline for local news and publicity items is noon Thursday, eight days prior to issue date. 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