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Business Activities in a UAE Free Zone
With more than 50 free zones in the UAE, choosing the one that best aligns with your business activities can be a challenge.

Types of business activities you can conduct

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  • Commercial or trading
  • Consultancy or professional services
  • Industrial
  • Real Estate
  • Education and Training
  • Advertising and Media
  • IT Services
  • Retail
  • eCommerce
  • Offshore
  • Freelancer
  • Warehousing
  • Manufacturing.

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Accordingly, some types of business licences are:

In Advertising and Media sector, you can carry out the following businesses:

  • Content production
  • Advertising
  • Animation
  • Corporate Film production
  • Corporate Print Material
  • Digital content production (e.g. CGI, 3D etc)
  • Educational content material
  • Film production
  • Gaming development
  • Graphic design
  • Illustration
  • Mobile media (e.g. content for interactive media services on mobile phones)
  • Music production and recording
  • Music videos
  • Online electronic content production (e.g. websites, e-books, travel guides etc.)
  • Performing arts and theatre
  • Photography/videography
  • Print content production (e.g. magazines, journals, periodicals, newsletters, guides, and handbooks etc.)
  • Radio content production
  • Script writing
  • Software development (e.g. applications)
  • Song writing and composing
  • TV production
  • Web design and development (e.g. portal, search engine, community site, web production, online library)

Other business activities

  • Branding Agency
  • Events/Festivals
  • Exhibitions/Conferences
  • Information Services (e.g. media related market research)
  • Marketing Communications
  • Media content management (e.g. digital archiving)
  • Post Production (e.g. Film, TV, editing services)
  • Professional Association (e.g. non-profit)
  • Public Relations
  • Rights Management
  • Training (media related)

Publishing and broadcasting

  • publish a book
  • publish a magazine
  • publish a newspaper
  • broadcast a satellite/terrestrial television channel
  • broadcast a satellite/terrestrial radio channel

In this case, you would need to apply for a dissemination licence.

In UAE, you can choose from over 600 business activities ranging from over 20 sectors such as energy, commodities, gold and diamonds, technology, constructions, FMCG, healthcare, aviation, shipping, education, media, professional services, financial services and personal and community services.