The largest segment of respondents in Dubai’s industrial
sector (21%) was engaged in construction activities (see
Table1). The rest were fairly evenly distributed among
chemicals/plastics and food (14% each) and engineering
and paper/packaging (12% each). Textiles and electronics
constituted 11% apiece. As expected, oil and gas
companies constituted the least at 5%, which is consistent
with Dubai’s strategy of diversifying from oil-based
activities to nonoil-based activities because of shrinking
oil resources