Openet B.V. is the arm of BDS Holding that opens and holds the relationship: institutional cooperation with chambers, confederations and government bodies, the delegations that travel, and the events where buyers and suppliers first meet.
The institutional framework is held by Openet and is available to all three. A chamber introduction, a delegation or a festival is not a marketing expense here — it is the first stage of a transaction the other two companies finish.
Culture supplies the occasion.
Culture is not decoration here. It supplies the occasion and the audience, and the trade follows in the same room.
The heritage and exhibition name, registered to Openet B.V. at the Chamber of Commerce.
Antika World carries the group’s cultural and heritage work: exhibitions, and certified reproductions of Egyptian antiquities made to museum specification and authenticated by Egypt’s antiquities authority. It is the programming the festivals draw on.
The Litaarafu agreement with the Union of Arab Chambers is signed in the name of Openet B.V. / Antika.
A festival that turns culture into trade.
An Arab cultural programme staged in a commercial venue — giving business delegations a public occasion to travel for, and Dutch companies a reason to attend.
Egyptian heritage, staged to open commercial doors as well as cultural ones.
KEMET pairs exhibition and cultural programming — heritage, craft, music and food — with structured business introductions, so a delegation travelling for the cultural programme meets counterparties while it is in the country. It also puts the group’s heritage work in front of a public audience.
The room, and the standing to fill it.
The convening work, and the agreements that make it count. Openet holds the institutional framework on behalf of the whole group.
The group’s flagship convening event.
It brings Balkan and Dutch industrial principals together with Egyptian and Arab counterparties for structured matchmaking rather than open exhibition. Delegates are prepared against sector briefs and meet a screened list of counterparties.
Part of the ABC Initiative.
Ahmed Nasr, Chairman and Chief Executive of BDS Holding, is the Union’s Representative for the Balkans — the apex federation of Arab national chambers.
An agreement with the Union of Arab Chambers under the League of Arab States. Litaarafu — “Know Each Other” — is a cultural and trade platform.
A cooperation agreement with Egypt’s national carrier on the international promotion and revitalisation of Egyptian tourism destinations.
Where the corridor is built.
Property sits naturally beside the trading business: the cities along the corridor — Sofia, Thessaloniki, Amsterdam — are also the places where the group builds, holds and operates.
The group’s real estate and property arm — the vehicle through which every property mandate runs.
V.Estate works across the full cycle: sourcing sites and buildings, feasibility appraisal, planning and zoning analysis, market study, structuring the transaction, and carrying a project from first appraisal through development to an operating asset. It acts both for the group’s own account and for clients — buy-side where an investor needs the ground checked before committing, owner-side where an asset needs repositioning.
Current work includes mixed-use redevelopment in central Sofia and the retail and hospitality concepts the group develops for itself.
Events end. Relationships should not.
A festival lasts three days and an expo lasts two. The network has to exist on the other three hundred and sixty.
A membership business club in Amsterdam for trade, innovation and investment.
Designed as the standing room where corridor relationships are maintained between events — the place the network exists on the days when nothing is being staged.
A BDS Holding initiative, held at group level rather than by any one company. It is the sequence of ports, gateways and inland hubs along which goods actually move between the Gulf, Egypt, the Balkans and the Netherlands — a working trade lane rather than a market boundary.
The Arab Balkan Trade Expo is the ABC Initiative’s convening event
BDS Holding B.V., Amsterdam, sits above three operating companies. Each runs its own projects and brands. The holding structures, finances and develops; the subsidiaries operate.
BDS Holding was established in the Netherlands in 2019 and is active in infrastructure, urban development, culture, trade, logistics and destination-based concepts.