L.G. agent store to open in Sulaimaniya next week

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: A branch of LG Electronics will open in the Iraqi northern city of Sulaimaniya next week, the director of al-Seera Company for Computers and Communications said on Saturday. “Next week, we will open Rihab al-Seera Company in Sulaimaniya city,” Salah Basheer Abdelmawgood, the director of al-Seera, which is a major distributor of LG Electronics products in Iraq, told IraqiNews.com. “Our company sells all types of electrical appliances and offers after-sale service and spare parts all over Iraq…,” the director noted. LG Electronics is a South Korean multinational corporation. It is South Korea’s second largest electronics maker and the world’s third largest appliance maker. The modern city of Sulaimaniya, 364 kilometers north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, was founded in 1748 by a Kurdish prince known as Ibrahim Pasha Baban who named it for his father Sulaiman Pasha. Since being founded as the capital of a powerful Kurdish principality it has grown to about 1,800,000 people. Sulaimaniya, known as Zamwa prior to its founding, is the cultural center of the Sorani-speaking Kurds and an important economic centre for Iraqi Kurdistan. SS (S) 1