Dubai is the perfect base for international distribution due to the privileged location at the crossroads of the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia. With the strategic positioning, it is the ideal setting for companies dealing in Printing & Publishing, Packaging. The IMP Free Zone in Dubai has been designed to provide a convenient, central location within Dubai with all of the services and infrastructure to ensure quick and easy distribution to Dubai and the UAE and the world, with excellent access via the Emirates Road, the Dubai Jebel Ali Port and Jebel Ali Airport.

The benefit to having a unique zone catering to the specific media and production sector is clustering allows for greater opportunities for interaction and collaboration between companies, a pooling of resources and hub for the interaction of like minded residents.

The free zone is part of the master vision of the Dubai Government to enable Dubai to become the global hub for media companies by providing unrivalled services and excellent infrastructure coupled with property ownership in residential, commercial, and industrial real estate.

The IMPZ consists of 43 million square feet of land combined with over $280 million in investment. The Free Zone provides enticing advantages to companies wishing to set a base or relocate to a region providing unrivalled facilities.
The location will enable full freehold ownership of property and is exempt from corporate and personal taxation, including tax on equipment, raw materials, and machinery necessary for industry.

The IMPZ follows the successful centralizing of other industries within Dubai which has already been a success story. The ability to co-ordinate and plan print production and to share services allows for the smoother running of businesses and cost reduction and more timely distribution. The ability to easily pool resources enables small to medium sized business set up with minimal costs to reduce timescales and costs, to become instantly more competitive.

The residential areas provide the perfect location for cheap accommodation for blue collar workers, in a unique family environment with able green space and the necessary facilities for convenient living such as supermarkets, healthcare, banking and recreational facilities.
The zone is created with the environment firmly in mind with eco-friendly recycling facilities for residential and industrial waste products allowing the waste products of one industry to be easily available and accessible to become the raw materials for another, and the new Jebel Ali airport will allow the carriage of 12 million tons of cargo annually.Other facilities provided in the Zone include:

1. Internal transportation system

2. Convention and business centres

3. Hotels

4. Office Towers

5. Residential units

6. Pre-build production facilities

7. Transportation and service centre for vehicles

8. Community centres for residential residents

9. Warehousing and storage facilities

10. Shared Distribution centres

11. State of the art communications infrastructure