Investment Minister Ashraf Salman held a series of meetings with officials and chief executive officers of the holding public business companies and their affiliates.

In a statement, Salman said he met with Chairman of Chemical Industries Holding Company (CIHC) Reda Al Adl and board chairmen of a number of the affiliated companies.

He called for doubling efforts to boost the companies' revenues during the coming period.

The meetings come within the framework of examining and evaluating the business results of the 2013/2014 fiscal year and the business results of July and June of the current fiscal year, he asserted.

The minister reviewed the future expansion plans during the upcoming period, urging the companies' heads to make good use of all untapped assets.

He called on the public business sector's companies to apply the governance rules, activate the role of the internal audit committees, follow up the companies' activities and verify the safety of the organizational structures of companies.