"Participation Builds Unity"
"MADE IN AFRICA - FOR AFRICA"
"Participation Builds Unity"
"MADE IN AFRICA - FOR AFRICA"
A 'FDA ENDORSED EVENT' SERVING AFRICA
EXPORT AFRICA 2005
17-19 MAY 2005
Providing a platform for trading, training seminars, business briefings and networking.
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The Gallagher Estate exhibition centre in Midrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, hosted the inaugural Export Africa 2005 exhibition, the continent’s first multi-sectoral export exhibition. This expo aims to become Africa’s premier annual export trading hub.
Export Africa offers Africa’s traders a platform from which to exhibit their products and services to an audience of global buyers and investors, and the opportunity to conclude meaningful business transactions at a world-class event.
The 2005 exhibition was endorsed by the South African Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) and sponsored by Standard Bank, trading as Stanbic Bank in Africa. The dti and Standard Bank view this initiative as an important opportunity to profile the export potential of participating African countries and South Africa. Both have therefore committed their support and resources to assist in securing the success of this event.
Said South African Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr. Mandisi Mpahlwa: “The South African government actively supports the vision of an Africa that is self-reliant, innovative and enterprising, but also interdependent. As African countries develop new partnerships with their neighbours, they will succeed in growing their exports to the global marketplace and attracting new investments from around the world.
“Exports are crucial to the economic growth of our continent and the realisation of the ‘African miracle’. They have enormous benefits for the economy; they create jobs, generate foreign exchange, encourage investment, support the development of new infrastructure, encourage competitiveness, promote innovation and stimulate the development of the SME sector.
“Export Africa 2005 is a manifestation of, among others, the trans-continental cooperation which African leaders are striving to achieve via bodies such as NEPAD, the African Union and regional entities such as SADC, ECOWAS, the EAC and COMESA. It is about actively encouraging, promoting and facilitating both international and intra-national trade between African countries and the rest of the world. We are 100% behind Export Africa 2005 and are committed to ensuring its success.”
David Munro, Deputy Managing Director of Standard Bank’s Corporate and Investment Banking division was equally supportive of the event and comments on his company’s involvement: “Export Africa 2005 will allow Standard Bank to showcase its trade promotion services, along with its experience in providing infrastructure development and project and corporate finance services across the continent. Certainly, it will allow us to demonstrate the quality and breadth of our economic research capability.”
A regional banking force with a global presence, the Standard Bank Group is rooted in Africa, with its head office in Johannesburg, South Africa and strategic representation in 17 key sub-Saharan markets. The Group is the major provider of trade services in the region, a factor which makes its allegiance to Export Africa 2005 particularly significant. These trade services include the full spectrum of trade options, from payment to financing mechanisms.
Exhibitors at Export Africa 2005 included Africa’s manufacturers, exporters and investors from the following sectors: transport (particularly automotive replacement parts); construction and infrastructure; chemicals and pharmaceuticals; ICT and electronics; agro-processing; clothing, textiles, leather and footwear; tourism (investment); arts and crafts; provinces and cities; and service providers to the export industry. For ease of location, each sector will be represented in its own pavilion.
In addition to the exhibition, several training seminars, business briefings and networking events added significant benefits and variety to all participants in Export Africa 2005.
The expo will actively target and attract visitors from a global pool of importers who are looking to source products from Africa. In addition, it will draw substantial numbers of visitors from Africa, as they look to their neighbours for products to import to their own countries and perhaps even to export from there to international customers.
To achieve global awareness for and participation in Export Africa, the expo will be marketed to buyers from Africa and the rest of the world with the support, data sources and international buyer lists of several key partners and associates.
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THE SOUTH AFRICAN MINISTER OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY, MANDISI MPAHLWA’S COMMENTS ON
South Africa is committed to supporting Africa as it strives to achieve its true economic potential. We believe that we can show the world an “African miracle” in these early years of the 21st Century.
Export Africa 2005 aims to support this vision and the objectives of NEPAD. Not only will the event include a multi-sectoral trade exhibition for South African and African companies to promote their goods and services to regional and global buyers, it will also offer an outstanding export training programme for new and existing exporters from around the continent, thus building their capacity to engage with foreign customers on a professional basis.
Export Africa 2005 is committed to supporting the growth of an export culture and the event will include an “Export Services Division”. This will enable new and existing exporters from South Africa and Africa to hold face-to-face discussions with providers of essential export services, such as product testing and certification, quality control, training, packaging and packing, finance, insurance, transport and intellectual property.
The success of Export Africa 2005 will be a further step in achieving our export targets and in the development of the “African miracle”. For this reason we are supporting Export Africa 2005 and would like to offer our best wishes to everyone involved, sponsors, organisers, exhibitors and visitors, for a very successful event.
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This includes:
The Standard Bank/Stanbic Bank; the dti Foreign Offices; The South African Department of Foreign Affairs; the dti Sector Desks; Export Councils; international trade promotion agencies; international chambers of commerce; the UN/World Bank and The European Union databases; and global import promotion agencies.
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