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Sep 16, 2014 News
Guyana’s 19th Trade and Investment Exposition (GuyExpo) which began in 1995 will take place from October 2 to 5, 2014. Under the theme “Transformation: Partnering for a better Guyana’, the event will showcase locally produced goods and services.
The venue for the exhibition will be the Sophia Exhibition Site and will host an estimated 110,000 visitors, and 400 exhibitors, among them participants from eight countries.
What began as an activity that attracted close to 200 exhibitors is today Guyana’s biggest expo with over 460 businesses, both local and international participating annually, all given the occasion to present their locally produced goods and services.
GuyExpo became an annual event in 2004, under the Chairmanship of Keith Burrowes, and is now the longest sustained exhibition in the Caribbean. In 2004, the organisers took cognisance of the growth and interdependence of international trade and opened the exhibition to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and other regional exhibitors.
With its genesis as a biennial activity, GuyExpo has now morphed into a national event which offers business associates the opportunity to meet, network, and negotiate with international companies and establishments, as well as showcase their skills, talents and creative work, on an annual basis.
From its inception, the focus has remained on the development of small and medium sized enterprises, thereby ensuring that local businesses enjoy the level of growth and expansion that is needed for them to remain competitive at the regional and international levels.
Several businesses to have grown along with the expo from its genesis include A.H and L Kissoon, Toolsie Persaud Limited, Banks DIH, Demerara Distillers Limited, Geddes Grant and Gafoors.
Since its humble beginnings GuyExpo has come a long way and takes a permanent place on the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce’s Annual Calendar of Events.
This premier exposition and trade fair offers business associates the opportunity to meet, network and negotiate with international companies and establishments, as well as showcase their skills, talents and creative works.
This annual event provides a platform for both local and foreign businesses: importers, exporters, retailers, wholesalers. It fuses together a wide cross section of producers of handicraft, furniture, garments, jewellery, and horticulture, pharmaceuticals, tourism, information technology and most of all culture.
This ideal setting provides the opportunity for businesses to increase their competitiveness efficiency and foster growth.
GuyExpo is undertaken as a partnership among the Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, GO-Invest and the private sector; while exhibitors, franchise holders, game operators and entertainers play a major role in the overall success of the event. (GINA)
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