The fifth edition of ‘Promote’ opens in Yaounde

The 5th edition of the international fair of entrepreneurship, SMEs and partnership for 2014, which will be held at the Congress Hall in Yaoundé accommodating more than a thousand national and international exhibitors was opened Saturday, according to the organizers.

The fair, which will take place from 6 to 14 December, is held every three years on 9.5 acre location with a secured 5.6 hectares of exhibition space; It offers a range of ten rooms ranging from 50, 100, 200, 400 and 1500 places for exchanges and debates during the exhibition.

During the duration of the show, several packages are provided by the organizers, including concerts, the B2B meetings for a public sector - private sector partnership exemplary and mutually beneficial, and aperitifs thematic on agriculture and the agro-industry, information technology and telecommunications (ICT), building and public works, forestry and wood, energy and water, mining and processing industry, health, finance, microfinance and insurance, crafts and crafts books, tourism and recreation, communication, media and Interior, Intra and Inter-regional trade and International, industry and mines, and other transportation.

According to Pierre Zumbach, the organizer of Promote, his event "offers to entrepreneurs of Africa and of the world who seek to develop their vision and to better understand how to participate in these new economic challenges in a region of the continent little noticed so far, an exceptional pool of contacts and information in the form of B2B, networking, forums, conferences and debates".

"Such unpublished or repeated contacts will allow some to consolidate gains, others to enrich their knowledge and to create multiple relationships including business partnerships born of direct relations that business managers can establish in an international exhibition such as Promote and essentially reconcile national economic interests with the growth, consumption, investment and multifaceted partnerships," he added.

At Promote 2011, organizers recorded 17 African , Europe, America and Asia pavilions and 3 economic missions and several national days, the economic community of Central Africa States (ECCAS) had invited in its exhibition 37 Chambers of commerce, employers, professional associations, major thematic associations including the business women.

Also 40 national, regional, international institutions, namely, ministries, agencies, intermediary organizations - Chambers of commerce, employers, trade associations - 400 small and medium-sized enterprises of Central Africa, 5,000 business appointments including 500 prepared in advance for exhibitors, 84 debates organized by the exhibitors and the institutions and two great discussions and forums had furnished the 2011 edition.