The
Board Chairman of the World Trade Centre Accra, Togbe Afede XIV, will be
leading a delegation of prominent business professionals to participate in a
trade and investment mission to Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo, Brazil, from the
29th of March to 3rd April 2014.
The visit is to allow trade missions and other
companies interested in exploring new business opportunities in Ghana to visit
the country and meet government officials for the execution of such businesses.
It will as well promote joint venture businesses for business growth.
It
is targetted at consolidating bilateral relations between the two countries,
aimed at attracting investment opportunities for the country’s development.
The trade mission will include companies
interested in exploring business opportunities in a broad array of economic
sectors; particularly in the Information Technology, Agriculture,
Infrastructure areas among others.
Among
other sectors of interest is also included: Autoparts, Aviation, Construction,
Energy, Gil and gas, Real Estate, Textiles, Transportation etc.
Some of the firms comprising the trade mission
are entrepreneurs in the aviation industry, construction and energy business
owners, managing directors of information and communication sectors, and
business leaders among cross-border traders.
There
will be business to business meetings with Brazilian companies including: JBS
Friboi, Queiroz Galvao, Sabo and Stafanini.
As part of the mission, Ghana’s Ambassador to Brazil,
Wallace Gbedemah, will
host a business summit to be held in Sao
Paolo and will seek to introduce the Brazilian business
operators to key issues in Ghana: including How to access the
Ghanaian Market and Legal aspects in
the Ghanaian business environment.
The
business
to business meeting will have a keynote presentation on
the topic ‘The African Growth Cradle for
the Next Decade’.
Other
speakers expected at the business summit will include Mr. William des Bordes of
Weston Group, and Mr. Larry Otoo of Fugars & Co.
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