African Food Exhibition: NACC’s blueprint to scale up non-oil exports

The Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce (NACC) has concluded plans to hold its Annual Bilateral Exhibition & Conference.

The 2nd African Food and Products Conference and Exhibition (AFPE) is themed, ‘Non-Oil Exports: Scaling Up Productivity to Meet Global Demand’ and is scheduled to take place on May 25 and 26 at the InterContinental Hotel, Lagos.

The exhibition is aimed at promoting the growth of Nigeria’s non-oil export, trade, commerce, investment and industrial technological relationships between the public and private sectors of Nigeria, Africa and the United States of America.

A number of industry experts, market leaders, business professionals, analysts and research professionals across the non-oil export value chain will attend, while Yemi Osinbajo, vice president, ministers, governors, US ambassador to Nigeria, CEOs of leading Nigerian and multinational firms, captains of industries, private sector investors, and the U.S. diplomatic corps, among others, will be present.

 The AFPE 2018 will attract MSMEs, start-up business owners, international & local suppliers, and distributors of food & beverage products, among others, with a view to further projecting their brands and increasing export sales by maximising the benefits of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).

In 2017, the event had over 1500 attendees from within Nigeria and the United States and it produced about N185 million in actual and projected sales for the companies that exhibited.

“This year, over the 2-day period of the , we expect to have over 2,500 attendees from across Nigeria, Africa and the United States, thus presenting a viable opportunity for exhibiting companies to grow their sales, showcase their products to a target audience and strike million dollars international deals,”  a statement from NACC says.

ODINAKA ANUDU