UBA in headline partnership with LCCI for 2019 Lagos international trade fair

… offers SME business customers 20% registration discount

United Bank for Africa, which has the subrequet Africa’s global bank, is headlining this year’s Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) organised Lagos International Trade Fair as principal partner, it emerged Thursday.

Between November 1 and 10th, when the 33rd edition of the fair is expected to hold, participants and attendees are expected to have the opportunity for networking and be exposed to other business opportunities that, overall, will assist to catapult business activities in Lagos, Africa’s largest and busiest city.

As headline partner for the fair, UBA will be working together with LCCI to provide a veritable platform that is intended to grow both domestic and international trade, further presenting participants and visitors with opportunities to seal medium and top business deals.

A statement from the bank noted that with its unflinching support to the growth of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), UBA is offering a 20 percent discount to its small and medium business customers who register to attend the fair.

Dupe Olusola, the bank’s group head, marketing, expressing her excitement at the partnership with LCCI, noted that the bank, with its extensive spread across Africa and other major economies of the world, is always on the lookout for partnership opportunities that will benefit the business environment and the economies where it operates.

Olusola noted that the bank is delighted as this year’s Lagos International Trade Fair is coming after a very successful organisation of UBAmarketplace by the bank in Abuja, where over 120 SMEs from 20 African countries exhibited their products, attracting over 50,000 footfalls.

She said, “UBA, the Pan African financial institution, has branches in 20 African countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States of America and France and has always been involved in activities that aim to strengthen business connections and networks across key economies.

“Thus, we have decided to partner with LCCI to promote this year’s fair which is in its 33rd edition because the Lagos International Trade Fair has become a genuine avenue for both domestic and international trade through business to business meetings, product launches, enlightenment opportunities for government agencies’ programmes, and international trade partnership deals across borders” she explained.

She added that the partnership will also offer the bank the opportunities to showcase its array of products to its teeming and new customers, adding that the bank will set up stands at various points to serve its customers and attend to various concerns.

Muda Yusuf, director general, LCCI, who praised the collaboration between both institutions, noted that it is a partnership that is expected to yield great benefits, owing to the fact that the LITF hosts an average of 2,000 exhibitors annually, with over 200 foreign exhibitors from 16 countries.

He also added that arrangements have been put in place to make this year’s fair even bigger and better than the previous editions, adding that already, existing and potential exhibitors have been responding positively to register and participate at the Fair.

“We at LCCI believe that this is part of the bold initiatives of the bank with a corporate culture founded upon strong organizational values and performance-driven operating standards”, Yusuf said.

Yusuf stressed that the Chamber would maintain the brand promise of the Fair, with the theme ‘Connecting businesses, Creating value’, adding that this will be sustained this year in all its marketing campaigns.