UGANDA’S 16TH TRADE SHOW TO PROMOTE UGANDA’S IMAGE

The 16th Uganda's International Trade Fair has been beefed up with all business firms and all the manufacturers, exhibitors other tourism firms in its attempt to promote Uganda investment sector as well as the tourism sector in what we call the show case of Uganda which stand a high chances of promoting the country’s image to the whole world, as many people travel from different countries to participate in this show since commodities are sold at half price and people get a chance of being exposed to different new products, and the entrance fee is pocket friendly to every interesting party since its affordable.
Its worldly known that this trade show normally takes place every year on 6th of October where its almost championed by members from different member countries from east Africa as well as exhibitors from around the globe , according to the chairman of the trade show he has said.

The fair, which kicked off on Monday with good attendance from the public and exhibitors, is expected to attract over 900 exhibitors.

“All security agencies ranging from Police, Internal Security Organization (ISO), External Security Organization (ESO), Joint Anti-Terrorism Team (JATT) and the Presidential Guard Brigade (PGB) are involved,” the Uganda Manufacturers’ Association’s chairman, James Kalibbala, told a press conference.

Last year, the fair had 817 exhibitors from 31 countries and 170,000 show-goers.

Kalibbala said the fair would provide a forum for global business networking, enabling trade and investment among foreign and local businesspeople to thrive.

He said the participating countries include Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Thailand, Pakistan, China, India, Ethiopia, Singapore, Turkey, Taiwan, Egypt, Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Nigeria, Germany and South Africa.

“There has been an increase in bookings of service companies and institutions for awareness and promotional drives for their programmes,” Kalibbala said.

The theme for this year’s fair is: “Linking Production to Prospective Markets Through Value-Addition.”

“This theme is appropriate and in line with the Government’s vision of putting in place varied integrated economic programmes that are geared towards modernization of agriculture and industrial transformation.”

Kalibbala said Uganda’s industries can only survive on a viable and robust agricultural sector, especially for raw materials.