United Bank for Africa is giving 20 per cent discount to its small and medium business customers who register to attend the 2019 Lagos International Trade Fair which holds November 1-10 at the Tafawa Balewa Square Complex.
UBA’s group head of marketing, Mrs. Dupe Olusola said who disclosed this in a statement also said the bank will partner with the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) to organise the fair which is in its 33rd edition.
She said the fair will provide an avenue for networking and other business opportunities that will assist to catapult business activities in Africa’s largest and busiest city, Lagos and in Nigeria.
Olusola described UBA as “headline partner” that “will be working together with LCCI, to provide a veritable platform that is intended to grow both domestic and international trade” in addition to presenting participants and visitors with opportunities to seal medium and top business deals.
She added: “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.
“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 said.
She said 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.”
She added that the partnership will also offer the bank the opportunities to showcase its array of products to its teeming and new customers.
Olusola further stated that the bank set up stands at various points to serve its customers and attend to various concerns.
The director general of LCCI, Mr. Muda Yusuf is also quoted to have welcomed the collaboration which according to him “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 stated that plans had been perfected “to make this year’s fair even bigger and better than the previous editions.”
Already, he said existing and potential exhibitors had responded “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,” said Yusuf.
