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Golden Jubilee Fair to be extended
Accra, Feb 28, GNA - The ongoing international Trade Fair
dubbed; the Golden Jubilee fair, which is officially
scheduled to end on March 8 is to be
extended for three more days.Consequently, the Fair will now
close on 11th March 2007.
Ms Esther Ofori, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana
International Trade Fair Company (GITF) made this known to
the press after she conducted Most Rev Dr Asante Antwi,
Member of the Council of State and Chairman of Ghana
Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) Board of Directors around
pavilion A where made in Ghana goods are on display.
Ms Ofori said the extension of the period would be at no
cost to the exhibitors, saying that they would have more
time to do business.
Asked whether the annual holding of the fair would not
result in fatigue on the part of exhibitors, Ms Ofori said
she did not envisage any such problem.
She explained that the extension would rather introduce
competition among exhibitors who did not always have to be
at the fair, adding that, "it is not
necessary to always have the same exhibitors at the fair, as
far as they have established their contacts with their
target market."
yield very good revenue for GITF to enable the company used
the proceeds in the refurbishment of the infrastructure to
attract more exhibitors", she said.
She cited Domod, an exhibitor of cooking utensils, who had
over the years participated in almost every fair but has in
recent times introduced the production
of roofing sheets to its production line to compete among
other exhibitors.
She appealed to the Banks to help prop up the small scale
industries, which need support to bring their brilliant
ideas into fruition and stop the overt concentration on the
well-established industries.
"The Banks should rather give loans to the small scale
industries in the country, rather than to giving loans to
companies who had made it on their own", she advised.
Meanwhile, Most Rev Dr Asante Antwi Member of the Council of
State expressed, his appreciation about the participation of
small scale industries and also the exhibition of made in
Ghana goods in this year's Jubilee Fair.
GNA
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