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."
" The yearly organization of the fair will also 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.
01 March 07
