Thousands of professionals to attend Africa Trade Week 2019 in South Africa

Over 10,000 trade stakeholders are set to converge on Johannesburg in June next year for Africa Trade Week, the key platform for continental trade across the retail, hospitality, food & beverage and wholesale sectors.

Africa Trade Week, hosted by dmg events, incorporates three leading exhibitions – The Hotel Show Africa, Africa’s Big 7 and SAITEX, as well as their associated conferences and workshops, to create the new home of trade highlighting pan-African business opportunities, products, services, equipment, supplies, innovations, technology and solutions.

The co-location of these leading events will bring together over 10,000 international industry professionals from 53 countries and over 500 exhibitors from more than 40 countries for three days of business negotiations, networking, market research and knowledge-sharing.

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“Africa Trade Week will bring together the pan-African and international hospitality, tourism, food & beverage and retail sectors for a world-class gathering under the theme “Africa – the new home of trade,” says Brad Hook, Divisional Director at dmg events Middle East, Asia and Africa.

 “With multiple strategic overlaps between the three sectors, these events will now bring the world to Africa and Africa to the world to source products, discuss issues and trends, and identify opportunities for international trade,” Hook said.

He added that, “Africa Trade Week is the three-day international trading platform that establishes South Africa as the gateway to the continent while delivering the latest cutting edge innovations, new ideas and products, trends, insight and future thinking.

“We expect Africa Trade Week to become firmly established as the go-to event in the global calendar and the only place to find new products, secure new clients and meet leading professionals from across the globe.”

Africa Trade Week will be held from June 23 – 25, 2019, at the Gallagher Convention Centre, Johannesburg.