The Business Executive Media Group is currently in the process of organizing the first ever pan African awards scheme for Small & Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs). The aim of the awards scheme and the accompanying pan African conference is to identify and publicly recognize SMEs all around the continent whose competencies, performance and conduct are exemplary and whose potentials for corporate growth and contributions to the socio-economic fortunes of their sovereign host jurisdictions and/or wider sub regional and pan continental economies stand out as exceptional.
The conference will provide a platform for the owners, shareholders and managers of identified exceptional African SMEs to network, exchange expertize and experiences and forge business relationships and alliances with each other towards the creation and sustenance of pan continental supply chains, while creating the opportunity to create and exploit new product/service markets and sources of production inputs. It will be interactive with contributions guided by presentations delivered by carefully selected experts in each aspect of SME activity management .
Awards will be conferred across a wide range of delineated categories. Awardees will be selected using a comprehensive process, completely divorced of any influence by the event organizers themselves. This process will involve due diligence of nominations and assessments by dedicated research consultants and ultimately assessments by our specially constituted Awards Jury comprising experts in the relevant fields. Categories for conferment of awards will cover: SMEs as entities; individual awards conferred on entrepreneurs and managers; business support service providers; and regulatory and facilitation institutions.
The awards will guide wider stakeholders, including actual and potential customers/clients, employees, financiers/investors, business support service providers, regulators, facilitators and host communities etc, as to their superior market positioning, financial standing and management competencies; and will thus identify socio-economic opportunities for their stakeholders. The awards conferment event will provide a further key platform for representatives of award winning SMEs and their business support providers and facilitators/regulators to interact within an ambient and relaxed atmosphere.
Both the conference and ensuing awards conferment ceremony will be held on 19th April in Lome, the capital of Togo.
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