The Afribiz Foundation is leading a business development delegation to South Africa for US firms, September 8 through September 15, 2013. This trip will cover the energy (renewable/green, traditional), infrastructure, manufacturing, biotech, consumer markets, and banking/finance sectors. Like traditional business delegations, we help US firms connect with potential business partners in South Africa. Unlike traditional business delegations, we help US firms to develop partnerships in real-time and accelerate their business ventures in Africa through leveraging, synergized resources with pre-delegation and post-delegation facilitation. Also, unlike many others we maintain our own

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Lauri Elliott, CEO of the Afribiz Group, will lead a panel of experts that will walk you through a strategy focused on accelerating entry into African consumer markets. The strategy focuses on developing footprints in high population cities like Nairobi, Lagos, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Cairo, Kinshasa, many of which are capital cities. Africa is a vast continent with 54 countries, which makes it hard for companies to see the trees for the forest, but developing a network of markets in high-population cities makes strategy more pragmatic. The strategy is the

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Learn from local successful exporters along with federal, state and private sector export service providers. Topics include: Best practices for exporting How to assess export readiness Identify best export markets Locate qualified foreign buyers Compliance with U.S. export regulations Maximizing Free Trade Agreements Access export working capital How to negotiate and get paid for export sales Participation in federal and state export assistance programs REGISTER EARLY. Space is limited to 20 participants. When:          March 27, 2013 from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m. Location:  Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center –

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