Invitation: Invest in Ethiopia Forum (04/04/2018)

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NABC in cooperation with the Ethiopian Embassy in Brussels invites you to the ‘Invest in Ethiopia Forum’ on Wednesday, April 4th at the Malietoren in The Hague. The Forum seeks to inform and inspire the Dutch business community about opportunities in Ethiopia, Africa’s fastest growing economy. It focuses specifically on investment opportunities abound in the country’s Industrial Parks and integrated Agro-Industrial parks. 

Representatives from the Industrial Parks will explain the benefits of setting up a business in the park, which include tax holidays, affordable electricity, competitive labour costs and a one-stop shop for everything foreign companies need. International fashion brands like Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein have already set up production factories on such Industrial Parks. Equally, Dutch agro-processing company Moyee Coffee has set-up manufacturing operations in the country.

Dutch investors and financial institutions, such as the Dutch Good Growth Fund, RVO, FMO, ING and Rabobank, will be present to tackle the component of access to finance, with European businesses active in Ethiopia sharing their experiences with us.

Priority sectors of this event are:

  • Textile and Garments
  • Agro-processing (Dairy, Poultry, Horticulture, food)

Mid/High-level companies, interested in setting up a business in an Industrial Park are warmly welcomed. NABC’s Arne Doornebal visited the Hawassa Industrial Park in 2017 and wrote this article about it in NABC Magazine.

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Programme

13:00 Walk-in and registration

13:30 Word of welcome. By HE Teshome Toga, the Ambassador of Ethiopia and NABC

13:50 Doing Business in Ethiopia. By officials from Ethiopia

14:15 European entrepreneurs about doing business in Ethiopia:

– Thierry Viale, General Manager, Growth Market Divisions, Ontex Global  

– Guido van Staveren van Dijk, Founder, Moyee Coffee

15:00 Introduction of investors an financial institutions: Dutch Good Growth Fund, RVO, FMO, ING, & Rabobank

15:15 Coffee break

15:30 Roundtables

Roundtable 1. General information on Ethiopian Investment Opportunities and incentives, priority sectors, Industrial Parks and Integrated Agro-Industrial Parks and specific information to Hawassa, Bole Lemi, Kilinto and Areti Industrial Parks

Roundtable 2. General information on Ethiopian Investment Opportunities and incentives, priority sectors, Industrial Parks and Integrated Agro-Industrial Parks and specific information on Kombolcha, Makele, Adama, Dire Dawa and Debrebirhan Industrial Parks

16:30 Follow-up one on one meetings between financial institutions, entrepreneurs, the Ethiopian Industrial Parks Development Corporation and officials of the Ethiopian embassy.

17:15 Closing remarks

17:30 Networking opportunity

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More information: https://www.nabc.nl/services/events/346/invest-in-ethiopia-forum