US-Africa Business Summit a success

Manake stated that the summit accorded SMEs with a great opportunity to showcase locally produced goods and services to other parts of the continent and to the US.

She further stated that because of the summit, SMEs benefited greatly as a plethora of sales were recorded in just four days of the summit. “As a result of the deliberate efforts to position the SMEs to benefit from the summit, a total of P485,636.00 worth of sales was recorded during the four days which is testament that more could be achieved to grow SMEs due to events of this nature,” Manake told Parliament. Manake highlighted that even to date the SMEs are still working on orders that were made during the summit to international markets and she feels that local businesses should always grab opportunities before them. “We believe that our local businesses would continue to tap on the market access opportunity opened for them and we would continue to facilitate and encourage them to carry on improving products and service quality,” she said.