EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Africa UK Business Conference & Awards are being organized and hosted by The Business Executive Media Group in collaboration with the Africa Chamber of Trade and the International Business Council. The entire event is designed in response to the growing trend of regionalism by the industrialized nations of the western hemisphere which have led to events such as the United States – Africa Summit and the United Kingdom – Africa Summit; and which have subsequently been replicated by eastern hemisphere countries such as Russia and China. The impending event aims at extending this trend - with specific focus on trade and investment - to Africa and the UK which is the largest single trading partner of most of the continent’s biggest economies which are led by Nigeria and South Africa, and which importantly are the UK’s traditional biggest economic counterparties with business relationships stretching back centuries.
Our ground-breaking conference and awards aim to encourage, support and facilitate sharply increased trade and investment activities between investors, traders and enterprises in the UK and participating countries from all around Africa on both bilateral and multilateral levels, the latter leveraging largely on the preferential trade and investment opportunities that the African Continental Free Trade Agreement has created for counterparty countries in all the other continents of the world. To do this the event will host a conference to be participated in by individuals and representatives of enterprises/institutions identified as award winners because of their exemplary capacities, conduct, performance and impact with regards to trade and investment between Africa and the UK; and carefully selected stakeholders in the promotion, facilitation and regulation of trade, investment and wider economic relationships between the two.
The full day conference will be followed immediately in the evening with the awards conferment ceremony itself which will take the form of a five star gala event attracting the attendance of award winners and their guests/delegations, top tier bilateral and multilateral trade and investment promotion facilitation and regulation institutions, senior government functionaries, major direct and portfolio investors, entrepreneurs, corporate manager and captains of commerce engaged in trade and investment between Africa and the UK as well as the international media.
Awardees will be selected from a wide field of nominees following an extensive, comprehensive and credible selection process using established selection criteria applied by our dedicated research consultants and ultimately our expert Awards Selection Jury through a quantitative scoring model derived from qualitative assessments of the set down criteria. Awardees will be given citations and plaques. Their participation in the conference and the awards conferment event that follows it will enable them meet, interact and forge mutually beneficial relationships with fellow participants in trade and investment activities between Africa and the UK. They will also benefit from extensive positive media publicity generated from the event, which would consequently enhance their respective corporate/individual reputations and the degree and intensity of goodwill and concrete support they receive from the various stakeholder segments in their activities.
