Africa-Press – Angola. The company Sanlam Angola Seguros was distinguished on Friday with the Grand Prize of the 12th International Fair of Benguela (FIB 2023), an event in which 368 companies participated, an increase of 27 percent compared to 2022.
Best participation in the 12th edition of the FIB, Sanlam Angola Seguros is a member of the Sanlam Group, headquartered in South Africa, a company with 105 years of diversified financial services and which operates in the insurance market in 33 countries in Africa and in other parts of the world. world.
To snatch the most coveted prize at the FIB 2023, Sanlam, which dethroned the Carrinho Group, winner of the last edition, bet on two conferences under the theme: “Means of transport and fundamental infrastructure in the flow of production, transformation, logistics , internal consumption, export and the movement of people.”
The conferences, in collaboration with the main public and private players, aim to promote and facilitate the interaction of businessmen, with the sectors of agriculture, infrastructure, industry and the Lobito Corridor, the main theme of this event, as investment areas.
At the FIB exhibitors awards gala, honored by the provincial governor of Benguela, Luís Manuel da Fonseca Nunes, accompanied by their counterparts from Huíla and Bié, respectively, Nuno Mahapi Dala and Pereira Alfredo, Grupo Carrinho won the prize for best participation in the Food and Beverage Industry category.
At the ceremony, which precedes the closing of the event, this Saturday, the company Omatapalo, in the field of transformation industry and public works, was also awarded, while Standard Bank Angola was distinguished as the best in banking.
Fidelidade Seguros also stood out with the best participation in insurance, the company Milongos, best representation in health and well-being, Maqman, best in machinery and equipment, Porto do Lobito, best in transport and logistics, and Agrinsul, best in entrepreneurship and innovation.
The FIB jury also awarded prizes to the Adérito Areias Group in the category of best participation in the agriculture and fisheries sector, to Unitel, best representation in information and communication technologies, as well as to Sistec, as best in electronics, security and energy .
This award ceremony for the 12th edition of the Benguela International Fair, which took place at the National Museum of Archaeology, in the city of Benguela, also distinguished Grupo Carrinho, Sanlam Angola Seguros, Unitel and the Provincial Government with honorable mentions. from Benguela.
Arena Events highlights growth
On the occasion, the president of the Eventos Arena group, Bruno Albernaz, made a positive assessment of this 12th edition of the FIB, taking into account the growth in terms of exhibitor participation of around 27 percent compared to the previous year.
That is why Bruno Albernaz highlighted the very strong dynamics of the companies, most of them from the agriculture and livestock sectors, food industry, beverages, fisheries, banking, agricultural machinery, telecommunications, insurance, participating in the event.
There is, as I said, an inversion in what is the profile of the exhibitor, which means a path towards diversification, with many more support and service companies for the agribusiness sector, products made in Angola, banking and insurance.
For the official, the FIB is, therefore, a very strong example of the dynamism of all businessmen in believing in the province of Benguela and in the motto according to which together on the path of development.
“Benguela, with ten municipalities, getting stronger and showing Angola and the world that it is the right place to invest and the FIB is a showcase of what is done and what can be done better”, he stressed.
With regard to the Lobito Corridor, which is the main motto of this edition, the Events Arena PCA believes it to be a great awakening of the conscience of national and international businessmen.
“We are very much looking forward to it being that Corridor that can, across the board, support all companies not only in the logistics sector, but all producers so that they can deliver their products to other countries”, he stressed.
The expectation is that the Lobito Corridor will become a logistics platform at the service of severa For the twelfth edition of the Benguela International Fair (FIB), the National Institute of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (INAPEM) presents a workshop for technical guidance to entrepreneurs.
Its Executive Director, Osvaldo Rasgado, said that this workshop serves to show businessmen the path to follow and how to guide themselves to develop their businesses.
“The institution also has a formalization process for the candidate to legalize his business activity, so that he can then take decisions, as a manager”, he explained.
He informed that, on the last day of the FIB, INAPEM will present two platforms to elucidate entrepreneurs, as well as those who want to start their businesses.
“The first platform is related to formalities for the entrepreneur to have access to financing. There, they will be shown the tools to achieve this goal”, he said.
The second has to do with the certification of companies, a new digitized model, with a simplified process, so that they can have access to the document that enables them to operate within the current regulations.
Some entrepreneurs of micro and small companies have difficulties in presenting their business projects to obtain financing, being forced to redo the documentation.
On this aspect, he informed that INAPEM has a network of service administrators in various specialties, such as in the legal, projects and accounting areas, which can help to overcome this problem.
“It is a channel that entrepreneurs can access so that these professionals can satisfy their needs”, he stressed.
Asked about the institution’s scope of action at provincial level, he said it is represented in the ten municipalities.
For example, he said that, on one of these days, his team went to Catumbela’s administrator, Cátia Teixeira, for courtesy greetings and ended up identifying a need in the municipality that is related to the training of young people, within the scope of fight against poverty, and managed to align the initiative in ways to solve this problem.
“Our action is provincial, also looking at the industrial development poles and in everything where there is a need for INAPEM intervention, in terms of support for micro, small and medium-sized companies”, he added. TC/CRB l countries, which, in the interlocutor’s view, is an important step that businessmen must follow and be very attentive to.
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