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Textile Buyers Forum 2023

Online Textile Buyers Forum 2023

East Africa has been developing into an additional focus for textile and garment manufacturing in East Asia for several years. Due to its low labour costs, flexible working hours and competitive labour-related tax structure, this region is the destination of choice for large, labour-intensive sectors, including textile and fashion production.

Together with the AFRICA SOURCING AND FASHION WEEK (ASFW) and GIZ, we would like to invite you to this important online forum where the most important producing countries in East Africa present themselves.

Representatives of the free trade zones and governments from Mauritius, Madagascar, Kenya and Ethiopia will present their countries. textile and fashion production.

• Date: 21 June
• Time: 9:00 am

Agenda:

09.00 Uhr | Opening Remarks
Skander Negasi, Organizer of 9th AFRICA SOURCING AND FASHION WEEK – ASFW and President of East Africa Textile and Apparel Center

Susanne Pass, Managing Director of Dialog Textil Bekleidung e.V. (DTB), Germany

09.15 Uhr | Outlook of Economy in East Africa

Mr. Carsten, Director East Africa German Trade and Invest – GTAI

09.35 Uhr | Introduction MAURITIUS

Mr. Jerome Couve, CEO of Tropic Knits Ltd and Chairperson of the Textile and Apparel Committee of MEXA

10.05 | Introduction MADAGASCAR

Mr. Ilann Hiridjee, General Manager, Actual Textiles

Mr. ShumaN Mahbub, General Manager, Best Brand Apparels

Ms. Jessie Andriamampianina, Independent

10.35 Uhr | Introduction KENYA

Mr. Hussein Adan Mohamed, Acting CEO Export Processing Zones Authority – EPZA

Mr. Heman Boodia, Managing Director, Mahalakshmi EPZ ltd

11.05 Uhr | Introduction ETHIOPIA

Mr. Hibret Lemma, CEO, Hawassa Industrial Park

11.30 Uhr | Q&A session

Mr. Hibret Lemma, CEO, Hawassa Industrial Park

12.00 Uhr | Closing Remarks

Ms. Anna Waldmann, Program Head Sustainable Industrial Clusters, Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

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