Up to 300 booths run by vendors drawn from local small and medium-sized enterprises are likely to be set up at the National Exhibition Centre, Sophia to host the one-off Business Exposition 2015.
At a launching ceremony held at Sophia on Wednesday it was disclosed that the November 23-25 event was being staged in lieu of the customary larger GuyExpo event which will be restored in 2016 for the country’s 50th Independence Anniversary celebrations.
Business Minister Dominic Gaskin said the event was expected to provide an opportunity for small vendors to display locally made products to what, over the years, has been a sizeable market comprising Guyanese attending the event and enthusiastically patronizing the vendors. Asked whether the focus on locally produced goods was intended to discourage the large army of vendors who customarily use the occasion of GuyExpo to