Zambia International Trade Fair Chairman Emmanuel Hachipuka says the trade fair that is starting on June 26, 2013 will depict what Zambian companies are able to produce.
Mr Hachipuka told ZANIS in an interview today that a trade fair is about a country show casing what it can produce and that this year’s trade fair will have more products and foods and less of literature.
“We have built solid buildings around the trade fair and the board and management have been working hard day and night to see to it that we have an exciting and life changing trade fair that people who will attend the show will appreciate. A trade fair is about showcasing the capacity of a country what it is able to produce,” he said.
Mr Hachipuka said 15 foreign countries have confirmed participation and 257 local exhibitors excluding vendors are going to take part in the show.
He said daily tickets will be sold at KR15 while school tickets will be sold at KR10.
“The show is starting on Wednesday and these are business days, the official opening is on Saturday. This trade fair will be different because Zambia is going to show the rest of the world its products,” he said.
Mr Hachipuka said exhibitors should pay for their stands early as well as commence working on them.
He said the trade fair management needed to work together with exhibitor to avoid the culture of last minute preparations.
“Next year we will be very strict with this and we will also require a 50 per cent down payment on participation fees. We have had incidences where companies book space and they pull out at last minute. This is not acceptable,” he said.
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already ni 4 days holiday? Yaba!
Kekekekeke good one, Trade Fair is 4-days holiday!! We used to look forward that, “nkaya ku tauni pa 4-days holiday”.
ala, kanshi nostradamus ni kamushi.
no wonder.
@Manure, us Bakamushi are much wiser than you call-boys from Kalingalinga, you basumbula. Us grew up under directives of chief. Look now at your leader Sata, number one kaponya from Mpatamato Luanshya and later took leadership of Katondo street.
Mr. Hampuka. Former Mbabala MP and friends to late Mazoka. Good boss to see that you are still serving the country in style. We will join you soon.
Hachipuka. these Tonga names?????
who is coming to open the show? Are we inviting comrade Bob Mugabe again, or he has also rejected the offer this time around?
@baEmma, I thought you are the one who will open the show. Why ask, or have you also rejected the offer?
wasn’t phenton musonda the chairman? What has happened to him.
Old names, Old names.. Please if you are going to get rid of Phesto Musonda, then bring another new name.. Even Trade Fair Chairmanship has to have an old name? Hacipuka doesn’t even know Ndola! Just ridiculous. New names, new names.. please.. new ideas.. By the way, how does one get to be Chairman of the Trade Fair?
I thought this Hachipuka was recalled to be on the new Zambia Railways Board.
May be he can be used as a consultant…