africon named official foreign representative for the BVMW

Since October 2018 africon GmbH is the official foreign representative for the BVMW “Bundesverband der Mittelständischen Wirtschaft” (German Association for the SMEs) for the countries of Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia. The BVMW has 18.000 direct company members in Germany and 700.000 indirect contacts within Germany. At the moment the BVMW is strengthening their presence in Africa together with the help of their foreign representatives and a new alliance they formed called the “Mittelstands Allianz für Afrika” (The SME Alliance for Africa).

The SME Alliance for Africa will cover all industrial sectors and will be supporting the German-African business network in order to form sustainable development of their effective economic cooperation. This Alliance has the target to act as a service provider for the German government and German companies in realising projects locally in Africa.
africon GmbH already ventured into first discussion with local African associations that are very interested in partnering with BVMW to form effective partnerships to connect their members with the members of BVMW.

It seems “The SME Alliance for Africa” as well as the local business associations are both eager to present Africa as a continent full of potential business opportunities and business partners. And africon is more than happy to be the matchmaking party in between and let our broad African network come into play.

africon was selected as a knowledge partner for EMWA (Equipment & Manufacturing West Africa) which [...]

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