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Impacta is an education group which has been acting in the IT certification and the IT training fields for more than 20 years. The company’s Founder and CEO, Célio Antunes de Souza, gives an overview of Impacta and discusses new projects.
Amelework Ghidey, Managing Director of Technostyle
Being in the business for the last 15 years, Technostyle has managed to indentify its niche market and moved itself up the ladder to become the leader in the import and supply of furniture in Ethiopia. The company is also involved in interior design, offering unique turnkey interior solutions. By relying on the young returnees educated abroad, Technostyle aims to increase their productivity by 300% in the next five years. While currently importing from more than 15 international companies (Turkey, Italy, Malaysia, China, Singapore, Indonesia and America), Technostyle now wants to focus on local manufacturing by using 60% local materials from Ethiopia.
System Marketing is a company with 15 years of experience operating in qualification and enrichment of database, consulting and TDQM (Total Data Quality Management). Guilherme Rocha presents the company and gives an overview of the BI and data management sector in Brazil.
Zenawi Mesfin, General Manager of Intercontinental Addis Hotel
Bringing the US hotel industry experience into Ethiopia, Mr Mesfin left a significant footprint in transforming Intercontinental Addis Hotel into a top quality 5 star hotel, which is currently leading the hotel industry in Addis Ababa.
Marcelo Marangon from Asa Consulting, a company specialized in providing consultancy services in executive aviation, explains how the company can assist and help international private companies to sell their aircraft.
Asa Consulting is a company specialized in offering consultancy services in the aviation sector. Guilherme Machado, gives an overview of the sector in Brazil and presents the company, mentioning plans, challenges, investment opportunities, etc.
The President of Alcatel Brazil Mobile Phones gives an overview of the mobile sector in Brazil and talks about Alcatel’s strategy and challenges in the country. Mr. Machado also shares his vision for the future of the company.
Dr. Arega Yirdaw, CEO of MIDROC Ethiopia Technology Group
MIDROC Ethiopia Technology Group reached more than 5 billion Birr of sales in 2013 (as oppossed to 3.5 billion Birr three years ago) and currently employs about 7,000 workers. The main factor for the group’s success is the sale of gold…
Michael Mamo, Managing Director of Addis Exporter
“There are more investments in farming and more coffee exporters are actually getting into the coffee trade in Ethiopia. However 2014 is going to be a very challenging year because the international market price has dropped dramatically and our local market situation remains difficult. The local market price is often higher than the international and for farmers, if they don’t make money, they aren’t going to produce coffee,” explains Mr Mamo.
Aboma Taye, Managing Director of Baraton Trade Plc
Baraton Trade started 6 years ago with a capital of about 500,000 US dollars and has grown by at least 10 times ever since into one of the leading suppliers of drilling machines for mostly infrastructure projects in Ethiopia, representing 6 foreign brands such as Japanese Furukawa and Airman. The aim now is to set up a solid base for these brands in the whole of East Africa.
