{"id":552,"date":"2011-08-01T06:51:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T06:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-s-14th-trade-fair-needs-more-customer-care\/"},"modified":"2011-08-01T06:48:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T06:48:32","slug":"rwanda-s-14th-trade-fair-needs-more-customer-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-s-14th-trade-fair-needs-more-customer-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda\u2019s 14th Trade Fair needs more customer care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Andrew Kareba<\/p>\n<p>{{After the official opening of Rwanda\u2019s 14th International Trade show by Prime Minister Bernald Makuza, the show is on its fifth day but some exhibitors feature difficulties.}}<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe exhibition is on a higher gear; lovely people with hospitality, clean city and cooperative Private Sector Federation\u201d said John Mwesigye a marketing Manager of Movit Products Ltd from Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Trade Fair is increasing brand awareness and market sharing where exhibitors are selling on a higher rate\u201d, said Mwesigye.<\/p>\n<p>Customer care principles, clearing process and agents at the border, unhurried assistance by Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA), loud music, are some of the challenges the Ugandan exhibitor Mwesigye articulates.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis. 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Bideri is a Managing Director of \u201cSoap of Karongi\u2019 known as King of Soap finds the 14th trade fair as the best in East African Community due to the organization and the number of exhibitors but requests exhibitors\u2019 to provide warm customer care services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKing of Soap is mostly known in Karongi, and we extremely value the Private Sector Federation\u2019s contribution in marketing local products\u201d though Lack of capital and advertisement are some of the challenges we face\u201d  says Bideri.<\/p>\n<p>According to the trade show coordinator, Mr. Ephraim Karangwa , the show was well organized and mostly 99 percent of exhibitors drew closer at the first day of the trade show.<\/p>\n<p>Dorothy Mutesi is Miss NUR 2010, who visited the trade fair ground at Gikondo and  says: \u201cThe Trade show is amazing but some products are luxurious according to previous show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda International 14th Trade Fair is one of major annual events organized by Private Sector Federation (PSF), in conjunction with the Ministry of Trade and Industry where 486 exhibitors participated and 141 are foreigners from various countries, providing unique sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Andrew Kareba {{After the official opening of Rwanda\u2019s 14th International Trade show by Prime Minister Bernald Makuza, the show is on its fifth day but some exhibitors feature difficulties.}} \u201cThe exhibition is on a higher gear; lovely people with hospitality, clean city and cooperative Private Sector Federation\u201d said John Mwesigye a marketing Manager of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"byline":[158],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","byline-b_igi_adm1n"],"bylines":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":1}],"contributors":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":1}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}