The sixth edition of the international fair of business, for SMEs and more partnership known as Salon PROMOTE, will take place from 11 to 19 February 2017 in Yaounde, the capital, where more than 1,700 exhibitors are expected, we did learn from the organizers.

In a statement of which APA obtained a copy on Saturday, the organizing committee headed by the international foundation Interprogress said it had booked 850 booths to Cameroonian exhibitors, 400 booths for companies and regional institutions, including the Economic Community of Central Africa

States (ECCAS) and continental, the African Union (AU) most other countries, like the United States, France, Italy or Turkey which have already confirmed their participation.

"We call on the Cameroonian and foreign companies that now need to decide on their participation and prepare for the maximum value of this investment," said Pierre Zumbach, the president of the International Foundation of Interprogress.

A call for the mobilization of businesses, especially in "Living as a PROMOTE, we speak, and the strength of speech, direct contact are powerful levers for success in business friendliness and trust”, he stressed.

For Trade Minister Luc Magloire Atangana Mbarga, also principal of the government, "PROMOTE 2017 follows the trajectory initiated in 2002, namely, the promotion of entrepreneurship, through a show dedicated to vocation subregional and over the editions, regional, now international.”

In this context, he stressed, "today more than ever, promoting entrepreneurship, stimulation of SMEs, better structure and proper management of the public-private partnership, participating, in the same way, improving the business climate."

In other words, it is a "comprehensive strategy to the national economy, an integrated economy in the region, included in the whole continent and connected to the world."

PROMOTE 2017 will mark its differentiation by an organization in thematic areas of the site with the aim to boost the rapprochement of actors in the same sector.