MSME, COWE plan expo to explore business opportunities

Our Bureau Updated - November 19, 2012 at 11:05 PM.

The Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises – Development Institute (MSME), and the Confederation of Women Entrepreneurs (COWE), will jointly organise an exhibition-cum-national vendor development programme here during November 24-25.

The even will be held at the exhibition-cum-marketing development business park at the National Small Industries Corporation, Kamalanagar.

The objective of this programme is to identify and explore the business opportunities, build business linkages to fulfil the heightened quest for cost efficiencies, promote networking among industrialists, traders, large, medium enterprises , a press release said.

Soudhamini P, President of COWE, said women industrialists, manufacturers, service providers, consultants, facilitators and distributors would showcase their products.

The Government of India is providing market support to the MSME sector by encouraging them to become vendors of Railways, defence, public sector undertaking, and Government departments.

At the vendor development programme, the participants include Singareni Collieries , NTPC, HMT, Nuclear Fuel Complex, Hindustan Lever, APSRTC, BHEL, South Central Railway and Defence Labs .

The programme includes exhibition of the products, services, buyers-sellers meet, the release said.

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Published on November 19, 2012 17:35