GREEEN 36 hosts 1000 retailers for LRF summit

In a bid to provide support system and broad-based opportunities for retail shop operators in Lagos, Green 36 Concerts has concluded plans to hold its 2nd annual Lagos Retail Festival (LRF) holding on the 19^th to 20^th, April, 2019 at Welcome Hotel, Lagos.

The event will bring together 1000 retail shop owners, 500+exhibitors, vendors, 50 speakers.

The Director Green 36, Dapo Ajeniya said the value of retail in the Nigerian market is in excess of $150 billion annually. You will agree your business could be getting a bigger chunk of the pie annually.

He noted that the Lagos Retail Festival provides the best opportunity to gain new customers while deepening the relationship with existing ones. The festival is set an atmosphere of trading, learning and partying. The best performers on the side of the coast will be here, as well as industry leaders sharing innovations and future trends in retail.

He stated further that the festival is billed to welcome more than 1,000 delegates from across Nigeria and Africa, adding that the time to grow your business further is now and if you are looking to fly your brand globally, then LRF is the runway to the world.

The director maintained that the festival would cover operators and players in the telecom, ICT, automobile, electronics, furniture, food processors, and creative industry, would impacts significantly not only to Lagos GDP but Nigeria also.

The business enthusiast further revealed that the festival is in partnership with Nigerian- British Chamber of Commerce, Lagos state Ministry of Commerce, Enterprise Development Centre, MAN, National Association is Small and Medium Enterprises, microfinance banks among others, adding that policymakers and players in the sector would interface at the conference and SMEs clinics sessions to chat new course for the operators.

He added that a stand (space) for small-scale retailers goes for N20,000, for premium and corporate organisations, it goes for N100,000 to N200,000, while foreign exhibitors will pay US$1000 which covers accommodation, airport shuttles, and conference pass.