The International East-West Economic Corridor (EWEC) Trade and Tourism Fair 2018 is taking place at Da Nang’s International Exhibition Fair Centre at 9 Cach Mang Thang Tam until 8 August.

Some businesses introducing their products to customers at the conference

This year’s fair features a total of 350 stands from around 200 businesses and organisations from 24 localities nationwide and such foreign countries as Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and Indonesia.

The stands offer a wide range of tourism, trade and investment products, including electrical and electronic devices, IT, wooden products and furniture, handicrafts, textiles and garments, leather goods and footwear, tourism services, and cuisine.

The fair offers participating businesses a good opportunity to introduce their products to customers, learn from experience of other businesses, and seek their partners, and expand their consumption markets.

As part of the ongoing fair, a conference on promoting demand-supply connection took place at the same venue last Friday.

The conference aimed to strengthen the economic cooperation between localities in EWEC countries and their international partners, as well as to promote mutual exchange activities in trade, tourism, and investment.

This is the 3^rd time the Phu Yen Province-based Ha Trung Production, Processing and Commerce Company has participated in this international fair.

The company’s Deputy Director, Ms Nguyen Thi Ha, said her company has entered into cooperative agreements with many businesses in the central region through such fairs. Therefore, numerous products of her company are on available at supermarkets and retail stores nationwide, including the Dac San 3 Mien and Thien Phu stores.

She added her company took part in many such conferences every year in a bid to introduce her products to customers and seek more reliable partners.

“This year, my company will work with the Da Nang-based Davina Hi-tech Agriculture Corporation to open a branch to officially introduce our products to customers in Da Nang and elsewhere in the central region”, she noted.

Mr Nguyen Hoai Linh, Director of the Hung Phat Tai Production, Trading and Service Company in Ninh Thuan Province, highlighted the significance of the conference in helping small and medium-sized enterprises seek their partners and boost the consumption of their locally-produced goods.

Ms Nguyen Thi Thu Hang, Deputy Director of the A Chau Architecture and Trading Company, remarked after having participated in such conference for 4 times, her company has signed cooperative contracts with such large companies as the Da Nang branch of the Heineken Vietnam Brewery, and the Quang Nam branch of Dai Quang Prime Company.

In the morning of last Friday, her company entered into an agreement on providing 12,000 tonnes products, worth around 100 billion VND, to the Shin Heung Vina Company Limited per year.

According to representatives from some participating businesses, many of domestic businesses are small-scale, so they are not able to ensure sufficient supplies of high-quality organic products for their partners.

Ms Ha suggested that the organisers of such conference should invite owners of chains of stores, hotels and supermarkets to the fair in order to help participating businesses to boost the consumption of their products.