GraceKennedy among foreign buyers lining up for GUYTIE

participants are still primarily from the region the most recent list includes companies from the Republic of Korea as well as additional representation from Canada and the UK.

With several ‘buyers’ having expressed an interest in rice and other agricultural produce as well as timber and wood products next week’s inaugural GUYTIE event is being seen here as perhaps the sternest test yet of Guyana’s ability to meet both the quantitative and qualitative demands necessary to create and sustain a profitable international market. While the authorities here have stopped short of writing off the long-standing GuyExpo as a failure in terms of its track record in cementing ties between local sellers and overseas buyers it has sought, it says, to make organizational adjustments to the GUYTIE event in order to realize more meaningful interface between local sellers and buyers expected here for next week’s four-day event.

With next week’s GUYTIE event taking place against the backdrop of the heightened international attention which Guyana continues to attract in the wake of disclosure of the country’s significant oil resources, some companies due here for the event have simply expressed a broad interest in “investment opportunities” which, presumably, they expect to find in the oil and gas related sector.

GUYTIE, the organizers have said, aim to promote export-ready firms in export markets and local exhibitors in next week’s event will include businesses in both the manufacturing and services sectors including agro-processing, arts and craft, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, construction, food & beverages, food processing, forestry & wood products, information & communications, print & publishing, packaging, tourism and services.