Malta-based businesses creating direct links with South African entrepreneurs through Malta BNI

South African businesspersons are seeking to establish direct business contacts with Malta-based entrepreneurs who are envisaging to expand into foreign markets. For this purpose, a joint MaltaSouth Africa meeting has now been planned for Thursday, 19 November at 8am and held via zoom.

Over 30 entrepreneurs from Gauteng, the financial and economic hub of South

Africa will be joining this two-hour session. Situated to the west of Johannesburg, Gauteng is the gateway to doing business in the rest of Africa. Moreover this district contributes 33% to the national South African economy and a remarkable 10% to the GDP of the entire African continent.

These entrepreneurs form part of BNI Triple 1 and have just celebrated their third year as a BNI chapter. The chapter president, Paul Malherbe, said: “We’ve heard that Malta BNI has embarked on a very pro-active internationalisation programme making business contacts with companies in Italy, France, Denmark, Cyprus, and as far away as India and Malaysia, and we did not want to miss out in seeking possible business opportunities with operators in the Maltese market. We also understand that a number of non-EU entrepreneurs consider Malta as a great entry point to the huge European market and therefore we would like to explore such possibilities of mutual benefit with Malta BNI members as well as other visitors who would like to join this joint meeting between South African and Maltese entrepreneurs.”

Malta BNI national director David Bullock said: “During 2020, Malta BNI has re-invented itself and in addition to generating more business for and among its members in Malta, it has embarked on a dynamic programme to explore and create meaningful commercial relationships with various types of businesses abroad.

While in pre-COVID times, a company had to allocate a significant amount of time and money to invest in business development, especially overseas, in recent months Malta BNI, through a worldwide network of more than 9,750 chapters, has been offering such contacts on a golden platter and practically for free. We are firm believers in the concept of Givers’ Gain. This is why in 34 years the BNI network grew from just 10 businessmen to more than 220,000 members across the globe.”

Conducted in English, the meeting will run from 8 till 10.30am. Along with members, visitors joining the meeting will have the opportunity to present themselves, their products or services, their needs and markets of interest.

This is the sixth international joint meeting being held online since last July by Malta BNI with BNI members from all over the world, interested in meeting Malta-based chapters and members and exploring possibilities of business cooperation and growth.

As an international business referral organisation, BNI today is established in more than 70 countries across the world. Non-BNI businesses from Malta are being invited to join this virtual joint chapter meeting so that they too can experience some of the great potential that BNI’s international dimension can offer, especially in these challenging times.

One can register by Wednesday, 18 November at 12noon on: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGw0o3owL4b1yFZzs9xdGKZFU8WqeSFyUY3gE-4dM-A1HxQ/viewform For more information about this event, send an email to: Viviana Premazzi at viviana@gmdmalta.com, David Bullock at david.malta.bni@gmail.com or Carmel Bonello at carmelbonello2020@outlook.com