As arrangements for the hosting of the 10th edition of the flagship auto-fair in West Africa ‘The Lagos Motor Fair’ & Autoparts Expo Nigeria, continue, Visitors, Exhibitors and the general public that would be at the Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, venue of the event have been assured of bumper days of serious business and fun.
Announcing this, the Chairman of the Organising Committee for the show, Mr. Ifeanyichukwu Agwu, at a press briefing held to give Stakeholders up to date information of the event scheduled to hold from April 30-May 6, 2015, “the fair will be a landmark and a benchmark in auto show business in the entire West African sub-region;’ promising that “all including children are billed to have a rewarding experience.”
According to the Chairman of the Organising Committee who is also The Managing Director of BKG Exhibitions Limited, main organizers of the show,” almost all the major vehicle manufacturers and dealers in Nigeria are participating at the fair. Notable banks and Insurance companies; major Oil companies; manufacturers and dealers in auto-accessories have indicated interest and are seriously preparing to participate in the event.
“Each of the seven days that the fair will last is loaded with activities and events that will make this edition remarkably different and we intend to improve and add on this in subsequent editions,” Agwu said.
On parade shall be unique ranges of automobile products from notable companies from the Asian Continent dominated by Japanese, Chinese and South Korean auto- firms. Here, products from Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Kia, Nissan, etc, will be on display.
The European and American Continents will equally be there with products from the stables of Ford, Mack, Mercedes, Chevrolet, Volvo, BMW, Skoda etc.
From the home front, PAN Nigeria, National Trucks Manufacturers Limited [NTM], etc will showcase the latest in their ranges of products.
These products range from personal choice exotic cars, SUV’s, CUV’s, Jeeps, light and heavy duty haulage Trucks, and Buses of various capacities for corporate and mass transit businesses.
Feelers from most of the firms indicate that visitors to the various stands will enjoy lots of goodies. Some have packaged gift items, lucky dips and many other forms of entertainments, which according to sources will last all through the fair.
Strategically as we did in the last three years, we are laying a great emphasis on the Spare Parts sector in this edition. This is as a result of our guided intention to enhance the development of cottage industries in the spare parts sub-sector of the automotive business sector of the economy with the attendant multiplier effects on the economy of the nation.
It is also spurred by the need to ginger activities in the sub-sector to complement the setting up of Auto clusters as espoused by the new automotive policy in the country. Our target is to attract many reputable Original Equipment Manufacturers of Spare Parts from across the globe to participate in this edition as well as in subsequent ones. Over 100 confirmed Original Equipment Manufacturers from all over the world are already preparing to be at the show.
In conjunction with our foreign partners: SENEXPO International Fairs Inc of Turkey, we have reached out to many of such companies and happily the response has been tremendous and we are expecting close to 150 of them. Our intention in bringing them to Lagos which is the hub of automotive business in West Africa is to enable Nigerians and neighbouring West Africans engaged in auto spare business work out rewarding and lasting business relationships with the main companies engaged in the manufacture of auto spare parts.
From the Financial sector, auto financing and acquisition facilities and schemes shall be on display at the various stands of the firms from the sector. Those interested in enjoying the synergy existing between the automobile industry and the Insurance sector will get the best and latest from reputable Insurance Companies at the fair arena. Some of the automobile dealers will showcase their own in-house finance/acquisition schemes
Visitors that are interested in knowing and or updating their knowledge about Fleet Management would also get the best and the latest in that sector of the automotive business from experts in the field that would be on ground at the fair.
“It’s going to be a bumper harvest for the numerous visitors to the event; their socio-economic status notwithstanding. Every visitor would gain one thing or the other at the fair as we have ensured that almost the interests of all segments of the society are adequately catered for at the fair”. Children would not be left out. A special day has been dedicated to spoil them during the fair. The date is Sunday May 3rd, which equally serves as the kick off date for the 4th Autoparts Expo Nigeria.
He said, “We have carefully put in place a lot of crowd pulling activities all geared towards driving much traffic into the fair. These includes but not limited to performances by live bands and popular artistes; cultural and fashion displays, models/automobile parades and a road show.”