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REUTERS AFRICA NAMED AS AN OFFICIAL LEADING
MEDIA SPONSOR OF 2007 U.S.-AFRICA BUSINESS SUMMIT
NOVEMBER 14-16 IN CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
Award-Winning Global Information Website to Support 6th Biennial Summit Which Will Focus on Increasing U.S. Investment in Africa
Industry Experts Predict that Summit will Bring Largest, Simultaneous Delegation of U.S. Business Leaders to Africa in History
Washington, D.C. (October 8, 2007)—Reuters Africa, Reuters’ award-winning website dedicated to pan-African news and financial data, has been named an official leading media sponsor of The Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) U.S.-Africa Business Summit being held November 14-16, 2007 at The Cape Town Convention Centre in Cape Town, South Africa, it was announced today.
Reuters Africa joins All Africa Global Media, Institutional Investor, African Business, New African, Africa Investor, and Times Publications as a media sponsor of the Summit.
Hosted every two years, this is CCA’s sixth Summit, but the first-ever to be held in Africa. More than 1,300 participants are expected to attend.
Reuters, the global information company, provides indispensable information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. Through Reuters Africa, reuters.com and other digital properties, Reuters now also supplies its trusted content direct to individuals across the African continent and around the world.
“Reuters Africa is proud to be an official media sponsor of the 2007 U.S.-Africa Business Summit and honored to be a part of the first-ever hosted in Africa,” said
Tim Faircliff, Reuters General Manager for Consumer Media, Europe/ Middle East/ Africa. “We look forward to a very productive partnership.”
Appropriately titled “Africa: Entering the Door to Opportunities,” the Summit will provide a forum for some of the world’s top global business leaders to discuss trade and investment opportunities in Africa, best practices, and how best to increase trade and investment in ways that will help engender sustainable growth on the continent.
“Reuters Africa’s support of the Summit further confirms their commitment to raising awareness around the business partnerships and ventures, economic growth, and the undeniable trade and investment interest developed and emerging markets continue to express in Africa,” said CCA President Stephen Hayes. “We are pleased to welcome Reuters, one of the most trusted media outlets in the world, as a sponsor of the Summit.”
The 2007 Summit will feature business trade missions led by a diverse pool of U.S. organizations, to nearly 30 African nations. In an unprecedented offering, Summit delegates will have an opportunity to explore business prospects in an additional African country, immediately following the Summit in Cape Town.
The U.S.-Africa Business Summit will include sector-specific plenary sessions, workshops, business networking opportunities, and a two-day trade expo where businesses will showcase their products, services, and capabilities to potential buyers and customers throughout Africa. Sessions will focus on key sectors including, infrastructure development, mining, agribusiness, telecommunications, energy, transportation, and sports and tourism among numerous others.
To date, corporations Chevron, Merck, ExxonMobil, Boeing, 3M, Marathon Oil, South African Airways, Pan African Capital Group, Westinghouse, Buchanan Renewable Energies, Colgate-Palmolive Company, Cargill, General Motors, Chrysler, Hewlett-Packard, The Coca-Cola Company, Development Bank of Southern Africa, Lazare Kaplan International, Baker Hostetler, Ethiopian Airlines, and HRDI; as well as media outlets All Africa Global Media, New African, African Business, Africa Investor, Corporate Africa, and Institutional Investor, have come together as sponsors of the upcoming Summit.
CCA’s U.S.-Africa Business Summits have a stellar track record of attendees and high-powered workshop and plenary sessions. Former World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, President George W. Bush, South Africa President Thabo Mbeki, and many other African Heads of State have participated in past Summits.
To find out more about the upcoming Summit visit africacncl.org.
CCA, established in 1993, is a nonpartisan 501 (c) (3) membership organization of nearly 200 U.S. companies dedicated to strengthening the commercial relationship between the U.S. and Africa. CCA members represent nearly 85 percent of total U.S. private sector investments in Africa. The organization is dedicated to bringing together potential business partners and to showcase business opportunities on the continent.
About Reuters:
Reuters (www.reuters.com), the global information company, provides indispensable information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. Through reuters.com and other digital properties, Reuters now also supplies its trusted content direct to individuals. Reuters drives decision making across the globe based on a reputation for speed, accuracy and independence. Reuters has 16,900 staff in 94 countries, including 2,400 editorial staff in 196 bureaus serving 131 countries. In 2006, Reuters revenues were £2.6 billion.
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