Trade Mission to Libya (April 2012)

Trade Mission to Libya (April 2012)

We are organising a small multi-sector trade mission to Libya from 23 - 26 April 2012. The mission will be in line with OIL & GAS LIBYA 2012 exhibition in Tripoli, to allow mission participants to attend the exhibition as well. There will be meetings with officials, key personals, Libyan private companies etc.

I will lead the mission which will visit Tripoli.

All companies, firms and organisations are invited to take part of the mission which is open to all. If you are interest, or anyone you might know, to participate or require further details please contact us at: email info@soclibya.com, Telephone: +44 208 9878450 or Mobile: +44 777 4013043

Looking forward to hearing from you

Thank you

Tarek Alwan

A new Business Group on LinkedIn

We have set up a new business group on Linkedin especially to serve the great interest and demand from British and Libyan businesses to connect. We called Anglo Libya Business Group (ALBG)

In the last few years we have witnessed a great deal of British companies and organisations wishing to enter the Libyan market and we have successfully managed to get some of them into the country and we are still working on other projects.

The group is open for all to join and most importantly to contribute.

So please have a look and if you are interested, please do join.

See you there

LIBYA: A MARKET CONTENDER EVENT

AS you may know that Libya is a country full of potential opportunities in all sectors for international companies and especially UK businesses the sectors such as oil and gas, tourism, construction, educational etc, and the UK visible exports to Libya totalled £280m in last year which was about 21% from the year before of 2007.

So for the reasons above and many more, London Chamber of Commerce organised the event which took place Tuesday 17th Nov 2009 and was held at the chamber’s head office in London from 3.30pm till 7pm in which I was one of the attendees.

It was a good chance to networking and to meet up with some people who I already know and more new and talk about Libya and the Libyan market in general and I have to say that all speakers mentioned how nice, kind and polite there and more importantly how professional and skilful they are in terms of doing business and negotiate.

Of course there was a lot of talk about how difficult the Libyan market can be, starting from obtaining visas to finalising deals and agreements.

The programme of the event was as follows:-

3.30PM REGISTRATION AND TEA

3.50PM CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS
Michael Thomas
Director General
Middle East Association

4.00PM DOING BUSINESS IN LIBYA
Paul Austin
Chairman
British Business Group, Tripoli

4.20PM POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Adela Gooch
Programme Director, Key States
Wilton Park

4.40PM COMMERCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
John Parr
Deputy Director General
Libyan - British Business Council


4.50PM SECTOR FOCUS: CONSTRUCTION
Dominic James
Director, Middle East and Africa
British Expertise

5.10PM CASE STUDY: APOLLO INSULATION
Colin Hawkes
Director
Apollo Insulation

5.25PM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

5.40PM CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS

5.50PM DRINKS AND NETWORKING

7.00PM CLOSE