Export push for companies

[caption id="attachment_241615" align="aligncenter" width="630"] Officials who attended the Exporter Development Programme launch included Business Chamber operations manager Prince Matonsi, left, and the ECDC’s export promotion senior manager Phakamisa George, right. With them are Buzwebethu Textile Prints chief executive Nobuzwe Mabona and SOGA Organic’s admin and logistics manager Diana Hannah
Picture: Mark West[/caption]

Ten businesses will get expert assistance

Ten Eastern Cape companies have been selected to participate in a rigorous, high-level training and mentorship programme which should see them emerging as new entrants in the country’s exports industry.

The Exporter Development Programme will start next month and provide participants with a year of development, training and mentorship.