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Friday, July 18, 2025

Booths almost sold out for TIC 2014

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Most of the 220 booths for the 2014 Trade and In­vest­ment Con­ven­tion (TIC) have al­ready been sold, Ramesh Ramdeen, CEO of the T&T Man­u­fac­tur­ers' As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) said."At this point in time 175 booths have gone, so we just have 40 to 45 booths left. All the 11 pavil­ions would have gone at this point time. We have the space for 45 more booths."For those peo­ple who want to ad­ver­tise in the show, we have an op­por­tu­ni­ty. We have lim­it­ed space for ban­ners to be hung.

"We have a live tele­vi­sion sys­tem so every­thing that hap­pens will be beamed live through­out the show," he told the T&T Guardian.TIC 2014 takes place from Ju­ly 2 to 5, at the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence, Ma­coya. The event is re­turn­ing to that venue for the first time since 2009 be­cause it is more ac­ces­si­ble and booths have al­most dou­bled, Ramdeen said.

"Pre­vi­ous­ly it was at the Hy­att in Port-of-Spain but this year we de­cid­ed it would be best to take the show back to the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence. We polled our man­u­fac­tur­ers and we were told the lo­gis­tics at the Hy­att Ho­tel was dif­fi­cult," he said.Ramdeen said the TTMA wants to take things to a dif­fer­ent lev­el this year."We are try­ing to try­ing to plateau off and try­ing to cre­ate new op­por­tu­ni­ties to take it to an­oth­er lev­el. The world has gone in par­tic­u­lar di­rec­tion of glob­al­i­sa­tion and free trade.

"It is for this rea­son we are dif­fer­ent from trade shows in the re­gion. We want to see the com­pe­ti­tion and what they have. We want to see what the in­ter­na­tion­al ex­hibitors have to of­fer," he said.He said prod­ucts from man­u­fac­tur­ers in T&T are as com­pet­i­tive as any­where in the world.

"We can go out there and beat the com­pe­ti­tion and em­brace it. We have an open pol­i­cy. We feel the Caribbean mar­ket has al­lowed us to go to where we are but we need to go be­yond that. We are bring­ing in­ter­na­tion­al buy­ers from North Amer­i­ca, Eu­rope and oth­er ar­eas in the world," he said.TTMA pres­i­dent Nicholas Lok Jack said TIC is just one way the as­so­ci­a­tion as­sists lo­cal man­u­fac­tur­ers.

"We al­so do ca­pac­i­ty build­ing. We are tak­ing trade mis­sions over­seas. It is just one of the many prod­ucts that ex­pos­es our man­u­fac­tur­ers to in­ter­na­tion­al­i­sa­tion. "That is re­al­ly the view of this board. It is not about pro­tec­tion­ism but in­ter­na­tion­al­i­sa­tion. How do we cre­ate op­por­tu­ni­ty? We have to look for niche mar­kets," he said.


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