"Thai Ministry of Commerce is to promote Thailand's potential as a leader in the food, logistics and alternative energy sectors by organizing the "Thai-European forum 2009" (TEF 2009), a business forum for Thai and European businesspersons, for the first time in Thailand on September 17-18, 2009 at Muang Thong Thani.
Porntiva Nakasai, minister of commerce,revealed that the Ministry is organizing the Thai-European Forum 2009 to boost and recover Thailand's export sector as quickly as possible. The European Union (EU) is a huge market consisting of 27-member states and is still in the process of adding new members. The European Commission expects that the European economy will fully recover by 2011. Today, Thailand's exports to the EU rank second.
"The Ministry of Commerce realizes the importance of this market,"said Porntiva. "We will add value to our trade and in vestment, encourage business representatives from Thailand and Europe to match and exchange their ideas, reinforce the confidence of investors, and boost the positive image of Thailand among overseas investors. The Thai-European Forum 2209 will serve these aims."
The event will be a business forum for Thailand and more than 20 European countries. It will be the first time for such a public private sector forum in Thailand that will foster consultation and exchange of ideas on issues of trade and investment. At the same time, it will act as a stage to promote Thailand's potential in food safety, as a logistics hub of ASEAN and as a place welcoming alternative energy investment. On September 18, several foreign academics and business entrepreneurs will deliver lectures, and representatives from EU regulations and how to approach the EU's new markets.
"We expect over 800 persons from the private sector, Thai entreprenerus, European business persons and academics of many countries in the EU and EFTA to join the event resulting in increased business negotiation between the two regions. Participants can gain knowledge and an understanding of the regulations in preparation forfurther business. It can also activate and increase the export volume from Thailand to Europe," Porntiva said.
The event will feature trade and investment exhinitions from 18 embassies, products and information from leading European companies, successful Thai-European ventrues, and products from the various regions of Thailand exported overseas under the strategic project, "Local to Global", to export domestic products from the Thai private sector.
Please reserve your seat at: www.thai-european.com or Tel. 02-933-0120 tollfree. See you on September 17-18, 2009 at Royal Jubilee Challenger, Impact Muang Thong Thani.
Ministry of Commerce www.moc.go.th
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