BKG Exhibitions, organisers of the annual Lagos Motor Fair and Auto Expo in Nigeria has promised exhibitors and visitors to the 9th edition of the fair a rewarding and bumper show.

Announcing this in Lagos, the chairman of the organising committee, Mr. Ifeanyichukwu Agwu, said “the fair will be a landmark and a benchmark in auto show business in the entire West African sub-region.”

According to him almost all the major vehicle manufactures and dealers in Nigeria will be participating at the fair, as well as banks and insurance companies. Other participants who have booked for the international fair include major oil companies, manufacturers and dealers in auto-accessories, numerous number of Chinese auto manufacture who will be visiting to seek new partners in Nigeria. The fair is scheduled to hold from May 1 to 7 2014.

“Each of the seven days that the fair will last is loaded with activities and events that will make this edition remarkably different and we intend to improve and add on this in subsequent editions,” Mr. Agwu, revealed further. Expected to be on parade during the show are unique ranges of automobile products from notable companies from  European, American ans Asian continents dominated by Japanese, Chinese and South Korean US, Germany, France, United Kingdom etc.

From the home front, PAN Nigeria, National Trucks Manufacturers Limited [NTM], etc will showcase the latest in their ranges of products.

These products range from personal choice exotic cars, SUV’s, CUV’s, Jeeps, light and heavy duty haulage Trucks, and Buses of various capacities for corporate and mass transit businesses.Feelers from most of the firms indicate that visitors to the various stands will enjoy lots of goodies. Some have packaged gift items, lucky dips and many other forms of entertainments, which according to sources will last all through the fair.

Strategically as we did in the last two years, we are laying a great emphasis on the Spare Parts sector in this edition. This is as a result of our guided intention to enhance the development of cottage industries in the spare parts sub-sector of the automotive business sector of the economy with the attendant multiplier effects on the economy of the nation.

It is also spurred by the need to ginger activities in the sub-sector to complement the setting up of Auto clusters as espoused by the new automotive policy in the country. Our target is to attract many reputable Original Equipment Manufacturers of Spare Parts from across the globe to participate in this edition as well as in subsequent ones. Over 70 confirmed Original Equipment Manufacturers from all over the world are already preparing to be at the show.

In conjunction with our foreign partners: SENEXPO International Fairs Inc of Turkey, we have reached out to many of such companies and happily the response has been tremendous and we are expecting close to 150 of them. Our intention in bringing them to Lagos which is the hub of automotive business in West Africa is to enable Nigerians and neighbouring West Africans engaged in auto spare business work out rewarding and lasting business relationships with the main companies engaged in the manufacture of auto spare parts.