GREDA President, Mr. Kwakye Dopoah-Dei, last week hosted over fifty members of the Turkish business NGO TUSKON -- who were in the country to attend the 10th International Building, Construction and Property Fair -- to a cocktail and dinner at his residence.
The event served as a veritable networking platform between GREDA and their Turkish counterparts, attracting personalities in the real-estate and building industry such as Dr. Alex Tweneboa, former GREDA president; Mr. Seth Adu, Managing Director of Devtraco Limited; Mr. Torgbor Mensah, founding president of GREDA, and several others.
In his welcome remarks, Mr. Dopoah-Dei urged the delegation to take advantage of the stable economic and political environment in the country to invest in the real-estate sector by partnering Ghanaian businesses since it offers great opportunities for the future.
According to the GREDA President, even though a few Ghanaians are seriously doing good business with their Turkish counterparts the trade volume is still less than enough -- and called on fellow Ghanaian business people to consider Turkey when looking for new investors, since in his words “they are very innovative and have very good products comparable to the best standards in the worldâ€.
Responding, board-member of TUSKON and leader of the group Mr. Osman Gemci said TUSKON is highly interested in boosting relations with Ghana as well as serving as a bridge to bring the Turkish and Ghanaian businesses together, adding: “it is in this respect that TUKSON was in Ghana to take part in a couple of exhibitionsâ€.
Mr. Gemci urged members of GREDA to consider Turkey, which is the 16th-largest economy in the world with about US$800billion GDP -- more than US$10,000 GDP per capita -- as an important business destination. “Even at the height of the global economic crisis in 2011, Turkey was the second-fastest growing economy after China,†Mr. Gemci added.
“As we have done since the foundation of our group, we will continue to work in order to improve Turkey-Ghana trade volume by bringing together the business people of Turkey and Ghana,†Mr. Gemci said.
He commended the GREDA president who has had several years of excellent business relationship with several Turkish companies and also expressed his group’s gratitude to him and the executives of GREDA for the wonderful reception.
Dr. Alex Tweneboa, the immediate past-president of GREDA, said members are looking forward to a sustainable partnership between the two groups and invited TUSKON to make Ghana the hub of their dealings with Africa, “since Ghana is the gateway to the continentâ€.
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