Kazakhstan Business Mission
Business mission to CIS countries
Draft action plan
Introduction:
ECMI is designated by the Minister of Industry and foreign Trade that gather industry related policy makers “producers, exporters and government representatives” to draft and implement export strategies that are compatible with the changing business environment and work as a consultative body to the minister .
Mission goals & objectives:
• Promote the Egyptian medical products in the CIS market
• Get acquainted with the products’ registration procedure, pricing system in the CIS market.
• Enhance the sector’s capabilities and competitiveness to match the CIS standards.
• Improve the sector’s export to the CIS market
• B2B meetings with serious agents/traders/buyers
• Joint-venture activities between both parties
• Site visits to the top medical manufacturers to detect the latest technology used
Beneficiaries:
The program should serve the medical companies that cover the following sub-sectors:
1- Medical devices
2- Pharmaceuticals (human & vet)
3- Cosmetics
Mission partners:
The proposed activities will be undertaken by the following parties:
- The Export Council of Medical Industries / ECMI
- The Egyptian Exporters Association (ExpoLink)
- The Egyptian Businessmen council (if any)
- ECS offices in CIS countries
- The Egyptian manufacturers / beneficiaries
- Egyptian Exhibition & Conferences Authority - EECA
Tentative mission date:
September 2015, more focus will be on Kazakhstan, Uzpakistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan …etc
Proposed activities:
1- Promotion & marketing
a. Extensive promotion & awareness about the Egyptian mission among the sector stakeholders
b. Newsletter to be disseminated among the sector players
c. Advertisement in special magazines in the CIS countries
d. Establish contact with the following entities in the target markets:
a. Industrial chamber
b. Commercial chamber
c. Distributors and importers association
e. Brief about each targeted sector and company profiles to be prepared in Russian language.
2- Companies profile for B2B meetings
The match making process depends on the proper match of profiles and requirements between both parties.
**Attached is the company profile that should be filled that is essential for the match making.
A hotel hall will be rented, where all the B2B meetings will be conducted based on a prepared schedule prior to the mission date.
3- Official representatives
A workshop will be conducted with the official following representatives, providing more about the needed requirements for starting new business, product registration, sector profile, quality standards needed…etc
- Ministry of Health (MOH)
- Ministry of Industry
- Customs authority
- Chamber of Commerce
- Medical Associations
4- Site visits
Site visits to be included in the mission to the following:
- Biggest manufacturer in the sector
- Clinics and hospitals
- Specialized industrial zone
Required information prior to the mission
The following information is essential for the domestic companies to be able to access the market and participate in the mission:
- Market brief about the medical sector in target markets
- Main competitors and market share
- Sector import and export figures
- MOH development strategy and plan for the sector
- Local medical insurance
- Main industrial players
- Medical sector expenditure
- Product registration procedures
The mission’s covered costs
Further to the EECA procedures the following costs will be 70% subsidized, excluding the air-ticket and accommodation.
- Local transportation
- Rent of hotel hall for workshop
- Workshop and B2B meeting costs
- Translators