Leadway backs SME’s growth with support for Lagos Leather Fair –

In alignment with its ethos of engendering expertise diversification, advertising creativeness and enabling growth for the Small and Medium Business sector in Nigeria, Leadway, the foremost financial products and services supplier, will be sponsoring the fifth edition of the Lagos Leather-based Reasonable 2022, the largest occasion dedicated to advertising leather in West Africa.

The Lagos Leather Honest 5 (LLF5), which retains in Lagos, from June 11 to 12, 2022, will attribute manner authorities, manufacturers, designers, leather fans, creatives, and primary leather-based marketplace gurus in Nigeria and Africa.

Speaking in advance of the Fair, Olusakin Labeodan, group main Marketing Officer, Leadway Holdings stated that the artistic marketplace, primarily the fashion space, has been getting relevance, unleashing creativity and enabling budding young enterprises to establish makes and a sustainable economic upcoming for by themselves.

Their world wide impact has built it shared duty for significant stakeholders, both of those in the community and personal sectors, to participate in sustaining this evolution.

“Over the several years, we have viewed phenomenal expansion in the innovative house as extra imaginative minds and enterprises showcase their impressive performs further than the shores of Africa, thereby putting a high quality on our collective innovativeness and elevating our ability for price development.

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For that reason, it is a shared duty for people and corporates alike to facilitate and persuade platforms primed for showcasing skills and growing their know-how and access, for this reason our choice to guidance the Lagos Leather Honest.

According to the Ministry of Field, Trade, and Expenditure, Nigeria has over 37 million micro, smaller and medium-scale enterprises (MSME), accounting for extra than 84 for every cent of total careers development in the place, 48.5 for every cent of the gross domestic merchandise, GDP, as effectively as about 7.27 percent of products and companies exported out of the country.

This remarkable information demonstrates the MSMEs’ outstanding contribution to economic growth and why they will need assistance. The Leather marketplace is constantly propelled by the energies and creativities of the MSMEs, and we are delighted to be a section of this journey as active supporters”.

Commenting on the sponsorship, founder, Lagos Leather Honest, Femi Olayebi, reported, “We’re enthusiastic to be back for our fifth version, and in partnership with proud sponsors and forward-leaning corporates like Leadway, to go on to build substantial visibility for the two starting up and founded designers.