Retail is Fierce💪. You must be the best at Quality, Price and Service to Compete to Win!

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Once every year I bring together the most brilliant minds in business and politics on the Trade with Africa Business Summit platform to advance business, trade and investment dialogue. This year I hosted 20+ speakers across sectors including mining, tourism, retail, manufacturing, technology, agriculture, women's economic empowerment, policy management and implementation and others to advance trade.

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One of such speakers was my friend, sponsor and mentor - Scott Ford who is the CEO of Westrock Coffee and Economic Adviser to President Paul Kagame of Rwanda. Scott also happens to be the single largest private investor and employer in that Nation.

For over an hour I engaged with Scott during the Investor Q & A session. We discussed various topics including what it takes to win in retail and supply retailers such as Walmart. You can watch clip from that engagement at this link - 



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