Souq Nama, NAMA Center’s first (2017) edition, inaugurated by Maryam Al Mannai, Acting Executive Manager of NAMA Center, at Festival City Qatar, yesterday. Pic: Qassim Rahmatullah / The Peninsula
NAMA Center, in collaboration with Doha Festival City (DFC), yesterday launched Souq Nama exhibition which aims at promoting local products and entrepreneurs.
By organising this event, NAMA in association with DFC have contributed to the efforts of supporting the ongoing Global Entrepreneur Week (GEW),
Souq Nama is a special kind of exhibition focussing on local products and home based business projects. The aim of the exhibition is to offer local products to Qatari people, and their brands. The exhibition also aims to reach these products to local market.
NAMA is one of the leading development institutions in the country and has the mission to empower youth and expand their opportunities.
The exhibition includes 34 different sections, such as perfumes, clothes, candles, food, and beauty products. These products are 100 percent locally produced by creative Qatari companies, such as Barazan Palace Hospitality, Samona and Chai, Honey Producer Bu Saif Apiaries, Taraf Perfumes, Candles Passion and Aland Al Ghamdi Photography. The exhibition also has a section for creative individuals such as photographers, painters and other artists.
Talking to The Peninsula, Maryam Al Mannai, Acting Executive Manager of NAMA Center, about cooperation between NAMA and DFC, said: “the aim for this exhibition is giving a big opportunity for entrepreneurs to show their projects, in a big commercial place such as big mall, which is different from the traditional shopping place. It will be easy for these entrepreneurs to sell their products here as customers are present most of the time”.
She added: “We have launched Souq Nama at DFC for the first time, and we expect from this cooperation to provide best results for our entrepreneurs”
She noted: “ We have allotted spaces entrepreneurs to market their products in the past and we have achieved good results from these efforts. The entrepreneurs have registered rise in their sales and some of them of set up their shops in markets”. She added: “We also hope that other stakeholders in the country will follow the footsteps of Doha Festival City and contribute to the success of our developmental work in supporting this important segment of the community.”
