The world’s best coffee comes perhaps from Africa and now you get the chance to sample the absolute best East African coffee the African Fine Coffee Association (AFCA) have to offer this year. AFCA will visit Scandinavia with their Taste of Harvest, a business and cupping event that focus on quality coffee from East Africa […]
Ghana Business Day a great success!
We here at B-Open Nordic was assigned to help the Embassy of Ghana arrange a special trade and investment promotion event called Ghana Business Day. It took place on May 10th and around 70 people from Swedish business attended. We had great feedback from attendee who made business connections same day and we also got […]
Katuka B-Open, a joint venture to promote sustainable quality coffee from Uganda
Katuka Development Trust in Uganda and B-Open Nordic in Sweden have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to join forces in creating a company together called KATUKA – B-OPEN Uganda Ltd. The overall goal of this partnership is to find customers for sustainable coffee from Uganda in Europe but also to find funding and partnerships […]
New partnership within creative industries to boost Swedish exports
Swedish Minister of Enterprise and Innovation, Mikael Damberg, have initiated a new partnership between five industry associations in fashion, music, computer games, advertisements, film and television that is called Kreativ Sektor (Creative Sector) and this program is part of help securing Sweden’s competitiveness in creative industries. For sure this is an important part of the […]
SEED open office in Nairobi and welcome East African business to apply for the SEED Transformation Program
Good news for companies in East Africa. Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED) are now opening its second centre in Africa, this time in East Africa and the door will open in May 2016! The first one has been in Accra Ghana but second centre is located in Nairobi, Kenya. We have been […]