Macau | Portuguese companies eye business opportunities at 2018 PLPEX

Macau (MNA) – A Portuguese delegation including companies specialised in products as diverse as vaporisers, organic jams and construction machinery is coming to this year’s 2018 Portuguese-speaking Countries Products and Services Exhibition (Macao) – 2018 PLPEX.

Eight Portuguese companies will be present at the conference held between October 18 and 20 October at The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, namely, Electrocig; Estúdio Didáctico; GalaxiEncantada; Mindalizer Consulting; Mobiz; PSA Trade; Puris; and the Sópneus brand.

The companies participation is co-founded by the Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation, under the Portugal 2020 Partnership Agreement – a plan that uses European funds to help boost economic growth in Portugal.

One of the delegation members, PSA Trade focuses on import/export, distribution, and marketing of construction machinery and equipment, and has currently partnerships in Europe, Africa and the Middle East but its CEO, Paulo Almeida, sees the exhibition as an opportunity to ‘reach directly its target customers’ while internationalising the brand.

Another Portuguese company present will be Mindalizer, a consulting company that provides a digital strategy for search engine optimisation targeting Chinese search engines such as Bing.

The firm’s CEO Rui Pereira, wants Mindalizer to deepen the cooperation with companies of Macau and Mainland China, as well as to consolidate Macau’s role as an intermediary between China and Portugal.

The 2018 PLPEX covers an area of about 6,000 square metres, with more than 300 stands to accommodate companies and organisations from the eight Portuguese-speaking countries, as well as representative agencies of products and services from Mainland China, Macao and Hong Kong.

It will be held at the same time as the 23rd Macao International Trade and Investment Fair (MIF), which will have Mozambique as this year’s partner country, and Fujian province as partner province.