Features private schools and education services available in East Africa from primary through secondary and tertiary colleges offering professional qualifications and studies. EDUCATION 2005 will incorporate the 6th. COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITIES FAIR which targets the 25,000 Kenyan secondary students who annual seek to identify places in overseas universities (Kenya has over 17,000 students in overseas universities) Exhibitors from Australia, Malaysia, Canada, India, South Africa, and Kenya and elsewhere in Africa. Attendance 12,000 to 15,000 students and parents. Organizers Express Communications Limited in conjunction with Sarit Exhibitions and Promotions Limited.
Provides a vibrant forum for the latest trends in the world of information technology targeted at businessmen, industrialists, professionals, educationists, and home and personal users of computers. Not only PCs but the whole range of notebooks, laptops, multi-media options, PC parts and peripherals, software accessories, UPS systems, scanners, printers, word-processing and DTP, networking, Internet and e-commerce is represented. Ex-stand sales. Attendance 15,000 to 20,000 Gate charges Adults Shs. 100, Children Shs. 50.
HOLIDAYS 2005 9th - 13th March
Kenya’s premier domestic tourism promotion. Show-cases local tourism attractions available to residents through the Easter Holidays and at discounted rates during the off-season thereafter. Covers the whole range of holiday and getaway options from home-stays, time-sharing, tented camps, wildlife lodges, beach hotels and the services provided by travel agents, tour operators, air charter and airlines, Kenya Railways and car-hire options. Hugely popular. Generates thousands of bed-night sales and multi-million sales for the tourism sector. Attendance 20,000 plus
UK EDUCATION FAIR 2005 3rd - 7th February
Organized by The British Council in Nairobi, this annual event regularly features over 50 UK universities. Extremely popular it attracts up to 10,000 Form 3 and Form students preparing for the Kenya national Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations and from the private schools students who are due or have already taken IGCSE and A level examinations. Kenya has over 17,000 students in overseas universities, a large number of these in UK. The complementary seminar programme is a popular additional feature with overseas speakers on a range of topics.
One of The Sarit Centre’s most popular events, show-cases quality furniture, home fittings and furnishings, kitchen and household appliances, crockery, utensils, carpets, rugs, fabrics, curtaining, lighting and security devices and designer wash-basins and bath units, as well as indoor and patio flowers and plants. Ex-stand sales. Attendance 15,000 plus. Attracts show-goers from The Sarit Centre’s leading affluent catchment areas as well as farther afield seeking to take advantage of show discounts and the wide product variety all under one roof.
FOODWORLD 2005 is Kenya’s premier consumer show for the food and beverages industry, bringing together producers and manufacturers of locally grown and processed products with a vast range of foods and beverages from elsewhere displayed by importers and wholesalers. Ex-stand sales allowed. This five-day event annual attracts more than 15,000 visitors seeking to take advantage of show discounts to stock home larders and source new products for educational and training institutions.
KENYA HORTICULTURE SOCIETY SHOW, 2005 6th - 12th June
The Kenya Horticulture Society Show is another “first” for The Sarit Centre, which has recently hosted a major flower show, an orchid show, and now has two horticultural shows in its exhibition calendar. The Kenya Horticulture Society is a long-established organization, and previously held its shows in community halls. This new commercial initiative presages a drive by the current committee to expand and diversify the Society’s activities. Targets growers, with supporting sponsorship and exhibits by suppliers of horticultural machinery, and services.
Dedicated to African crafts, CRAFTS OF AFRICA is scheduled in the early Christmas season to generate sales from buyers seeking authentic traditional and modern crafts for families and friends Ex-stand sales allowed. Usually attracts 15,000 to 20,000 visitors.
Crafts range from wood carvings, Zanzibar chests, Lamu doors, Kisii stone carvings, metalwork, tie-dye materials and clothes, leather, hand-woven cotton, wool, sisal and other natural fibers, beadwork, blown-glass, gourds, authentic ethnic artifacts and much more.
GETAWAY 2005 is designed for the travel and tourism sector to boost hotel, lodge, and tour bookings for the Christmas Holidays, especially this December when many Nairobi residents and their families may wish to spend time away from the capital, either elsewhere in Kenya or in neighbouring Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Uganda or other holiday destinations.
Participation in GETAWAY 2005 will be relevant for coast hotels and wildlife park lodges and tour operators in East Africa, and tour and travel firms marketing holiday packages to India, Egypt, the Far East, Europe and Australia, for instance. It is anticipated that not less than 10,000 local residents will visit the three-day event
8TH. NAIROBI INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR, 2005 22th - 26th September
This is the 8th. NAIROBI INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR organized by the Kenya Publishers Association. The emphasis is locally published books and magazines, but is now starting to attract the attention of publishers elsewhere in Africa and elsewhere overseas. Targets the publishing trade as well as the public. Up to 20,000 visitors, including schools groups. Provides a platform for the dynamic marketing and promotion service industry, and targets promotional book-signings, book-readings, book-launches and a comprehensive seminar programme.
Founded in 1939, the Kenya Orchid Society has held regular annual shows since 1956. An entrance charge is made, and attendance at the annual shows now held in The Sarit Centre’s Exhibition Hall average 5,000. Ex-stand sales of orchids is allowed. A non-profit organization, its principal objectives are to create awareness and interest in orchids, their cultivation and conservation throughout Kenya. Visitors are welcome to the KOS monthly (second Sunday) garden meetings. Under the chairmanship of Nigel Bremner and Show Director Pindy Naul, the Society has increased membership, improved annual shows, and raised funds for the rehabilitation of orchid houses in the Botanical Gardens of the Museums of Kenya.
Contact: P. O. Box30740 Nairobi Tel: 254-2-884473, 254-2-882657 trident@kenyaweb.com
The wedding industry is one of Kenya’s fastest growing service sectors, and The Sarit Centre’s WEDDING FAIR ’05 sets out to create a single showcase for the professionals and institutions involved in hosting and planning weddings and special events. The evolution in the wedding industry over the past ten years has been dramatic as increasingly young, professional Kenyans marry after having worked for some time and having saved and meticulously planned and budgeted, for the memorable day. Additional attractions including a Bridal Fashion Show, Video Displays, Sights & Smells to Tantalize, Latest Fashion Colours among others being organised in conjunction with a leading wedding consultant and publisher.
IMAGE ‘05 22nd - 25th April
IMAGE ‘05 is designed to raise the profile of hair and beauty products in Kenya, to act as a venue for presenting information to consumers and to create and attract sales. It is to be organized in conjunction with Messers. Glamour Touch (Kenya) and Messers. Strands & Skin. Activities planned for the event include hair and make-up demonstrations and competitions, product demonstrations etc. and these present manufactures and distributors with a unique opportunity to back product displays with actual demonstrations of use in an exhibition setting.
