Saudi Arabia Trade Mission

Saudi Arabian Water Tower
Date: 25th to 29th November 2018
Sector: Multi-Sector
Mission Sponsor: Pathfinder Trade and Invest
In Conjunction with: AEI Saudi  

Visiting Riyadh and offering delegates the chance to take advantage of bespoke arrangements and confirmed individual meetings, we are delighted to work with our partners AEI Saudi Arabia to meet your objectives.

This Mission is open to all sectors and gives you, the delegate, the opportunity to choose from a menu of services to ensure that you receive the most benefit from your participation.

The Mission will be led by David Lloyd who has led over twenty Trade Missions to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.  As a former member of HM Diplomatic Service, David spent five years living and working in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia and maintains a wide range of business and political contacts across the Kingdom.

This trade mission will follow our Opportunity Arabia Conference - 'Oil and Beyond: How change in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia unlocks new opportunities’ , in September.

About the Mission:

  • This Mission will be led by David Lloyd OBE, a renowned Saudi Arabia expert. As a former member of HM Diplomatic Service, David spent 5 years living and working in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia and maintains a wide range of business and political contacts across the Kingdom. He last visited the Kingdom in April 2018
  • This mission co-insides with one exhibition which is:
    27th - 29th November: Saudi Horeca - Food & Beverage and Hospitality

Who is this Mission for?

  • This Mission is multi-sector and open to all
  • New and experienced exporters are encouraged to join
  • Mission participants must be British exporters of goods or services. They may be a UK registered subsidiary of a foreign company, providing they are actively contributing to the British economy.

Benefits of the Mission:

  • Day one of the programme will feature:
    • A welcome event
    • A 'Business Fundamentals' briefing
    • A networking dinner
  • To ensure that delegates get the most from their participation, we are delighted to offer the following two additional menu options:
    1. A warmed contact list of 6 contacts for you to make your own approaches and arrange meetings.
    2. Research for 3 partner companies with firm meetings arranged. This research will include engaging with, and pre-qualifying, each potential Saudi partner company to ensure that they are relevant to the requirements of the mission delegate and, more importantly, are interested in the delegate’s product or service.
  • You can take advantage of an optional negotiated travel package, or make your own arrangements and meet the main delegation in Riyadh.

Key Dates:

  • Final Application Deadline: 18th October 2018
  • Early Bird Discount Available Until: 3rd October 2018

Market Information

Under the leadership of Saudi’s new crown prince, Mohammad bin Salman, Saudi Arabia is undergoing structural reforms politically, economically and socially, which if successful, will transform the Kingdom towards a service economy post-oil.

These changes along with significant amounts of investment - estimated to soon be over US$1 trillion - will create vast amounts of opportunities for the most innovative and cutting-edge businesses in all sectors.

Vision 2030, a government plan to diversify the economy from its reliance on oil, has only just begun and with a young and increasingly well-educated population, together with its own sovereign wealth fund, the Kingdom has many favourable factors to become a leading service sector economy in the region.