The First Ethiopian Business Portal

EthioMarket is an Internet portal focused on promoting Ethiopian market development by creating a grass roots online community. The current website can be viewed at www.ethiomarket.com. EthioMarket aims to solve the difficulties various organization (Government, Local Services, local NGOs, Companies, etc.) in Ethiopia encounter by enabling access to information by leveraging the Internet.

(PRWEB) March 23, 2004 --EthioMarket(www.ethiomarket.com)has successful created the most comprehensive on-line portal to allow the global market to access the various Ethiopian market sectors with a click of a button. EthioMarket with its partners have been able to successfully create the first Ethiopian Business portal to promote the Ethiopian market and enable it to foster growth for the local market in various sectors that would lead to creation of jobs, professional development, and better living standards.

Currently the site enjoys a monthly hit over 500,000 and the business inquires that come for the various Ethiopian companies in different sector per month are as follow: Export 350 and Import 425 and Local Service 95 (Stats of November 2003).

EthioMarket with its partner the Ethiopian Press Agency have been successful to further promote the Ethiopian bids (tenders) by publishing it on-line on EthioMarket portal. Perviously the bids was only accessed through the "Ethiopian Herald" news paper which is published by the Ethiopian Press Agency. The bids on-line allows a great access for the business community in the world market to participate in the local bids in Ethiopia which has its great advantages.

In Addition EthioMarket has been able to create a user friendly site for the Ethiopian Custom Authority (www.ethiomarket.com/ecua). This site for the Custom Authority has been a vital importance to business community around the world. Now with the Custom Authority site available, business communities around the world can have Ethiopian custom information at the tip of their fingers.

EthioMarket partners are various government sector, such as Ministry of Revenue, Ethiopian Custom Authority, Quality and Standards Authority of Ethiopia, Federal Inland Revenue Authority, Ethiopian Export Promotion Agency, Ethiopian Press Agency, Ethiopian Investment Commission, Ethiopian Privatization Agency, Public Enterprises Supervising Authority, Ethiopian Tourism Commission, Ethiopian Coffee Exporter's Association, etc.. All these partners information can be found on EthioMarket website for more details the direct link is http://www.ethiomarket.com/market_info.htm.

Note: some of the above partners have recently signed a contract with EthioMarket and their information will soon be posted on the website.

Among the many international institutions and organization which one of them is The World Bank has recognized the effort of EthioMarket and its goal to promote the Ethiopian market and has linked EthioMarket site to their site. EthioMarket link with the World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org/afr/et/links_general.htm. To list other few of the sites that EthioMarket is linked to are: US Library of Congress, UK Trade & Investment, The Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute, World Trade Point Federation, International Trade center (UNCTAD/WTO), Ministry of Revenue Ethiopia, numerous Ethiopian and Foreign Embassies and much more.

EthioMarket invites you to visit our website and find out for yourself why we are the fastest growing business portal in Ethiopia.