UNCAPPED Marketplace, an exposition allowing exhibitors to showcase and sell their locally made products, is on this Sunday (March 31) at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence, East Bank Demerara.

The private sector-led initiative will allow exhibitors to offer their products to a wider national audience and to network and market their businesses.
“It is an opportunity for those already established to build and further promote existing brands,” the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) said. The GMSA is the agency with which the initiative originated.

The event is free to the public and will be open from 10:00hrs to 20:00hrs.
“What we want to do is to build the capacity of the small agro-processors to help them to find niche markets in the Caribbean and in Guyana to start with, and ultimately, the United States of America and Canada,” the GMSA said.

A day of fun for the entire family is also planned with games, music, “a wide variety of real Guyanese food” and lots of giveaways.

As part of the excitement, the ‘Savour the Flavour – Guyana Uncapped Competition’ will allow anyone to enter and have a chance to win shelf-loads of locally made products. “It’s simple. Participate online by uploading a photo of your favourite agro-processed product, telling us why you like it and hashtag it #uncappedflavours, or come to the event and assist in rating the products and get a chance to enter the grand competition to win shelf loads of local products from our uncapped cabinet,” GMSA said.

The event is being sponsored by Sterling Products Limited, GMSA, Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL), Ministry of Business, Banks DIH, ExxonMobil Guyana, NAMILCO, Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited, John Fernandes Limited; Brand partners include Sagacity Inc. and Star Party Rentals.

The GMSA hopes the event will help to see improvement from agro-processors who will be participating. “That is why the ‘Savour the Flavour Competition’ is designed to get feedback from the public, while they can still win big.”