DOBOJEXPO 2008

Oct 15-18, 2008

The international 12th Small and Medium Enterprises, Entrepreneurship and Start-ups Fair DOBOJEXPO 2008 is traditional small business fair which is organized in the city of Doboj.

The Fair is registered in the Official Calendar of Fairs in Republic Srpska for Year 2008, Official Calendar of Fairs in Bosnia and Herzegovina for Year 2008 and in some international fairs catalogues.

Organizers of small business fairs in the city of Doboj are Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Doboj Region and Craftsmen-Entrepreneurs Chamber for Doboj Region, with Municipality Doboj assistance. Fair coorganizer are RARS - Republic Agency for SMEs Development Banjaluka and Municipal Agency for SMEs Development Doboj. 

Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Doboj Region and Craftsmen-Entrepreneurs Chamber for Doboj Region are businesses associations for enterprises and craftsmen-entrepreneurs businesses, respectively.

DOBOJEXPO is business exposition which is contributed (especially in post-war period) to establish business relationships between businesses of two entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to reconstitute unique market on the teritory of former Yugoslavia.

DOBOJEXPO is a fair of business, entrepreneurship and ideas. Participants are the enterprises, craftsmen and entrepreneurs and start-ups of all activities in manufacturing, services, crafts, handicrafts, catering industry and trade, tourism, home busieness, art handicrafts and other business and intellectual activities. Except subjects of small-scale industry, participants are large industry systems with production offer especially oriented to small-scale industry, too.

Primary objectives of the DOBOJEXPO Fair are:
- to present possibilities and development performances of small and medium enterprises, craftsmen and entrepreneurs and start-ups, by the whole way and on one unique place (city of Doboj);
- to assert knowledges and skills of small and medium enterprises, craftsmen and entrepreneurs and start-ups, and appropriate business associations;
- to establish more independent interrelation informing system for small and medium enterprises, craftsmen and entrepreneurs and start-ups, about mutual possibilities and problems;
- to multiply possibilities for different types of business;
- to explicitly indicate advontages of private sector enterpreneurship and to promote entrepreneurship spirit;
- presentation of production and services programs and business contacts (B2B) and
- to advance knowledges and skills of small and medium enterprises, craftsmen and entrepreneurs and start-ups, by organization of (expert) workshops and round tables, as well as other concomitant fair activities which are very interesting for fair exhibitors and visitors, especially for the city of Doboj and its progress.

DOBOJEXPO is traditionally organized in the autumn months, from Wednesday to Sonday.
The Fair lives 4 days. Planned period for the Fair DOBOJEXPO 2008 is from October 15-18, 2008, and Fair Venue is Secondary School Center Sport Hall, beside BMD Shopping Center, street: Cara Dusana 18 in Doboj.

DOBOJEXPO realization is directed by Organization Committee of the Fair. Structure of the Fair Organization Committee includes representatives of state government (Government of Republika Srpska with authorized ministries and agencies, etc.), representatives of local goverment (chief of Municipality Doboj with authorized municipality departments and agencies, etc.), representatives of state chambers (Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Republika Srpska, Craftsmen-Entrepreneurs Chamber for Republika Srpska, etc.), representatives of regional chambers (Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Doboj Region, Craftsmen-Entrepreneurs Chamber for Doboj Region, etc.), members of Executive Directorate of the Fair, representatives of small and medium enterprises, entrepreneurs and start-ups, and, according to sponsorships or by necessity, other persons from local government, miscellaneous institutions and organizations, information systems, etc. Organization Committee organizes the Fair using owned Directorate with managers for individual job segments of the Fair (marketing, venue, financials).

The users of the Fair DOBOJEXPO are:
- small and medium enterprises, craftsmen-entrepreneurs and start-ups (small businesses),
- industry systems with production offer especially oriented to small businesses:
- small and medium enterprises, craftsmen-entrepreneurs and start-ups businesses associations;
- chambers of commerce and industry and craftsmen-entrepreneurs chambers and
- Fair visitors
by the aspect of delivering business contacts (B2B - Business to Business) and possibilities of establishing, maintenance and expanding business relationships.

Origin of the DOBOJEXPO users are entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, former yugoslavian republics and abroad. In last 11 years, structure of DOBOJEXPO exhibitors/participants is the next:
 

In the case of the international 12th Small and Medium Enterprises, Entrepreneurship and Start-ups Fair DOBOJEXPO 2008, except private employers from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, special interesting is showed by private employers from Germany, Austria and Italy who have particular business cooperation projects with chambers of commerce and industry in the Republika Srpska, as well as domestic and foreign non-government organizations which activities are routed to business development especially to small and medium enterprises.

The international 12th Small and Medium Enterprises, Entrepreneurship and Start-Ups Fair DOBOJEXPO 2008 realization is especially interesting for specific Doboj city ambition to become a center of small-scale industry of Republika Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina.