PORT MORESBY, NCD, 17 June 2022 – The PNG SME Magazine, in partnership with SME Corporation is pleased to announce TISA Community Finance Limited (TCFL) as its Diamond sponsor for the 4th Annual SME Business Breakfast with the Prime Minister to be held Monday, 27 June 2022.
Initiated by the PNG SME Magazine in 2019, the 4th Breakfast commemorates the international micro, Small and Medium-sized Business Day. It is an informative and entertaining sun rise breakfast with a mix of interviews, market updates, analysis and opinion covering the morning’s top stories and big issues in Papua New Guinea. Discussions induced into the breakfast cover Government to Business domestic trade support and their respective roles in achieving the Sustainable Growth and Development of the micro and SME sector.
It has facilitated the exchange of knowledge, experiences and lessons learned surrounding this vital nexus and proposed "next steps" and discuss the way forward in translating the agenda into a concrete trajectory for action.
“TCFL is honored to support as the diamond sponsor of the 2022 SME Breakfast with the Prime Minister,” said Mr. Karai Morea, TCFL CEO. “Events like these that work to encourage and inspire economic development and growth have a lasting impact on business community, especially SMEs.”
“We’re excited for TCFL’s sponsorship,” Andrew Runawery, Managing Director of Strategic Communications and event organizer. “Leveraging our partnership with TCF at events like this works to deepen our reach.”
In 2019, the inaugural event drew a pre-covid full room of guests representing a diverse of stakeholders in SME Development and Growth without any sponsors. “We secured platinum support from KCH in 2020 and Kina Bank in 2021 and we are humbled that TCFL is supporting at Diamond level to engage with the sector,” said Mr. Runawery.
“We will also be launching nominations for the 2022 annual SME Awards of Papua New Guinea at the Breakfast.”
Runawery thanked the Ralda administration at SME Corporation for endorsing the event and acknowledged gold sponsors BSP, PNG Air, BintangCOM, EMTV Blue7 Event Production ,and Support Partners Kinect Limited, Motion Piksa and O2Visuals PNG for their support this year.