As Palmadex Global Integrated Services Ltd celebrates a landmark fifth anniversary, international trade communities reference stellar activities that shaped the benchmark to export trading in Nigeria and West Africa, coming up with a cast of relevant experts, to exceptional leaders in world trade today.
As the year pushes on, Palmadex is seeing well into the future by wooing Nigerians with strategic portfolios for international trade, including the Export Academy which trains internationally inclined producers, and even students to earn side income through wielding relevant export knowledge.
Widely regarded as the global export-import trading partner of choice, Palmadex was founded in March 2015 by Dr. Benard Adedotun Omoyeni, but flagged off full operations in 2017, with a mission to provide a platform for right investment and sustainable partnership.
And over the years, Palmadex Global has invested heavily in major sectors of Nigeria’s economy, including food, infrastructure, export and education. The Company has also shown that it is committed to creating trans generational value, by building and investing in a number of companies through various trade offices across several nations, including Palmadex International General Trading LLC, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Palmadex, Van Tu, Vietnam and many other offices domiciled and fully registered in many other nations across the globe.
Locally, Palmadex portfolio includes Palmadex Export Academy, which comprises of 8 modules including Introduction to Export, Export Financing, Export Contract Execution, Challenges in Export, and How to find buyers within its curriculum. Essentially, the institution has important areas covered to ensure that trained persons are fully equipped to get into export business profitably and risk free to the barest minimum.
Other portfolios being fully harnessed by Palmadex include Export Partnership and Consulting, Farming & Afforestation, Sawmill Factory, Nigerian/African Foods Processing, Packaging and Export.
Speaking on the Export Academy as a value adding institute with journalists, the Business and Research Development Manager of Palmadex, Nnenne Azubuike, describes Palmadex as primarily an export company, where newbies from different walks of life and careers are trained to be professional exporters.
“It was flagged off in the year 2018, and operations started in 2019. Lots of benefits in this present day and age where people talk side hustle and income. Well we see it as additional source of revenue. Everybody needs it, civil servants and even the president of this country. Yes, people need multiple streams of income and it’s one of the major advantage.”
Some persons are in business already but they need international exposure, especially those in Agricultural sector. Most Agro commodities including Sesame seeds, Soya beans, Stone Flower, Peanuts, Palm Oil, Palm Kernel Shell, Cassava products, Sorghum, spices like Peppersoup, Banga and different processed Flours like yam and plantain, even the fruits can be exported actually. Attending the training gives exposure in terms of knowledge, and hands-on practical experience.
Recommended participants to benefit from the Export Academy, are M&A Professionals, Traders, Agricultural Products/ Food Producers, Directors of SMEs and Entrepreneurs, Bankers, Strategy Professionals, Young Graduates, Business Owners, with deal makers and negotiators. And key benefits include learning how to identify and overcome competition, understanding international negotiations, building global relationships, better trade practices and earning in foreign currencies to grow the national GDP.
The Operations Manager, Dr. Patrick Omoyeni, highly and globally ranked export business expert and gold medalist of the prestigious Kwame Nkruma Award for Transformational Leadership, also emphasizes on how highly ranked Palmadex Group including the export training/academy is, describing it as a world class export training facility.
“We are the benchmark to export trading in Nigeria, and actually highly ranked, because of our world class export training facility, which has earned us our motto of benchmark of qualitative export training facility in Nigeria. We provide executive training, best curriculum, hands-on training, that lets you determine what and when you want your training to be done.”
“We have won the Best Agricultural Product export company of the year by the Nigeria Export Summit. And also won the best export trading institute of the year 2019
Export Academy”.
A remarkable testimony is that of Bisola Ebhonu (ACA), the company’s accountant who describes her Palmadex experience as “moving out of your normal business, career territory, along with customer relationship outside your normal business mode”.
“Coming to this organization, I’ve come to learn more about export, with customers relationship. I’ve come to know a lot about customers and how they transact on foreign terms, with customers abroad.
Come for training, leverage contacts, you cannot do this without knowledge. So get adequate knowledge, venture into export business. And see how the financial aspects of your life changes for good. For you, your children and everybody around you.
With the company’s partnership with Fixit Nigeria, the brand has indeed carved a very unique niche for itself in Nigeria and beyond.