01/02/2024
🌍 Last year I had the honour to lead big business delegations to Angola, Ghana, Egypt, Senegal and South Africa.
You may ask me: "What did I learn?" 🧐
Well, to put it in a nutshell, I would say to go beyond and to be brave.
👉 To go beyond what doing business in Europe means, to go beyond the differences we have in culture, to go beyond judging what we don't understand and to go beyond to make money with quick wins. AFRICA - SHE IS DIFFERENT - and if you want your cash to flow, you first have to make an investment. So be brave enough to invest yourself, your time, your presence and be brave enough to invest yourself in her people and to understand their needs.
I'm sure, with this mindest, combined with your sustainable innovative solutions 🇦🇹 'made in Austria', with your know-how and your excellent service, even years after a project is finished, you will find open doors, loyal business partners, a supportive community and business options you never could imagine.
You know, seeing an African Minister and his whole team, head to toe dressed in damast "made in Austria", 😳 was really impressive. Knowing hundrets of thousands of children now have access to drinkable 💦 water, because of your solutions - just melted my heart🤍. Thousands of people can get medical treatments, because you build the hospital, you build the 🌁 bridges, the streets 🛣️, the railways 🚉 and now you are building the systems that run renuable energy 💧🔋☀️🌪️. All of this makes me very proud and humble at the same time.
It's 🙌 YOU - THE AUSTRIAN COMPANIES 🙌, together with your families, your employees, your diverse and innovative business partners, making a real change in the world, beeing part of the solution and in doing so, even creating more jobs in Africa and Austria. 🎊👏👏👏👏👏🎉
I THANK YOU 🙏 and as your Vice President it's a big honour and my invest in you, to do my very best together with our great team to support you, so you and your businesses can thrive and go beyond!
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