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Corporate Sponsor

SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. SGS is recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 80,000 employees, SGS operates a network of over 1,650 offices and laboratories around the world.

We help ensure the integrity of the food chain by providing services that cover all aspects of the agricultural industry, helping customers manage crops, enhance seed development, conduct soil testing and harvesting, move product through the global supply chain and manage trade inspection at export and import. Serving all of the major players in the agricultural sector, our services reduce risk, ensure quality and improve productivity.

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Case IH is the professionals' choice, drawing on more than 170 years of heritage and experience in the agricultural industry. A powerful range of tractors, combines, self-propelled sprayers, sugar cane harvesters, windrowers, tillage equipment and balers supported by a global network of highly professional dealers dedicated to providing our customers with the superior support and performance solutions required to be productive and effective in the 21st century. More information on Case IH products and services can be found online at http://www.caseih.com/.

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The African Export-Import Bank (“Afreximbank”) is a trade-finance-focused development bank established in October 1993 as multilateral trade development institution to finance and promote trade among African countries and between Africa and the rest of the world. It has its headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.

Under its Establishment Charter, and as a supranational institution, the Bank is granted certain privileges and exemptions in its Member States and enjoys preferred creditor status in its countries of operation. Created as a profit-oriented multilateral institution with a mixed public-private shareholder base, its focus is on private sector loans, guarantees and advisory services. Its four-tier shareholder base includes Class “A” shareholders, constituted of African states, African central banks and African public institutions, such as the African Development Bank, and Class “B”, made up of African financial institutions and African private investors. Class “C” shares are held by non-African investors, mostly international banks and export credit agencies, including Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC, Citibank, China Exim Bank and Exim India, while Class “D” shares, a new tier approved in December 2012, are fully paid par value shares that can be held by any investor.

Afreximbank is rated BBB- by both Fitch Ratings and Standard and Poor’s and Baa2 by Moody’s, all with a stable outlook.

Since 1994, the Bank, which has authorized capital of $5 billion, has approved more than $25 billion in credit facilities in support of African trade, including $3.71 billion in 2012.

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