Press Releases

7 PILLARS & 25 GOALS OF VISION 2025

Aug 13, 2014 |

The Union of Small & Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) for the benefit of SME stakeholders is reproducing below the text of Vision 2025. PILLAR I -PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST- DEVELOPING HUMAN AND SOCIAL CAPITAL 1. Increase Primary school enrollment and completion rate to 100% & literacy rate to 90%. 2. Increase Higher Education coverage from 7% to […more]

UNISAME FELICITATES PM & HIS TEAM ON VISION 2025

Aug 11, 2014 |

The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) felicitated the prime minister Nawaaz Sharif, finance minister Ishaq Dar and planning minister Ahsan Iqbal on the launch of vision 2025 which is based on 7 pillars for the economic development of Pakistan in the coming years. President UNISAME appreciated the road map and the 7 pillars […more]

POLITICAL TURMOIL HINDERING EXPORTS

Aug 8, 2014 |

Being badly affected by the political turmoil the country is facing and the protest marches announced by the opposition the Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has urged the former president of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari to intervene impartially and resolve the dispute between the different parties and organizations before 14th August the auspicious […more]

8th PAKISTAN SME FORUM ON 19th AUGUST 2014

Aug 6, 2014 |

Stakeholders collaborate to attend SME Forum 2014 Staff Reporter Tuesday, August 05, 2014 – Karachi—All key stakeholders including State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), Commercial Banks, Small & Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA), Business Support Fund (BSF), Sindh Enterprise Development Fund, Chambers of Commerce & Industry, IFC-World Bank, Sindh Finance Ministry, Sindh Investment Board, Women Entrepreneurs […more]

SME SECTOR DESERVES PRIORITY

Jul 26, 2014 |

The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) urged the convener of the 8th Pakistan SME Forum to highlight the fact that SME promotion and development is no charity it is the responsibility of the state and to advise the policy makers to facilitate, encourage, support and motivate the sector for rapid growth of the […more]

8th Pakistan SME Forum To Highlight Sector Requirements

Jul 23, 2014 |

The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) invited the attention of the convener 8th Pakistan SME Forum to be held at a local hotel on 19th August 2014 to emphasize and highlight the requirements of the sector for the attention of the policy makers to make it meaningful. President UNISAME Zulfikar Thaver urged Menin […more]

UNISAME DEMANDS APPOINTMENTS OF COMMERCIAL ATTACHES ON MERIT

Jul 20, 2014 |

The commercial officers posted in foreign countries play a very important role in promoting exports of Pakistani goods and need to have experience and training in the promotion of goods manufactured in Pakistan especially by the SME sector. The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has invited the attention of prime minister (PM) Nawaz […more]

8th Pakistan SME FORUM 2014 TO BE HELD ON 19th AUGUST

Jul 16, 2014 |

The small to medium sized entrepreneurs (SMEs) are the biggest stakeholders in Pakistan’s economy and need the best facilities of environment, finance, infrastructure, regular supply of energy amd uninterrupted supply of raw material advised the Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) in a message to the convener of the 8th Pakistan SME Forum 2014 […more]

RICE EXPORTERS HOLD BIG CORPORATIONS RESPONSIBLE FOR LOWERING SUPPLY CHAIN STANDARDS

Jul 12, 2014 |

The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has received serious complaints from SME rice exporters of lower standard supplies from the rice millers and hold the big corporations responsible for relaxing buying standards at their purchase points and spoiling the supply chain. President UNISAME Zulfikar Thaver said the big corporations are behaving like the […more]

UNISAME URGES KENYA TO ADOPT FRIENDLY TRADE POLICIES

Jul 10, 2014 |

The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has urged the Kenyan government to reconsider its decision to increase import duty on all varieties of rice and pointed out that it will affect the rice business in both the buying and the selling countries and urged the Kenyan ministry of commerce to give special consideration […more]