PROMOTING ENTERPRISE
GTBank Fashion Weekend
About Guaranty Trust Bank plc is a leading African financial institution with vast business interests spanning West and East Africa, as well as the United Kingdom. The Bank has an Asset Base of over $13.3 billion, Shareholders’ funds of $2.2 billion and an employee base of over 10,000 people in Nigeria, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Cote d’Ivoire, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and the United Kingdom. Established in 1990 on a foundation of excellence, superior customer experience, ethics and best practices, GTBank has created an oasis in the African banking industry; delivering consistent year on year growth in clientele base and key financial indices since its inception. With over 9.1 million customers and hundreds of service outlets across Africa, the Bank has evolved over the past 26 years to become one of Africa’s leading financial institutions with a unique reputation for innovation and excellence. Widely regarded as a Proudly African and Truly International Bank, GTBank has been the subject of case studies by Harvard Business School USA, Cranfield School of Management UK and other prestigious institutes of learning. The Bank has the long-term goal of becoming the dominant franchise in Africa, not just in terms of Return on
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Equity or Cost to Income ratio, but absolute profitability and balance sheet size. The bank pursues this goal through a consistent panAfrican strategy of strengthening its leading position in the markets that it currently operates whilst expanding the GTBank franchise in other high growth African markets.
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GTBank has an actively engaged online and social media audience comprising millions of individuals across our channels. Over 1.1 million visitors monthly
Over 14 million views
Over 13 ,000 businesses
Almost 4 million followers
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Over 650,000 followers
Almost 80,000 followers
Over 2.5 million views
Over 400,000 followers
Over 40,000 followers
RECENT INTERNATIONAL AWARDS Euromoney Awards for Excellence Best Digital Bank in Africa (2016) Best Bank in Nigeria (2016)
African Banker Most Innovative Bank in Africa (2016) African Banker of the Year (2016)
The Financial Brand Top 100 Most Powerful Social Media Financial Brands in the World (#1 in Africa, #7 in the world)
Capital Finance International Awards Best Green Bank - Nigeria (2015)
CNBC Africa All Business Leaders Award West Africa Business Leader of the Year Segun Agbaje (2015)
World Finance (UK) Best Banking Group Nigeria (2015)
Best Banking Group in Nigeria
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Strengthening Small Businesses At GTBank, we believe we have a fundamental responsibility to ensure that our customers have all the necessary tools to navigate a complex global economy and achieve success in any enterprise. We use our strength, global reach, expertise, relationships, and access to capital to make a positive impact for our customers and invariably our communities. We are committed to growing the Small Business Segment (SME) in a sustainable manner, that is not driven by profits but focused on empowering our SME customers and growing our economy collectively. We work with our customers to create pathways to opportunities by supporting industrial and infrastructural development, financial capability and new market development, in a bid to promoting enterprise. This is the underlying theory behind our SME programmes, which support small businesses across our community network.
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GTBank Addressing the Value Chain in the Nigerian Fashion Industry
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Manufacturing & Production
Capacity Building
Creation of GTBank supported production hubs to improve output and production
Facilitation of specialized workshops to train and enhance capacity building within the industry
Fairs & Trade Shows
Media & Marketing
Retailing & Merchandising
Organization of seasonal events for stakeholders within the fashion industry
Provision of content production, publicity and advertising channels
Free online retailing & merchandising to millions of consumers
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THE WEEKEND Promoting Enterprise The GTBank Fashion Weekend is a consumer focused fashion exhibition and capacity building event that aims to promote enterprise within the fast growing Nigerian Fashion Industry. The inaugural event, which held on the 12th and 13th of November 2016, not only created visibility and trade opportunities for indigenous businesses, but also facilitated learning workshops for business owners and consumers. The GTBank Fashion Weekend brings together the most promising, talented and recognised fashion designers, brands and retail enterprises from across Nigeria and abroad to showcase trends and products to a large and diverse audience of consumers, press and industry enthusiasts. Positioned as a consumer focused event, The GTBank Fashion Weekend has become a meeting point for all stakeholders within the fashion community while presented retail exhibitions, master classes and run way shows.
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2017 Event Schedule
Saturday Day 1: Nov 11, 2017
Sunday Day 2: Nov 12, 2017
10am - 9pm
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
11am - 6pm
Master Classes
Master Classes
7pm - 10pm
Runway Shows
Runway Shows
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2016 Highlights
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VENUE
GTCentre (5,000m2 indoor event facility) Plot 1, Water Corporation Drive, Oniru Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria
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MASTER CLASS
Caroline Rush (CEO, British Fashion Council) delivering a Master Class on Brand Positioning
MASTERCLASSES The Fashion Master Classes provide fashion entrepreneurs the unique opportunity to learn from global industry leaders and experienced brands. The 2016 Master Class series covered topics addressing challenges and opportunities across the entire industry value chain including: Entrepreneurship, Growth & Profitability, Retailing, and several others. Hosts included GQ’s Dylan Jones, Caroline Rush of the British Fashion Council, International Designer Tracy Reese, celebrity makeup artist Sam Fine, and several others.
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Dylan Jones (Chief Editor, GQ Magazine UK) discussing Content & Commerce
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SAM FINE Celebrity Makeup Artist
CAROLINE RUSH Chief Executive. British Fashion Council
OKE MADUEWESI 20 CEO/Founder, Zaron Cosmetics
BIJOU ABIOLA Buyer, Major Retailer
BETHLEHEM TILAHUN ALEMU Founder, soleRebels
CLAIRE SULMERS Blogger, Fashion Bomb Daily
TRACY REESE Founder, Tracy Reese Fashion Label
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RETAIL EXHIBITION The GTBank Fashion Weekend provides a unique shopping experience with galleries of Fashion and beauty products sold by dozens of promising fashion designers and retail enterprises from across Nigeria. Consumers are provided the unique opportunity to shop the latest products at exclusive prices from a wide range of businesses including:
Ready to wear Footwear Jewellery & Accessories Hair & Beauty
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EXHIBITION
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At the heart of the GTBank Fashion Weekend is the Fashion Craft Village, which attracted thousands of onlookers. In collaboration with the Nike Art Gallery, the 2016 edition of the Craft Village brought together dozens of artisans from across Nigeria demonstrating the traditional art of fabric weaving, dying, bead making and much more.
CRAFT VILLAGE
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The GTBank Fashion Weekend provides a platform to celebrate both established and promising Nigerian Fashion brands. The event features fashion presentations showcasing talented up and coming designers.
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Fashion Presentations + Gallery
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Chidinma Obairi
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Chidinma Obairi
Toju Foyeh
Weiz Dhurm Franklyn
Style Temple
Style Temple
Chidinma Obairi
Style Temple
Style Temple
Toju Foyeh
Toju Foyeh
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Chidinma Obairi
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Style Temple
FASHION PRESENTATION
Style Temple
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THE RUNWAY
The Runway Shows intend to celebrate the convergence of global fashion design, by featuring prominent designers from across Africa and beyond. The 2016 GTBank fashion weekend, presented collections from Julien MacDonald (OBE, United Kingdom), David Tlale (South Africa), Ejiro Amos Tafiri (Nigeria), Adama Paris (Senegal), Taibo Bacar (Mozambique), and Lanre DaSilva Ajayi (Nigeria). 42
Taibo Bacar
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Ejiro Amos Tafiri
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Lanre
DaSilva Ajayi
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BACK STAGE
Julian MacDonald
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Backstage
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Promoting Enterprise
Founder, soleRebels
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STREET STYLE
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GTBank’s SME & CSR Foot Footprints
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Yinka Shonibare MBE, Wind Sculpture, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Photo © Jonty Wilde.
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GTBank Food & Drink Fair (2017) On April 30th and May 1st, 2017, GTBank held the second annual Food and Drink Fair in Lagos, Nigeria. The 2-day event, showcased Nigeria’s emerging food industry through an exhibition of over 140 small businesses displaying a wide variety of products, and a series of Cooking Master Classes. The inaugural edition of the GTBank Food and Drink Fair was headlined by Chef Marcus Samuelsson of the Red Rooster in Harlem, New York. However, the 2017 event, featured new talents such as Chefs Brian Malarkey of San Francisco’s Searsucker Restaurant, Kevin Curry of FitMenCook, and Raphael Duntoye of London’s Le Petite Maison, who returned to the Masterclass stage for the second year in a row. The event succeeded in attracting over 110,000 guests, record sales for the participating small businesses, and numerous positive reviews from across Nigeria.
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Recipes
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“Double Club” Collaboration with PRADA (2008) Located in London, in an old Victorian warehouse, “The Double Club” is a project curated by Fondazione Prada and conceived by Belgian artist Carsten Höller (Bruxelles, 1961). “The Double Club” offered a unique approach to entertainment and hospitality, as well as creating a dialogue between African and Western contemporary music, lifestyle, arts and design. It was not only meant to be a vibrant new public space in London but also an alliance of two cultures in real life that would facilitate culture cross-pollination without any attempt of fusion. The club consisted of three spaces: bar, restaurant and dance club. Artist Carsten Höller divided each area into equally sized Western and Congolese parts on a decorative and functional level, generating an inspiring perspective on double identity as well as on cultural coexistence. Moreover, the different sections were conceived and designed to represent the most challenging elements of both cultures, encompassing music, food and visual aesthetics.
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Artwork Š Meschac Gaba; photography Š Tate 2016
GTBank TATE Partnership (Since 2011) The GTBank and Tate Modern, UK partnership seeks to promote the value of African artists and art at local and international levels by bringing the work of young African artists to the attention of new audiences both in Africa and on an international level. Additionally, in 2010, GTBank sponsored an exhibition by renowned artist Chris Ofili at the Tate Britain gallery, exhibiting artistic expressions strongly rooted in African culture through an international and global context.
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Through the years, GTBank has supported the works of Yinka Shonibare, who continues to show the World the best Africa has to offer whilst giving credence to the evolving partnerships between the UK and Nigeria.
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Revolution kid (Fox), 2012 by Yinka Shonibare MBE Courtesy the artist and Collection Museum Beelden aan zee, Den Haag-Scheveningen (The Netherlands) Fabrication is proudly sponsored by GTBank
Yinka Shonibare London Art Exhibition (2013)
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Ndani TV is a contemporary African media brand, founded by GTBank in an effort to showcase the beauty of Africa to audiences near and far. Since 2012, Ndani has gained a significant online following and become a premium media brand recognized for telling contemporary African stories with very high production values. please visit www.ndani.tv for more information.
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www.smemarkethub.com
Launched in January 2014, the GTBank SME MarketHub is an online shopping platform that allows consumers shop from a wide variety of products and services across varying industries. The platform enables small businesses to sell and promote their products and services to online buyers both in Nigeria and abroad. The SME MarketHub also features a Groceries extension, which provides accessibility and delivery of supermarket products to retail audiences. Please visit www.smemarkethub.com for more information.
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Contact: Oyinade Adegite oyinade.ogunade@gtbank.com Guaranty Trust Bank plc Plot 635, Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. www.gtbank.com
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