The “Helwa Ya Baladi” Family Shopping Festival Kicks off in Homs

Homs, (ST) – More than 25 national companies participated in the activities of the fifth session of the “Helwa Ya Baladi” family shopping festival organized by the Qamar Company for Exhibitions and Conferences in cooperation with the Homs Chamber of Commerce.

The one-week exhibition, which is held at the Officers Club in Homs  includes a wide variety of commodities  including  various types of food products, detergents, clothing, perfumes and the daily supplies for citizens.

In a statement to SANA, the head of the Homs Chamber of Commerce, Muhammad Eyad Derraq Al-Sebaei, indicated that the festival is comprehensive in terms of the diversity of the products that meet the citizens’ needs at encouraging prices, the wholesale price, which in turn increases the turnout of visitors and consumers during the days of the festival.

Al-Sebaei went on to say that, the aim of this festival is to provide basic commodities to citizens and encourage the participation of the national productive companies owners in meeting the citizen’s daily needs at the lowest cost.

“The Chamber of Commerce management plans to activate markets and support all exhibitions and shopping festivals in order to achieve economic and social stability,” Al-Sebaei   added.

Ghufran Ayahsh, organizer of the festival and director of the Qamar Company for Exhibitions and Conferences, pointed out that the festival’s success in its previous sessions and the benefit it had achieved for both the producer and the consumer as it canceled the mediation between them encouraged to continue holding this festival.

Ayahsh hoped that this year’s festival would be an incentive for the rest of the productive companies to participate and provide the consumer with their products, noting that what distinguishes the festival for the current session is the participation of ten governorates, with discounts of up to 30 percent.

The participants in this festival confirmed that their participation contributes to identifying their products and marketing them to citizens at competitive prices, as well as stimulating the economic dynamic as they sell their products with discounts of up to 30 percent during the festival.

The festival visitors expressed their satisfaction at the existence of a comprehensive and integrated basket of basic commodities for daily living necessities at favorable prices that meet the needs of citizens.

Amal Farhat