Services

LEA offers a range of products and services to SMMEs through its branch network and key stakeholders

Pre-Start

Products and services offered under pre-start are largely client driven and allow the entrepreneur to understand their business map.

• Business Plan Development
• Monitoring and Mentoring
• Entrepreneurship Development & Training
• Start up facilitation
• Business Incubation

Access to Finance

LEA will facilitate access to finance through:

• Credit Facilitation
• Loan Application
• Financial Counselling
• Financial History Analysis
• Business Risk Analysis

Start-up Services

LEA will assist entrepreneurship to implement their Business plans by providing support through:

• Enterprise
• Development
• Monitoring and Mentoring
• Enterprise Evaluation and profiling
• Facilitation of product certification for Quality Assurance

LEA Products and Services Offering

Access to Markets

Market access is important for start up and existing business to become sustainable and to LEA offers:

• Market Access Development
• Government Procurement and Tendering
• Export readiness programme
• Export Capacity Development
• National & International Linkages
• Awareness on Local fairs and exhibitions facilitation
• Buyer/seller match making
• Export credit facilitation
• Export Insurance Facilitation

Business Growth

LEA believes that at this stage enterprises can explore different operational structures and financing with a view expanding to become large enterprises.

• Facilitating access to finance including:
• Equity financing
• Export facilitation
• Awareness Creation on Treaties and Trade agreements
• Customs and Excise Awareness.