By RUSSELL RAY
The Tampa Tribune

TAMPA - An international retailing conference to help entrepreneurs develop business partnerships in Latin America will be coming to Tampa in November.

Tampa will be the first U.S. city to host the annual Retailers of the Americas Conference Nov. 20-22. More than 1,000 people, including representatives and business owners from 25 countries, are expected to attend the three-day conference.

"We've brought in other trade missions to Tampa, but not at this level," said Derek Lloyd, president of the Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce of Tampa Bay.

Other sites, including Miami, Orlando and New Jersey, were considered, but the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce chose Tampa because of its reputation as a major U.S. business hub and its large Hispanic population.

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