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www.glasgowchamberofcommerce.com INTERNATIONAL
CREATING GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
Glasgow Chamber is working hard to establish trade partnerships overseas to support member exchanges
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n his blog at the beginning of last year, our Chief Executive, Stuart Patrick, said: “Brexit has reminded us vigorously that we have an opportunity to use the international Chamber network so much more than we currently do.” Throughout 2017 we have been
working hard to do just that – establishing trade partnerships with like-minded chambers overseas to support member exchanges into each other’s markets. We have also been working closely with our colleagues across the Scottish and British Chambers of Commerce networks, our International Trade Partner – Clydesdale Bank, Glasgow City Council, the Scottish Government, Scottish Development International and Scotland Food and Drink to support businesses that have ambitions to grow internationally.
2017 – A Retrospective n In March we welcomed a delegation from the British-Slovenian Chamber of Commerce to explore the opportunities of doing business with Slovenia. n The Latvian Ambassador to the UK, Ms Baiba Braze, visited us in May for a roundtable discussion on exporting opportunities. n Then Glasgow Chamber President, Neil Amner, participated in one of the first network-wide overseas missions to China led by Scottish Chambers of Commerce in May. n Following on from our visit to Manhattan in November 2016, Jessica Walker, President of Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, met with us to learn more about the Glasgow and Scottish economies so that she could encourage her members to join a future business visit to Glasgow. n Milan featured prominently in our calendar of overseas activity in 2017. In June we met with representatives from the British Chamber of Commerce for Italy, the Confartigianato, the British Consul and the DIT for Italy to identify opportunities, contacts and sectors of interest which underpinned the delegation that we took back out
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to Milan in November for a series of business to business meetings and networking events. n In September we hosted a delegation from Stavanger Chamber of Commerce who were interested in our range of membership activities. n October was a very busy month for us. Our Chief Executive met with Berlin Chamber of Commerce to establish a partnership agreement and a programme of activity supporting the 2018 European Championships in partnership with Glasgow City Council and Glasgow Life. n We continued to work with the Scottish Business Network which has strong links in London, Brussels and San Francisco and our Chief Executive presented at an SBN event in London on the opportunities for investing in Glasgow. n A scoping visit to Nuremberg saw our Chief Executive and Deputy Chief Executive attend meetings with Nuremberg Chamber of Commerce, Nuremberg City Economic Development Department and with private sector firms in the area such as Siemens, Adidas and EY. n We ended the year with a visit from the President of the British-Indonesian Chamber of Commerce, Ainsley Mann, a proud Scot originally from Ayrshire who presented the massive opportunities for trading with Indonesia
and blew our minds with statistics including 270 million population, 17,000 islands and four time zones! n On top of all that we continued to deliver a wide range of international trade training programmes and events, as well as processing more than 13,500 international documents through our Certification and Documentation department. Phew! That was 2017. A clear demonstration of how we are using the international chamber network more than ever and that theme will continue through 2018.
Coming up in 2018 We will be taking a second delegation of Scottish companies to Manhattan Chamber of Commerce in early March for a series of business to business meetings and networking events. A visit from the Charleroi Chamber
of Commerce in Belgium is planned for the end of March. We will also be supporting Scottish Chambers of Commerce’s return trade mission visit to China which will take place in April. Having signed a MOU with the Italian Chamber of Commerce, we are working with the Turin Chamber of Commerce to take a delegation to Turin in the autumn around the time of the Salone del Gusto – a major food and drink exhibition. We will be maintaining our links with
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