Lunches
Please remember the two changes for the May lunch: firstly, it will be held on THURSDAY, 18 May, and not Friday as usual, and secondly, it will take place in TIVOLI and not in the Imperial Hotel. Having said that, it promises to be a special event with lunch in the Nimb Restaurant and Lars Liebst talking about Tivoli and new thinking. Many people have already signed up at www.bccd.dk for this lunch. The event begins at 12.00 noon at Nimb Restaurant, Bernstorffsgade 5 (opposite the central train station).
Details of lunches for the rest of 2006 are put on the website as soon as they are known. Members can then book the dates and line up their guests in plenty of time to meet on the third Friday of the month in the Imperial Hotel from September 15.
We are grateful to Niels Boserup for his talk at the lunch on Friday 21 April, “Changes in the Airline industry. Travelling will never be the same again”. He presented an interesting perspective on the development of the airlines (in particular the low price airlines) using Copenhagen Airport, and he provoked a lot of questions from members and their guests.
On Friday 16 June, we look forward to the Summer Lunch in the garden of Founder Member Allan Eimert’s European Search Group, to whom we are grateful for hosting the event again this year. Please sign up at the website. We expect beautiful weather this year so that we can enjoy the garden and the splendid lunch even more than we did last year – when we had torrential rain.
The New Ambassador
The New Ambassador
The New Ambassador
The BCCD welcomes the new British Ambassador to Denmark, HE David Frost. On Friday 5 May 2006, he presented his letters of credentials to Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II. (Photo taken by Thomas Borberg).
Sterling Event
Sterling Airlines really entertained us in grand style yesterday when BCCD was invited to visit them at the airport. Among other things, members took the controls of an aircraft (in the hangar) for a few moments. We also listened to a forward-looking and informal presentation from Almar Orn Hilmarsson, the CEO of Sterling, on “The Icelandic Way” and enjoyed a frank dialogue with him. (Photo taken by Gareth Garvey).
Forthcoming Events
The BCCD Golf Tournament sponsored by Ernst & Young
Professionals (with a handicap) and non-professionals (including beginners) are both invited to sign up now at the website for the tournament at the Copenhagen Golf Centre on Sunday 13 August. Perhaps someone from the British Embassy will win the BCCD Golf Trophy for a third time this year? We hope they will at least have excellent competition.
The BCCD Match Race
Preparations are going ahead for this new event in the BCCD calendar, in which six companies each have a crew of six on an 11.5 meter competition boat in 3-4 races against each other. The competition will be followed by a barbeque for crews and spectators and the event will be run by the Royal Match Race Centre.
The BCCD Ball
Please put Saturday, 28 October (the night the clocks go back), in your diary now and start collecting a table of ten or a smaller party together. Planning has begun and details will shortly be published on the website. Watch the web site for “early bird” ticket sales.
New Members
In May the BCCD welcomes:
SAS as a new Founder Member;
RSMplus,
KPMG and
AP Revision as new Corporate Members; and
Klaus Brund, Gaarn Thomsen & Partners and
Alistair Thomson, Assistant Press Secretary for the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen, as new Individual Members.
New Board Member
Brian Rasmussen has been co-opted to the Board. Brian is a partner in AP Revision and has joined the Board with a special responsibility for Finance now that Ian Peerless is no longer on the Board.
Web site
News items and up-dates are regularly put on the web site now. If you have any feedback for us, please contact Pam Pourzanjani at pp@bccd.dk or use the Extranet Forum.
John Mott
Executive Director
11 May 2006