March 2007 Newsletter

Forthcoming events:

• "View from the Top" Thursday 10 May 17.00 - 20.00 

Come and see the spectacular view of Copenhagen from the top of the Codan building and then settle into a meeting in English where your questions about the essentials of setting up, establishing and doing business in Denmark will be answered.  This BCCD event is for prospective, new, small or medium-sized enterprises and for individual business people who are either getting started in Denmark or just want to enhance their chances of acheiving their vision.

Codan will host the event and join with other Founder Members, DLA Nordic and Ernst & Young to form a panel of experts who will set out some of the dos and don'ts and answer your questions on insurance, legal, accounting and taxation issues.

Further information is available on the website.  

• Summer Garden Party Friday 15 June 2007

Allan Eimert, Managing Partner of Founder Member, The European Search Group, will once again sponsor an additional lunch event in his garden, before the summer break. "The Band has been booked!".

Members will be invited to attend but numbers of guests will be restricted. 

• The Ernst & Young Cup 2007, BCCD Annual Golf Tournament Sunday 17 June 2007

This year’s golf tournament will be taking place on Sunday 17 June at Helsinge Golf Club and will once again be sponsored by Ernst & Young. Helsinge golf course (http://www.helsingegolf.dk/) has matured into one of North Zealand’s most attractive and challenging 18 hole courses, set around the old windmill “Pibemølle”.

As numbers will be limited, we encourage you to contact BCCD as soon as possible if you wish to participate. You can register as an individual or even better, put together a team of 3-4 players from your company or invited guests. All those with a DGU card or equivalent registered handicap will be able to play on the 18 hole course and will be offered the chance to join a “golf clinic” with the Club’s pro on the driving range, before “teeing off”.

There will also be an opportunity for beginners (those without a registered handicap) to participate. The club’s golf pro will provide them with a full introduction to the game of golf and some instruction before they go out and play 6 holes on the “par 3” course.

The cost  will be DKK 650 including moms, per player (including green fees, equipment for beginners, lunch with a drink and coffee plus prizes).

Further details will be available later on the website.

• Autumn Ball 2007 Saturday 27 October 

The Ball will once again be held at the Odd Fellow Palæ in Bredgade, Copenhagen this year.

Please put the date in your diaries and begin thinking about who you will invite as guests to this glamourous evening. Planning is already well advanced for new features and the entertainment for the occasion, which is BCCD's highlight of the year for members and guests alike. 

Further information and details of how to order tables and tickets will be available on the website shortly.   

Past Events: 

In 2007 we have had lunches and events with very interesting speakers on a range of topics: Thomas Kluge about Portrait Art, James Cain on entreneurship and innovation, Søren Gade on the role of business in modern Defence and Dr Branca about obesity. Details of most of these will appear on the website.

A key event was the Dinner for Founder Members and other corporate guests in February, co-hosted by our patron David Frost, British Ambassador. Our guest speaker Mark Gibson from DTI outlined some developments in the UK and made no secret of the importance he attaches to the role of Chambers of Commerce around the world. BCCD used this occasion to launch its new sponsorship scheme, which has been well received by Founder and others. Full details of the scheme will be found on the website very shortly.  

Awards:

• the HBH Marketing Award 2007

Member Graham Tully of GT Translation is involved in a project ( the Cruise Baltic project), which has recently received Denmark’s top marketing award. 

As part of the project, leading Danish advertising agency Bergsøe4 has produced an impressive 40+ page brochure to promote the diversity of delights that await tourists to the region, with Graham Tully attached as freelance resource to finalise all text input to the brochure.

The award is given annually to one person, organisation or public employee ”which in its marketing of a product or an idea has made itself especially noticed via a well thought-out analysis and creative strategy, and where an original combination of thoughts, words and pictures has created a unique dialogue between the sender and receiver. It is a further condition that the winner has shown a high ethical standard, both in its business dealings and marketing.”

Instigated three years ago, the Cruise Baltic Project today embraces 19 destinations and 35 partners around the Baltic Sea, with more destinations poised to come on board this dynamic, ongoing project.  

• the Edison Prize 2007

Member Patrick Hulsen, Managing Director of Daintel informed us that his company was nominated this year as one of Denmark’s ten most promising IT companies in the competition for the Edison Prize 2007. The competition is organised by Computerworld in cooperation with the IT University to find the stars of Denmarks digital sector. 

Appeals:

I am helping the young students of Christianshavns Gymnasium to get on their feet again after the school was vandalised in the beginning of March, during the “Ungdomshuset” events. I therefore appeal to fellow members of BCCD to help with donations of either money to the fund which has been set up for rebuilding, or with items such as computers or furniture etc.

I believe, and I hope other members will agree, that it is important to show these young people that we help each other in this society.  

Please contact me by phone or mail and I will provide you with the information that you need to give donations to the school. 

Thank you very much, 

Elise Møller, Managing Director, EM GROWTH 

Tel:        +45 4580 5823

Mobile: +45 2963 7577

Fax:      +45 4580 5873

• Request from our Guest Speaker in March, Dr Francesco Branca, WHO European Regional Office

The health and nutrition of infants and young children in Tajikistan is a major concern for the country human and economic development. Although acute malnutrition is no longer hitting large sectors of the population, it is still present in some deprived areas, while chronic malnutrition is still highly prevalent (21%) and iron deficiency anaemia was reported in 38% of the children under 5 in 2003, thus affecting their health and mental development.  

Child malnutrition results from a combination of reduced food availability, child morbidity and poor child care. While infant nutrition has received attention and the promotion of breastfeeding is showing some initial success, there is a need to improve the nutrition of young children, through actions aimed at the improvement of the availability, affordability and quality of food products suitable for this age group, as well as to promoting their use. 

WHO is engaged in the improvement of infant and young child nutrition in Tajikistan and is supporting the distribution of micronutrient preparation for in house fortification of foods, the production of fortified bread and biscuits in local bakeries, the establishment of women's groups to promote the distribution of fortified foods and in house fortificants and to provide information to mothers and caretakers about healthy diets for young children.

Donors are welcome to support this initiative and further information can be obtained from Dr. Francesco Branca on e-mail: fbr@euro.who.int

Membership:

We are pleased to welcome the following who have joined us recently:

Rambøll Denmark A/S as a corporate member.

Their BCCD member contact is Robert Arpe at: roa@ramboll.dk

PHJ Glas & Klima A/S as a small business member.

Contact Allan Henson at: ahinst@phj-glas-klima.dk

Deducta has upgraded their membership from individual to small business member.

Contact Mark Lawson at: ml@deducta.dk

Flemming Karberg from Hans Just, Keith Gray from Oxford University Press, David McCormick and Bent Windahl as individual members.

We are looking forward to seeing them all at future events.

Secretariat:

• New BCCD Offices

From 1 April, BCCD will be moving to the Regus Offices in the city of Copenhagen (Larsbjørnsstræde 3, DK-1454 Copenhagen K).  The Office will be moved from Scanplan on Friday 30 March and we will be fully operational again in Regus from Tuesday 10 April. Messages can however be left during the week beginning Monday 2 April.  The Chamber’s main line and e-mail addresses will remain the same, but our fax number will be: +45 33 32 43 70

BCCD is extremely grateful to Scanplan and Christian Betting in particular for housing BCCD within Scanplan for the critical first years of the Chamber’s existence.  Scanplan has co-hosted a number of BCCD events and board meetings during that time, assisted us with special projects and made a wide range of services available to the Chamber.

As an additional goodwill gesture, Scanplan has donated to the Chamber all the Scanplan computer hardware that BCCD has been using and will continue to promote BCCD in its high gloss annual publication.

• BCCD bank account

Please ensure that you check and use the correct account number for us when paying invoices. Full details are printed on all our invoices. Our account number starts with the same four digits as our bank registration number.

Penny Schmith

Administrator

ps@bccd.dk

March 2007

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