Dear Members and contacts,

The autumn season has been very sucessful with well attended events. Our lunches have featured interesting guest speakers on a wide range of topics: the current financial outlook, transport recommendations for Denmark and corporate governance. Our social events, organized around a British modern artist Duggie Fields and an English theatre production “the Road to Mecca” also proved popular.

There have also been a couple of new initiatives taken:

We held our first ever “on the way home” meeting in Jutland in October, hosted by our member and Gold Sponsor, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and arranged in cooperation with our partners on the Climate theme, Copenhagen Climate Network. It was good to meet both existing and new contacts in Århus and we look forward to continuing our activities outside the capital.

“Charlie’s Bar meetups” also got off to a good start and will become a regular feature in the New Year, adding a more informal element to our activities for the network. The “Brewer” from St Austell’s was very entertaining and informative about his beers and they tasted good too! We are changing the meetup day to Thursdays in the New Year, partly because feedback indicates this is preferable as closer to the weekend but also because the Copenhagen Post has offered to make free copies of the new edition available at these occasions and there will sometimes be a chance to “Meet the Editor” and give him your views.

There are many interesting events and things planned for members in 2009, so keep your eye on the website so you don’t miss out.

Forthcoming Events

Social:

Wednesday 3 December 17.30 – 18.30  Meetup at Charlie’s Bar

Our member and Gold Sponsor Chevron Denmark                                    
is kindly supporting this new initiative by providing a free drink for members on this occasion.

Tuesday 16 December 16.30 – 19.00 Christmas Reception
Held jointly with UK Trade and Investment, at the British Embassy.    

Members and invited guests only. Please sign up if you haven't already done so.

Lunches:

Thursday 11 December 11.45 – 14.00 approx

Commissioner Mike Bowron from City of London Police on “Current thoughts and initiatives on keeping London safe”

This event is being held jointly with the                   

We are pleased to announce that James P Cain, USA Ambassador will be signing his new book “ Amerikaneren” in the conference suite lobby from 11.15 – 12.00. Please see more information here.

Friday 23 January 11.45 - 14.00 approx

Søren Henriksen, formerly Dansk Erhverv /Danish Chamber of Commerce on “The Danish model in global competition – can Europe compete in a global economy?”

Our first event early in the New Year will be hosted by Founder member Arla in Jutland on the topic “Crunch time in the Dairy Industry”

Other topics coming up later in the year are:

“Who needs an office?” with our member Regus

“Women on Boards” in collaboration with Copenhagen Business School

“Energy Scenarios” with our member Shell jointly with other Chambers of Commerce

“Developments in the financial markets” joint event with Nordic Capital Markets

“Healthiness in the business world” with Kostkompagniet

News

• Our British members will be interested to hear that SuperBest in Hellerup (Rotunden) is selling a lot of the goodies we miss from home - Marmite, Cadburys chocolate, Fray Bentos Steak and Kidney puddings, Birds custard powder, and much more. They are also going to have mince pies and Christmas puddings!!!

• “TeaterMuseet i Hofteatret” the Theatre Museum which is located at the Court Theatre behind the Danish Folketing is offering half hour tours in English. Why don’t you take a look at this exciting source of history? See http://www.teatermuseet.dk/?sid=6 for more information.

New Members

We are pleased to welcome the following new members who have joined us since the summer:

Corporates:

	Ian Scott-Bell
	Dan Terkildsen

Small Business:

	Thorkild Westergaard
	Anna Moll
	Lars Landberg
	Alex Trembath

Individuals:

Kersi Porbunderwalla	Controllers
Eyvind Sandal	Jysk-Fynsk Kapital A/S
Gregory Michael	DHL Express (Denmark) A/S
Jens-Ole Nielsen	ADNORDIC
Niels Skovdal	Krüger A/S
Arthur Buchman	NLP World
Jens Nyrup	Resource Consult
Nina Vad Holtum	The Language School
Peter Marcel Toft	Kresten Foged A/S, PKF International
Paul Morrison	Bizzcom
Dame Damevski	Invest in Macedonia
Jan Hjelm	PA Consulting A/S
Stefan Mogensen	SprogXperten
Mark Payne	CFO Services

New offers to members on the extranet

Please login to the extranet (top right menu on the website) to see further details of:

• Corporate subscriptions to the Copenhagen Post
• Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winner in Economics
• Dansk IT course in English “Commercial and Leadership skills for IT professionals”
• Regus Business World card

From the Secretariat

• The end of our financial year is approaching very fast, so if you have an outstanding BCCD-BIU invoice – please pay it very soon!

• You can find and download the PowerPoint presentations or other material which our speakers have used  on the website under “past events”. There is a “click through spot” on the right hand side of the home page.

• We have created a “BCCD group” on LinkedIn the online network for professionals.  This will be another tool for members to keep in contact with their BCCD network and allow online discussions etc. within the group. To join you need to be a member of BCCD-BIU and have a login to LinkedIn.  Once you login to LinkedIn, enter the “groups” option and select the groups directory. Search for British Chamber of Commerce in Denmark and apply to “join the group”. Your application will be approved in a few days.

Kind regards,

Penny Schmith
Administrator

	Sporting, cultural and social events: Meet ups at Charlie's Bar Join us for an informal meet up with other Chamber members over a pint.
	Past Events: Christmas Reception 2008 Very sorry! Event oversubscribed.
	Past Events: Commissioner Mike Bowron City of London Police Current thoughts and initiatives on keeping the City of London safe 11.12.2008