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At a packed COBCOE gala awards ceremony at the prestigous RAC Club
in London's Pall Mall on 24 April evening the BPCC was awarded two
major awards by Sven Goran Eriksson, the England Football team coach.
photo: Martin Dawes
From left are: Sven-Göran Eriksson; David Thomas; Nancy Dell’Ollio and Howard Rosen, President, COBCOE
Over 90 delegates from 20 international chambers attended the ceremony.
The British Polish Chamber of Commerce was awarded for the second year
in succession the 'Best Chamber of the Year' Award and becomes the only chamber in the history of COBCOE to achieve this exclusive award.
The BPCC also was presented with a second award for 'The Best Membership Growth'.
David Thomas, BPCC Chairman, who flew directly from the BPCC's 3rd
Annual Conference and Exhibition to London to receive the awards
commented: 'On
behalf of the Board, the Executive and our entire membership it is
doubly pleasing for me to be in London this evening to receive these
two highly prestigious awards. It is confirmation of our strategy to
develop as a pre-eminent membership based business networking and
services organisation. The fact that COBCOE has broken with tradition
and presented the BPCC with the 'Best Chamber Award' for 2 years
running confirms the strategikc importance Poland has in Europe'.
photo: Martin Dawes
From left are: David Thomas; Vicki Guntern, General Manager, The
British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce; Catherine Le Yaouanc, General
Manager, Franco-British Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Wojciech
Sokół, BPCC Board Member (Tesco Polska). They are respectively holding:
The Best Chamber of the Year Award and Trophy; The Best Sponsorship
Achievement Award; The Best Single Event Award and The Best Membership
Growth Award
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Speaking on behalf of the Board of COBCOE, Howard Rosen stated: 'On
behalf of the entire COBCOE network and the adjudicating panel I would
like to take this opportunity of congratulating the BPCC. The British
Polish Chamber has set an outstanding example in terms of quality and
level of activity in the last year. They have also demonstrated strong
support for the development of COBCOE'.
The news of the awards was relayed live directly from London to the
Gala award evening at the 3rd BPCC Annual Conference and Exhibition in
Warsaw. Amid cheers and celebration Martin Oxley commented on the
announcement, 'It
is a fantastic and great achievement for us to win these two awards; it
is a credit to the professionalism of the BPCC team - it is a source of
immense pleasure for me to be able to celebrate this news at our Annual
Conference together with our members and international partners.'
Notes for editors:
COBCOE is an independent, non-profit making organisation representing
British chambers of commerce throughout Continental Europe. Acting as
an umbrella organisation, COBCOE works with member chambers to advance
international trade and business with the United Kingdom. As such,
COBCOE gives a voice to over 6,000 businesses from all sectors of trade
and industry involved in business with the UK. COBCOE aims to protect
and promote the interests of our constituent chambers - and their
business members - through representation, cooperation and trade
stimulation. To do this, COBCOE liaises closely with governments and
organisations to ensure that our members' needs and concerns are addressed.
For details please visit: www.cobcoe.org.uk
The COBCOE Chamber of the Year Award is an annual award which is
presented to the best British Chamber of Commerce in Continental
Europe. It recognises outstanding performance in the promotion of trade
and investment, representation of British business interests in Europe
and innovation of activity.
The BPCC is the leading international chamber of commerce in Poland.
Its patrons are BAE Systems, BP Polska; CMS Cameron McKenna,
GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC, Moore Stephens Smoczynski & Partners,
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Provident Polska and Tesco. With offices in
Warsaw (headquarters), Bydgoszcz, Kraków, Łódź, Tri-city, Wrocław,
Katowice, and London; and representation in in northern and eastern
Poland and northern England this year, the Chamber has broad
geographical coverage. As well as organising regular seminars,
workshops, business breakfasts and business mixers in all the above
cities, the Chamber holds its Annual Conference and Exhibition, the
biggest and most important UK-Polish business event of the year,
bringing together hundreds of companies from both countries. The BPCC’s
website, the biggest source of information in English about doing
business in Poland, and in Polish about doing business with the UK.
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