British Polish Chamber of Commerce

The BPCC together with the American Chamber of Commerce in Poland and the Association of Business Service Leaders (ABSL) concluded the business year in Lower Silesia with an elegant cocktail business mixer. The End-Year Networking took place on 9 December in Wrocław's Doubletree by Hilton hotel.

23 listopada w nowoczesnych wnętrzach Concordia Design w Poznaniu odbyło się śniadanie biznesowe IGCC: International Chambers Round Table poświęcone zielonej energii i transformacji polskich miast na przykładzie Poznania.  

An ambitious event – blending online speakers and audience with live presentations, a roomful of guests and remotely-moderated live panel discussion – the third British-Polish IT Forum proved how much can achieved at a distance.

The BPCC’s first Female Leadership Forum took place on 28 October 2021, live from the Warsaw headquarters of Standard Chartered Global Business Services Poland, and streamed to a nationwide audience. The aim of the event was to spotlight the experience of women leaders in business, to appreciate their input into the economy, and to see what more can be done to raise female participation in management structures.

Despite the BPCC’s busy webinar programme, delivering quality business insights to audiences across Poland and the UK, there has been a strong demand for live events. The sight of a full house at the Doubletree by Hilton in Wrocław for the regional real-estate forum there proves that face-to-face networking will never be entirely substituted by online events!

Wrocław – Poznań – Warsaw – Kraków; four Polish cities with concentrations of British business, were the four venues for the BPCC’s cycle of face-to-face business mixers, organised as a welcome return to physical meetings after a year of lockdown.

From 1 October, the UK government is introducing new border checks on animal and plant products; these will make export of food from Poland to the UK more complicated. This webinar, held in Polish for Polish food exporters, looked at what the new border checks would mean, and how to prepare for them. Michael Dembinski, the BPCC’s chief adviser, opened the meeting saying that for the most determined exporters, prepared to deal with all the new paperwork, there would be many new opportunities. As exports from western European trade partners falter, more and more companies are withdrawing from the UK market, and so gaps appear that Polish firms could enter. Having the right strategy and marketing plans is key, he said.

Po pandemicznym czarnym roku 2020, 10 września 2021 r. do Wrocławia nareszcie powrócił International Oktoberfest. W tym roku, już po raz szesnasty, odbył się na świeżym powietrzu w Toya Golf and Country Club, malowniczym i urokliwym miejscu po północnej stronie miasta. Wydarzenie zostało zorganizowane przez Brytyjsko Polską Izbę Handlową (BPCC), Polsko-Niemiecką Izbę Przemysłowo-Handlową (AHK Polska) oraz Skandynawsko-Polską Izbę Gospodarczą.

The 2021 series of Nice to Meet You Again mixers came to a conclusion in Kraków on 9 September. The event, held at the Mercure Hotel, was sponsored by real estate agents Savills, recruitment firm Michael Page and Wyborowa Pernod Ricard.

An annual fixture in the BPCC's social calendar, pandemic notwithstanding now for the second year in a row, is the end of summer-holiday mixer at Warsaw' Mamaison Hotel Le Regina. Thanks to our partners, Hays Poland and Pernod Ricard, members and guests could make the most of the fine late-summer weather and open-air courtyard to mingle safely, chat and swap business cards.