BCCP Celebrates Successful 2018 With Year-End Conference
The British Chamber of Commerce Philippines (BCCP) caps off another successful year with a year-end press conference and media appreciation luncheon at Dusit Thani Manila last December 11, Tuesday.
BCCP Executive Chairman Chris Nelson highlights the organization’s achievements this 2018. One of these is their Overseas Partner Delivery (OPD) where they assisted over 2,000 British companies through contact referrals, research, and introduction to the Philippine market, and their trade mission.
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Chairman Chris Nelson discussing the organization’s 2018 milestones
This year’s trade mission took place in Iloilo and was attended by 150 delegates, making it BCCP’s largest trade mission to date. The organization’s trade missions support the government’s 10-point socioeconomic plan, especially in promoting regional investment.
At the same time, BCCP also held a Philippine Economic Briefing with 250 business leaders from UK’s top companies in London which was followed by a roundtable discussion with Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez. The discussion was organized together with UK-ASEAN Business Council (UK-ABC) and was attended by 20 companies.
The organization also took part in Britain in Southeast Asia (BiSEA) Roadshows held in United Kingdom (UK) where they met with 165 British companies.
“We build up all our work by doing roadshows in the UK. We go across all various cities of UK to talk to companies… again to promote the opportunities and try and excite people of doing business here in the Philippines,” Nelson explained during the conference.
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BCCP is also an active supporter of Project Repeal, which aims to repeal redundant and outdated laws in the country. As well as the Ease of Doing Business Act and the Retail Trade Liberalization Act.
The organization plans to bring their trade mission to Clark in the first quarter of 2019. “We remain consistent, we remain the fact that we will try to do trade missions outside Metro Manila and we’re gonna continue with this activity,” Nelson furthered.
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The British Chamber of Commerce Philippines is a non-profit membership organization which aims to help businesses in both the British and Philippine communities. It has over 280 members today.
This is a press release. Minor edits were made prior to publishing.
