The business forum “Promoting business partnerships with Switzerland”, organized by the Bulgarian-Swiss Chamber of Commerce (BSCC) in cooperation with Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) Stara Zagora, was conducted on June 14, 2018, in Park Hotel Stara Zagora.
Main objective of the Forum was boosting the building and development of business relations between Bulgarian and Swiss companies, where the event targeted companies, which are already part of the BSCC Partnership Platform, as well as other Bulgarian producers and service providers, who intend to work with Swiss companies.
Before the official launching of the Forum, the participants had the opportunity to visit Oskar Rueg Bulgaria EOOD 1Company, where the general manager of the enterprise Alexandros Voreopoulos, provided information about the operating activity of the company and presented the newly opened second production corpus.
The Forum was launched by BSCC Chairman of the Board, Mr. Boni Bonev, but the participants were also greeted by Krasimir Chervilov, Deputy District Governor and Oleg Stoilov, Chairman of the Board of CCI Stara Zagora.
The updated useful information on related to the Bulgarian-Swiss business relations issues, presented by the guest speakers – Eugen Peterhans, CEO, Howag Kabel AG, Switzerland, Howag Ltd., Bulgaria and Katalin Dreher-Hajnal, Senior Consultant Central Eastern Europe, Switzerland Global Enterprise, Zurich, Switzerland, as well as the information about the role of BSCC in establishing sustainable partnership relations between Bulgarian and Swiss comapnies, were the foundation for an interesting panel discussion during the official part of the event. In non-formal conversations during the reception (Apero), the participnts took the opportunity of networking in establishing new business contacts.
BSCC’s intention is that the Forum becomes a traditional annual meeting of BSCC partnership platform member-companies for presenting useful practices, sharing experience, realizing partnerships and establishing contacts among Bulgarian producers and service providers and foreign companies looking for partners in Bulgaria
The business forum “Promoting business partnerships with Switzerland” was supported by Alexandra Estate and CENTRY (a BSCC member).