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Dear Members Following the interest and the number of responses generated by last year’s annual economic business survey and the opportunities for press coverage which followed, this year the DUCC will again gauge expectations for the future business climate in the UK and Denmark. The survey is anonymous and takes less than five minutes to complete and yet will allow us to improve on our future strategy and the services we provide you.
For your benefit the results of the survey will be published just before the event that will take place on the 1st of April 2009 at the Royal Danish Embassy. It is with great pleasure that I announce that in response to several requests from members, we have invited Mr Erik Nielsen, Chief Economist at Goldman Sachs to this event to share with us his views and expectations on the global economic downturn and to comment on the results of the survey. As we expect this evening to be extremely popular, members are advised to book in advance through info@ducc.co.uk.
The Annual DUCC Career development seminar will this year be a joint Nordic Junior event and will take place on the 3rd of March 2009 at the Radisson Portman Hotel. On behalf of the four Nordic Chambers of Commerce it will be chaired by the recently elected President of the Norwegian-British Chamber of Commerce. Among the speakers we look forward to hearing from: Kati Järvinen, Founder of Mindwind Ltd. Tove Selnes, VP of Human Resources, Opera Software ASA and Madeleine Ellis - Manager of Scan Jobs
Please welcome to the Chamber our newest members FOSS UK Ltd (Advisory Board), Bridgehead Group, Hospice Innovations and Madsen Restaurant.
Finally please welcome our new intern Nanna Christine Worsaae. Nanna took over from Trine in January and will stay with us until August this year, please see over for more information concerning the warm welcome that we extend to Nanna. Best regards
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Looking for tips to boost your career?
We would like to welcome all our members and
guests to Topics of the evening: The event fee is £10
for members and £20 for non-members including canapés and wine.
Please register at info@ducc.co.uk
KATI JÄRVINEN In addition to her degree in international business, she has studied work psychology, social psychology, adult education and coaching for many years. She is a Certified Progress Coach, Licensed Career Coach and an active member of professional coaching organisations internationally. Her passion is to support ambitious people to achieve their full potential by clarifyingtheir goals, empowering them to use their strengths and helping them to bridge the gap to their desired future. She firmly believes that we should all be filled with enjoyment by what we do and enjoys inspiring people towards success.
Her professional experience also includes working at Avinor and Aetat. Selnes holds a law degree from the University of Oslo, and is presently pursuing a Masters of Management degree at the Norwegian School of Management. In 1994 she was awarded an
Erasmus scholarship with Bologna University in Italy, where she studied EU and
international environmental rights. She is a noted and respected authority on
human resources management.
MADELEINE ELLIS Madeleine spent the last 10 years working in the Financial Services Industry in a Relationship Management capacity. She has worked with the likes of Citi Group, ABN Ambro and several Scandinavian Banks and Pension Funds including the Finnish Insurance company Ilmarinen and the Swedish Pension Fund AP1 to mention a few. She also has a very strong entrepreneurial side. Madeleine is clear about her belief that the relationships between employers and their people - how they treat each other and set expectations - drive performance and progress. Madeleine is determined that all of ScanJobs clients - companies and candidates alike - truly find the right match. She believes the
way companies and candidates interrelate, for better or worse, is
transforming and focusing on achieving the right business fit is key to
career and organizational success.
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Nordic Thursday Drinks at Scandinavian Kitchen
It is our pleasure to invite you to our Nordic Thursday Drinks at the Scandinavian Kitchen from 7.00 pm onwards.
The first drink is offered complementary by Scandinavian Kitchen for everyone on the guest list. They also generously sponsor canapés for the “early birds”.
Scandinavian Kitchen is the first Scandinavian café/deli/coffee shop in the UK. The shop is all about food- namely the basic staples of Scandinavian lunch food we miss from home.
We look very much forward to seeing you on Thursday 26 February 2009 at Scandinavian Kitchen
61 Great Titchfield Street W1W 7PP
Feel free to book a colleague as well!
Please register at info@ducc.co.uk by 24 February 2009
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FOSS is the world’s leading provider for rapid and accurate analytical solutions for the control of quality and production parameters in agricultural, food, pharmaceutical and chemical products, to the enhancement of our customers’ business. We design our products to suit the needs of the customer right through from laboratory to production and help manufacturers reduce product tolerances, increase automation and enable rapid results for faster product release and intake; ultimately improving efficiency and production.
FOSS UK Ltd
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Madsen is a new Scandinavian
restaurant on Old Brompton Road, South Kensington, which aims to bring a new
and refreshing food experience to London. The restaurant serves food inspired
by the Nordic cooking traditions and thus serving traditional smørrebrød for
lunch such as herring, smoked salmon, roastbeef with remoulade, and
frikadeller. In the evening the focus is on the more modern dishes such as pigs
cheeks cooked with Danish lager, plaice en cocotte with sautéed cabbage, and
braised lamb shank with thyme.
On Sundays Madsen presents the ‘store kolde
bord’/smörgasbord filled with traditional dishes from back home. For those
hungering for the traditional dishes we have Swedish Tuesdays, currently
offering “Pytt I Panna” and Danish Wednesdays serving “Stegt Flæsk med
persillesovs” as dish of the day both at £11.50.
The restaurant itself seats 60 including a
private dining room that can accommodate 12-14 guests and it can be reserved
for private events and parties. The room furthermore have AV facilities, which
makes it suitable for meetings and small business events. The team at Madsen is
led by Danish owner Charlotte Kruse Madsen and head chef Rene Madsen, also
Danish. Both have a long experience and love for the Danish kitchen which they
want to introduce to London.
You can find out more on our website www.madsenrestaurant.com
Reservations: reservations@madsenrestaurant.com
Madsen Restaurant
20 Old Brompton Road
SW7 3DL
Tel.: 0207 225 2772
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BRIDGEHEAD GROUP is an International Business Consulting, Venture Capital and Investment Banking organization focused on structuring, acquiring, investing and making valuable exits in small and mid-sized companies with strong teams, technology and marked position - With an ever increasing number of asset classes and financial services the global marketplace is constantly seeking a better way. -Bridgehead Group has devised a system that is the better way. - Our system combines industry leading strategic partners, investment funds and business management into a powerful new strategy that minimizes risk, increases speed to market and maximizes return for breakthrough ventures across the globe.
Bridgehead Group |
Hospice Innovation was founded 2002 in Denmark by Ann Maj Kruse and Ole Bang as the platform for their business activities concerning the hospice and palliative care areas - both in Denmark and elsewhere around the globe. Ann Maj Kruse and Ole Bang has been the dedicated prime force in establishing the Danish hospice society - where Ole Bang for several years held the position as chairman. Ann Maj Kruse has worked as a hospice nurse as well as participating in many recommendations, evaluations and projects. Together they have established a strong network within the hospice-sector - on a global basis.
Hospice Innovation deals with advisory in lectures, projects and reports for hospices and organisations with focus on palliative care and the hospice-work. Ideally the palliative hospice idea shall be broadened to a wider perspective of human dignity with focus on the whole family situation... at the best in peoples own homes.
Hospice Innovation sponsors the annually event World Hospice Day with a photo gallery of the world wide activities. The communication and teaming up of hospices in power-groups is also a major concern in order to share and educate best practices. This has been a new major focus - to evolve the future hospice through a heartfelt cooperation.
BANG | KRUSE | BK
INNOVATION
Parcelgaardsvej 7
· DK-4200 Slagelse
Tel. +45 - 40 20 51 03 · Free call via our website |
My name is Nanna Christine Worsaae and I am the
new Intern at the Danish-UK Chamber of Commerce. I started at the office 4
weeks ago and it has been 4 weeks of intense information flow and lots of
impressions to take in. I am, however, already certain that this opportunity
will provide me with a much greater insight to how the world of business
functions and thereby strengthen me when I return to Denmark in August to
commence my master in International Business at Copenhagen Business
School.
During the last couple of weeks, I have been
working on the new design of the website. And it has finally been launched! The
idea is to keep it simple and streamlined, and more importantly, easy to
navigate. Furthermore, we have decided to send out the DUCC Newsletter via
email, from which it is possible to click straight on to the articles you find
relevant – however, the newsletter will also be uploaded on the website in full
length.
Throughout the next five months at the DUCC, we
will be having various interesting events all of which have different themes.
Nordic Thursday Drinks are held last Thursday of every month at Scandinavian
Kitchen in corporation with the Finnish- and the Norwegian Chamber of Commerce,
which I look very much forward to.
And as to a more personal presentation; before
moving to this great city I lived in Vesterbro, Copenhagen, and studied at
Copenhagen Business School. I finished my Bachelors Degree in Business,
Language and Culture (former SPRØK) last summer and have previously lived and studied in Venezuela and Singapore.
This time I will be exploring and enjoying London and I look very much forward
to meeting all of you.
If you have any queries at all, do not hesitate
to contact me. I can be reached at: intern@ducc.cu.uk.
Yours sincerely
Nanna Christine Worsaae
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Scan Magazine
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Thomas
Winther, executive editor of Scan Magazine, is certain that there exists a
“Scandinavian Volkgeist” and that you can easily identify common traits and
express ‘how Scandinavian’ something is. Nevertheless, he emphasizes the
importance of delivering what has been promised as well as expecting to be held
accountable of one’s actions; ”We do not like charlatans, boasting or
bullish behavior and we distance ourselves from those people. Some would say
that it is ‘Janteloven’ but it is rooted in our rational approach to things and
honest way of doing business”
Scan Magazine was invented a
day Thomas Winther went for lunch and was wondering why all magazines were
aimed at all other expat groups except Scandinavians. He sold the idea to Mads
Petersen, who is now business partner and designer of Scan Magazine, and five
months after Scan Magazine was to be found on the shelves. Until the magazine
was entirely established, Thomas Winther had to keep his day job. However, he
was not able to answer business calls in his office, so he had to find a place
with complete privacy – a nearby graveyard. “I found this little enclosure
which held the grave of Daniel Defoe and there I could stand in relative
shelter. I guess it will be a good story one day that I started the Scan
Magazine ‘empire’ standing on the grave of the guy who wrote Robinson Crusoe.
The tourist guides hated me though”.
The
next step for Scan Magazine is to expand the distribution to other countries.
Ireland and Scotland are already well established and Germany is their next
goal. TW is optimistic about the future and concludes that they have “achieved
a lot more than they hoped for in their first half year of existence”. Scan
Magazine is a handy business resource for Scandinavian companies and
individuals living in the UK, since it is possible to find anything you need –
be it hotels, nannies, flight offers etc. It is sent on a named basis to all
business members of the Danish, Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian Chambers of
Commerce in the UK and it is a good medium to advertise in if you wish to
promote your business in the ‘Brand Scandinavia’ context.
Scandinavia
is not only ‘open minded’ and ‘free spirited’ but an actual brand; “We have
our own very special way of doing things and it is valued by business
associates and consumers all over the world. The Scandinavian spirit is
indeed well distributed across borders and Scan Magazine has almost one hundred
distribution points in the UK. “This is something the Scandinavian expat
community never had but always needed”.
To
read the newest edition of Scan Magazine click here
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26 February 2009 Nordic
Thursday Drinks, Scandinavian Kitchen
Career
Seminar: Joint Nordic Event at the Radisson Portman Hotel
1 April
2009
Economic
update and Financial Outlook 2009
15 April
2009
Johnny
Madsen exhibition at gallery Mews42
15 May
2009
20th AGM & Annual Dinner: Merchants Taylor’s Hall
11 June
2009
Joint
Nordic Event at London Stock Exchange
8 July
2009
DUCC Summer
Cocktail Party
18
September 2009
Energy
Seminar
28
October 2009
Danish
Design focus on Furniture “What is Danish Design and how can companies with
Danish
roots take
advantage of that brand”
18
November 2009
DUCC Press
Evening at the Royal Danish Embassy
11
December 2009
DUCC Annual
Christmas Lunch
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Radisson SAS Portman Hotel
25% to 55%. For any specific enquires contact info@ducc.co.uk
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Tove Selnes joined Opera in 2007 as VP of
Human Resources and has more than ten years experience in organizational
management. Prior to working at Opera, Selnes served as Director of Human
Resources at Eltel Networks where she was responsible for the development and
implementation of the organizations human resources strategy.
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