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May 17, 2013

2013 Board of Directors Elections: Candidates Profiles & Voting Information

The Board of Directors consists of 17 member representatives elected by the membership. Directors serve two-year terms with no limit on the number of terms served.

AmCham members should receive either 5 (Corporate Patron, Corporate) or 2 (Small Business / Entrepreneur) ballots by registered mail between May 20-21, 2013. If you don´t receive the appropriate number of ballots, please contact Lucie Vrbova at lvrbova@amcham.cz.

The Candidates Profiles are available HERE.

May 10, 2013

Advertisement Spots in Year-End Report and Best Office publication available

Book the advertisement spot in our Year-end Report and Best Office publications that are going to be published in the near future. Details, conditions and the price list for advertising in any of those two publications can be found further in the text.

Yer-End Report summarizes AmCham´s past year´s activities and unveils plans for the next membership year.

Best Office is a publication composed of members´ case studies and best business practices that serves as an inspiration for various companies willing to increase their competitiveness and to improve their operational excellence.

To book the advertisement spot please contact Lucie Vrbová at lvrbova@amcham.cz, +420 733 685 318.

May 09, 2013

AmCham at the European Helicopter Show

Thanks to DSA invitation AmCham presents its mission and members at the European Helicopter Show at Hradec Králové from May 9th to May 11th. Innovation and business of AmCham members is represented by example of GE H80 airplane engine manufactured in the Czech Republic. You can meet there not only AmCham Patron member DSA , but also other Patrons Bell Helicopter or Honeywell at their stands.

May 09, 2013

Visit Europe guide_May-June 2013 issue

Look at the current issue of "Visit Europe" guide highlighting upcoming events and featuring special offers to the members of AmChams in region.
Below see this issue´s country leads you can join and attached the rest of the offers from Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Romania.

April 29, 2013

Innovative methods of learning languages - Industry Brief

 

AmCham is plannig series of industry briefs. See second issue HERE.

April 19, 2013

Survey Request: Competitiveness of Czech Economic Policy 2013

The AmCham is conducting its 2013 Survey on the Competitiveness of Czech Economic Policy. This survey intends to identify competitive advantages and disadvantages and will be used to craft a set of economic priorities to be presented to the government. It will be compared with the outcome of the 2009 and 2011 survey, as well as the results from three other CE countries- Croatia, Romania, and Slovenia- which are joining the report this year.

We would greatly appreciate if you would 1) complete the survey as soon as possible and 2) asking business partners to also complete it. The deadline for completing the survey is May 10.

April 18, 2013

BOOK THE SPACE in 2013 Best Office publication for your Advertisement

Reservation period for advertisement in the best office publication is open. Publication composed of members´ case studies and best business practices serves as an ispiration for various companies willing to increase their competitiveness and to improve their operational excellence. Check the last year´s issue HERE.

This year the overall title is FUTURE OF WORK. Issues of Mobile Office, Competitiveness, Cooperation of businesses with universities, Outsourcing, Finance, Diversity, Energy Conservation or New Technologies will be tacled.

April 18, 2013

2013 AmCham Board of Directors Elections - Nomination Period (April 19 - May 3)

AmCham opens nomination period for 2013 Board of Directors Elections. Representative of a member company in good standing can nominate himself/herself or another representative of a member company in a good standing.

Nominations are supposed to be sent between April 19 and May 3, 2013 to Weston Stacey at wstacey@amcham.cz and to Lucie Vrbová at lvrbova@amcham.cz in a copy.

All nominations must be written on company´s letter head.

April 10, 2013

Opening the grant competition One World, Many Voices

AmCham is opening a new call for projects that can obtain a grant from AmCham program One World, Many Voices. Thanks to many chamber members, that supported the program by purchasing a corporate table at the Thanksgiving Ball or participating in the Silent Auction, in 2013 we will allocate CZK 537,000 to community projects realized by pupils or students. Main objective of this program is increasing civic participation and involvement in local communities.

April 09, 2013

Czech Republic 2013/14_Advertisement spots available now!

AmCham would like to offer you to place your advertisement in one of the most popular AmCham publication Czech Republic Overview 2013/2014 (last year´s edition is available here). AmCham publishes a full color informative brochure about the Czech Republic annually. It includes the basic economic, political and geographic data, which provide the general overview about current situation in the Czech Republic. The distribution list includes AmCham members and their clients, government offices, non-governmental organizations, foreign embassies in the Czech Republic, Czech embassies abroad, other AmChams, CzechInvest and potential foreign investors. The closing date for this advertisement offer is April 30. Click on the title to see the offer.

March 26, 2013

How companies should handle automobile fleets? - Industry Brief

AmCham is plannig series of industry briefs. See first issue HERE.

 

March 12, 2013

Visit Central & Southeastern Europe guide_March issue

Look at the current issue of "Visit Central & Southeastern Europe" guide highlighting upcoming events and featuring special offers to the members of AmChams in region.
Below see this issue´s country leads you can join and attached the rest of the offers from Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Romania.

February 28, 2013

2013 best office publication – time for your submissions

AmCham committees have defined major trends which as well as other related aspects will be covered in this year´s publication issue. Overall publication theme for 2013 is Future of Work. Any member company can participate on the preparation of publication´s content – best through attending one of AmCham best office committees where all details are being discussed and proposals made. Final material will be published and distributed as usually in September 2013. Check the last year´s issue HERE.

February 28, 2013

Transfers to schools made from One World, Many Voices program

Already this week, AmCham transferred grants to 4 schools that are supported from the One World, Many Voices.7 more grants will be transferred in March.
AmCham members continue donating books for school library in Hlavečník. This small school will build up a library not only for school kids but also for their parents and local inhabitants. AmCham will collect books by March 11 and we expect to have more than 200 books.

All the news about the One World, Many Voices program can be found on the new Facebook page www.facebook.com/OneWorldManyVoices

February 21, 2013

E15 newspaper annex: Territorial special US-Czech commercial relations - discounted advertisement available

Mladá fronta daily newspaper E15 prepares the special annex on the topic: US –Czech international commercial relations that should be published on March 25, 2013. AmCham members can buy a promotion in this annex with a significant discount. Further details attached below. If you are interested in this offer please contact Lucie Vrbová at lvrbova@amcham.cz.

February 20, 2013

Thanks to new regional TOURISM GUIDE AmCham members can promote their events and offers abroad

Starting March 2013 AmCham Czech Republic in cooperation with its colleagues from Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia will publish and distribute a monthly online publication called Tourism Guide highlighting upcoming events and featuring special offers to the members. The publication will have one page for each participating AmCham and all members of participating AmChams will be eligible for the special offer. To get more information read the whole article or contact Lucie Vrbová at lvrbova@amcham.cz.

February 14, 2013

Donate books for school library

From its grant program One World, Many Voices AmCham will support 11 school projects. One of supported projects includes building up a school library that will be open to public too. The school is situated in Hlavečník, village near Pardubice. Since they need to get books for their library, AmCham members can donate some good books that school children and adults in the village would appreciate. Both Czech and English books are welcome and anyone, who would like contribute books, should contact Eva Chvalkovska at echvalkovska@amcham.cz

February 07, 2013

School projects looking for support

From its program One World, Many Voices, AmCham supported 11 school projects, that are beneficial for local community and bring together youngsters, public and local government.  There are 27 projects left, that could not be sponsored from the program and seek for support. Please see the summary attached and if you or your company would consider supporting some of them, please contact Eva Chvalkovská at echvalkovska@amcham.cz for more details.

January 31, 2013

One World, Many Voices - CZK 520.000 for 11 Czech school projects

Thanks to its members’ donations, AmCham will allocate CZK 520.000 among 11 Czech public schools through the whole country. The support goes to school projects that bring active youngsters together with local government representatives through realization of something beneficial for local community.

January 28, 2013

2013 Presidential Elections_Notes and Numbers

See attached Notes and Numbers from this weekend’s first direct Czech Presidential Election.

 

January 08, 2013

Questionnaire on 2012 Best Office publication - Increasing Companies´ Efficiency

In September 2012 the second edition of our publication Best Office – Increasing Companies´ Efficiency (electronic version available here) was distributed among our members.

Regarding to this publication we would like to ask you to take 3 minutes of your time and fill in short questionnaire. Thanks to this feedback we´ll be able to work on increasing the quality of the content and its focus.

Questionnaire can be filled in here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/best_office (in Czech language)

December 19, 2012

AmCham PF 2013 by Frantisek Dostalek

AmCham wishes all its members Merry Christmas and Successful year 2013!

December 05, 2012

38 school projects request a grant from AmCham One World, Many Voices program

On November 30, AmCham closed its call for projects for the grant program One World, Many Voices. AmCham received 38 applications from Czech elementary and secondary schools (click on the title to see their list). Commission of AmCham members will recommend projects that AmCham should support by a grant and the final approval will be given by the AmCham Board of Directors. Projects will be evaluated according to following criteria: purpose and objectives of the project, positive effect on the community; involvement of class/school, local community/public, local government or its office; long term sustainability of the project; value for money.

November 30, 2012

Photos from 2012 Thanksgiving Ball available to download

To see or download photos from this year´s Thanksgiving Ball please click here.

November 29, 2012

2012 AmCham Wings Award for Milena Jaburkova

At Saturday’s 20th Thanksgiving Ball, Milena Jaburkova of IBM was awarded the AmCham Wings Award. The award is given to the member who has personified AmCham’s commitment to make the community better. Milena is the type of individual who, when there is a problem, does not point fingers at others, but points it at herself and gets to work finding and implementing a solution. She challenges conventional thinking, she views “no” as the first step to getting to “yes”, and considers the government a piece to the puzzle, not a separate and alien power.
 

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