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ITC (International Trade Center) 2011


BPW Business Members wishing to Participate as Sellers in a Women Vendors Exhibition and Forum with Leading Multinational Corporations in CHONGQING, CHINA 27 – 29 September 2011

There is an increasing demand for goods and services supplied by high-caliber women-owned businesses. Over 90% of Fortune 500 Companies have a supplier diversity program under which they actively seek to source from women. As sourcing is no longer local or national, this presents an enormous opportunity for women around the world to sell into global supply chains.   In response to the need to link buyers and sellers, the International Trade Centre (ITC, a joint agency of the United Nations and World Trade Organization), WEConnect International, the Chongqing Foreign Trade and Economic Relations Commission (COFTEC), BPW International, the China Association of Women Entrepreneurs, the International Women's Coffee Alliance, SPINNA, Quantum Leaps and other partner organizations are pleased to invite you to apply to participate in a global Women Vendors Exhibition and Forum.

What: Exhibition and Forum, including business meetings with buyers, plus site visits.
When: 27 – 29 September 2011
Where: Chongqing, China (population 32 million)
Why: Meet and do business with prospective buyers and/or suppliers in select sectors (note, all sectors are global, except agriculture, which is focused on China only):
  • Agriculture and Coffee
  • Automotive, Motorcycles and Spare Parts
  • Clean and Green Technology
  • Construction
  • Information Technology and Business Process Outsourcing
  • Textiles and Apparel
  • Trade Facilitation  (legal, investment, logistics, compliance, etc.)

There is no cost to attend this Forum but hotel and airfare are at your own expense and the attendees must be linked to a trade support institution, such as BPW International.


Register with BPW:
Please complete the 7 minute BPW Survey:   http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/517836/2e5549e94c7c

See this link for more information:
http://www.intracen.org/projects/women-and-trade/Global-Platform-for-Action-on-Sourcing-from-Women-Vendors/ and the BPW International website http://bpw-international.org/latest-news-top/bpw-news/1348-itc-international-trade-center-update


ITC (International Trade Center) 2011
Executive Director ITC - Patricia Francis and International President Elizabeth Benham renew MOU agreement.

BPW International is very proud to have had our partnership with ITC renewed at our Congress in Helsinki after the Executive Director Patricia Francis and the ITC team completed the plenary session on Sunday June 19th, 2011 Entitled : ACCESS TRACK PLENARY: Global Supply Chain

Smart Economics: More Women In The Global Supply-Chain

The BPW International initiative on getting more women into the global supply chain is going strong and we are preparing to have a delegation of at least 20 of our business members going to the Women Vendors Exhibition and Forum Tuesday, 27 September 2011 - Thursday, 29 September 2011 in Chongqing, China.


Patricia Francis

An award-winning leader and business facilitator, Patricia Francis joined the International Trade Centre as Executive Director in June 2006. Under her leadership ITC’s annual project implementation grew from US$ 25 to US$40 million with larger, multi-year, multi stakeholder programmes now over 50% of the portfolio. Performance management, the mainstreaming of gender, environment, poverty and strategic partnerships to achieve “Export Impact for Good” are changes championed by Mrs. Francis’s administration. Before ITC, Mrs. Francis was President of Jamaica Trade and Invest when Jamaica attracted more than US$5 billion in foreign direct investment. A member of Jamaica’s Cabinet Committee for Development, she was also twice President of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies, chaired the OECD’s Caribbean Rim Investment Initiative and the China-Caribbean Business Council. She is a member of the Advisory Board of IESE graduate school of business and a member of the Eminent Persons Group reviewing the Commonwealth.




Global Platform for action team

Meg Jones , Rupa Ganguli , Virginia Littlejohn, Liz Benham  (Click on name to see the Bio)

Downloads:

GLOBAL PLATFORM BROCHURE
WOMEN VENDORS EXHIBITION AND FORUM

BPW Members Business Survey :

Opportunities are available from the Multinational Corporations wishing to do business with women owners.

That means our BPW business members!  If you are a business owner complete the 7 minute online survey






Be Part of the BPW Int. and Int. Trade Centre Business & Trade Survey

New day for BPW and U.N.Women:
BPW International signs MOU with ITC on historic day for women

2010 UN Headquarters, NY, 2nd July 2010  BPW International and the International Trade Centre set up close cooperation to explore opportunities to assist women business enterprises access new markets and business opportunities on a historic day where the United Nations General Assembly voted to set up a body that will seek to improve the situation of women and girls around the world.
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Do you run your own business, employ other women and produce a product/ or service?

The Executive invites all Federations/Associate Clubs and clubs in developing, least developed and transitional economies to be part of the latest BPW-ITC Business and Trade Survey. “This survey will allow us to empower members at the grassroots level by providing access to new and exciting markets and business opportunities.” said Freda Miriklis. If you run your own business, employ other women and produce a product/or service, we could be opening new and exciting markets to you!

Freda Miriklis, 2nd Vice President

Take advantage of this opportunity:

BPW International Member Survey 2010:   English  |  Spanish  | French

BPW International Business Report Form 2010:   English  |  Spanish  | French



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