News from members / other organizations / media
(keep yourself posted with the event calendar at www.decc.ee/events/upcoming-events)
Christmas events:
Dec 7, Estonian Swedish Chamber of Commerce (Stockholm)
Dec 7, American Chamber of Commerce in Estonia
Dec 8, British-Estonian Chamber of Commerce
Dec 8, Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Estonia
Dec 9, Danish-Estonian Chamber of Commerce
Dec 10, EELK L�una-Rootsi Kogukond Kopenhaageni pihtkond, Christmas ceremony at 14:00, Hans Tausen church (Copenhagen)
NB Monday, December 26th is an official holiday both in Denmark and in Estonia.
News from Copenhagen Post
* Carlsberg about to lay off 150 employees in Europe.
* Discussion started whether or not cash transactions should be charged in order to give incentive for consumers to use more digital payments.
* Business failures are predicting to cost 26.000 jobs for Denmark in 2012.
* Importing educated immigrants is a money maker for Denmark, shows a recent economic research. Immigration is not a death for Danish welfare system, the irony is that highly educated immigrants are in fact saviours. A highly educated foreigner is defined as someone with an advanced degree - a doctor, lawyer, PhD, MA, MBA or similar. An average highly-educated foreigner who comes to Denmark with a partner and children, stays for 8 years and puts an extra 1,9 mln kroner into the state's coffers - even after using schools, hospitals and other state benefits - the study concluded. They found that where the immigrant comes from does not make a difference, more important are their areas of expertise. Furthermore, an average new-born Danish baby will end up costing the state more than he or she contributes in cold hard kroner. Read more from here.
2012 trade fair calendar in Denmark:
January 14-15, 2012 "Wedding Exhibition" (Copenhagen, Bella Center). Read more click here.
January 20-22, 2012 "Ferie og Fritid i Bella" and "Golf i Bella" (Copenhagen, Bella Center). Holiday inspirations fair together with golf fair. Read more click here.
February 2-5, 2012 "CIFF 2012" and "CIFF Kids 2012" fashion exhibition. More info click here.
February 24-March 4 "International Boat Show". More info click here.
February 24-26, 2012 "Ferie for Alle" (Herning). Read more click here.
March 20-22, 2012 "Foodexpo 2012" (Herning). Read more click here.
April 13-15, 2012 "Hunting & Outdoor 2012" (Odense). Read more click here.
April 26-28, 2012 "Scandefa 2012" (Copenhagen) dentalfair. More info click here.
May 22-24, 2012 "Health and Rehab Scandinavia" (Copenhagen). More info click here.
May 30-June 1, 2012 "MonitorExpo 2012" (Copenhagen) fair on professional communication via pictures, sound and light. More information click here.
August, 2012 "Formland Expo 2012" (Herning). For professionals working in the field of decoration, home and office design, furniture, lightening, fabrics, handicraft products, gifts, souvenirs, etc.
September 2012 "Automatik 2012" (Herning). Read more click here.
October 9-11, 2012 "Copenhagen International Clean Energy Fair". Read more click here.
November 2012 "Food Pharma Tech" (Herning). Trade fair for machinery, packaging, and ingredients for food and pharma industry.
November 2012 "Agromek 2012" (Herning). Agricultural trade fair.
NB The list of trade fairs is to be updated constantly. In case you are interested to go to a certain fair with a group, please inform us and we try to assist you.
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