News from members / other organizations / media
(keep yourself posted with the event calendar at www.decc.ee/events/upcoming-events)
January - June 2012
Danish presidency of the council of the European Union. More info from here.
January 19 - May 13
Danish Contemporary Art Exhibition SPATIUM (20.01.-13.05.2012) 5th floor at Gallery of Contemporary Art in KUMU - Art Museum of Estonia. Adult entrance 2,60 € per person, family ticket 3,20 €. Site-specific exhibition of 10 young, prominent Danish artists, who work in various media: video, sound, sculpture, painting and installation. The viewer can enjoy witty solutions and have an opportunity to rediscover the world of illusions.
January 27
Burns supper - a charity dinner organized by BECC. More information from here.
January 31
Deadline for applying for the "Export revolution: exporting sales managers' training program" meant for companies who need good exporting sales people and for young professionals who want to polish their international sales skills. More information from here.
February 2
Behind the scenes visit to Tallinn Stock Exchange. More information from here.
February 14
Seminar for executive women "The Power of Personal Brand" - most people don't brag well, coming off as self-congratulatory, egocentric or downright annoying. During this seminar we would like to find out which would be the right way to brag leaving people (clients, employees, bosses, etc) wanting to know more about you rather than less.. Further information from here.
February 16
Annual General Meeting of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Estonia.
February 16
Business Breakfast at Technopolis �lemiste on "Thinking models and tools of an effective sales manager". Speakers: Mr Heikki Koski (Trainers House) talking about how to achieve even higher goals with new techniques, and Mr Raul Vatsar (Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences) will talk about why and how to enter foreign markets and whom to hire to represent your product. Event is partly English, partly Estonian, but free of charge for anyone. More information from here.
News from Copenhagen Post
* Unhappy start of 2012 for Vestas. Vestas starts at all time low by laying off 1,300 employees in Denmark. With a goal to reduce its fixed costs by more than 1.1 billion kroner by the end of the year, Vestas announced this morning that it is laying off 1,300 employees at its facilities in Denmark. An additional 1,000 employees will be cut worldwide. In Denmark, 750 salaried employees will be let go along with 550 hourly workers. Vestas is closing a factory in the western Jutland town of Varde and trimming administrative services in Hammel, Varde, Lem, Ringk�bing and at the company's headquarters in Aarhus. The company blamed the layoffs on the global financial crisis and a sluggish market for wind turbines in the United States and said that support functions are being streamlined to adjust capacity to meet market demand. Read more.
* SAS to cut 500 jobs in Denmark and some 300 administrative positions worldwide. The cuts will affect the three Scandinavian countries "fairly evenly". SAS employs about 5,000 people in Denmark including 600 pilots and 1,400 cabin staff. The airline said the move is being made as part of its announced strategy to save 1.7 billion kroner this year, although expensive severance packages and reorganisation costs due to the cuts may prevent the airline from realising any savings until 2013. Read more.
* Danish companies bring jobs back home. While many companies continue to offshore manufacturing jobs in search of savings on labour and raw materials, a small but noteworthy countertrend has begun both here in Denmark and abroad. Numbers of Danish companies have discovered that manufacturing overseas is not the moneymaker they expected it to be and are now bringing production back home, reports metroXpress newspaper. One of those companies is T-Rex, which produces guitar effects pedals. Seven years ago, T-Rex moved its production offshore to China. Now the company plans to bring it 'inshore' back to Denmark.
2012 trade fair calendar in Denmark:
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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