Ida Backlund, CEO of Rapunzel of Sweden, and Signhild Arnegård Hansen, owner of Svenska LantChips, are Sweden’s IWEC awardees 2013, a prestigious mentorship program encouraging women business leaders to grow their international businesses. International Women’s Entrepreneurial Challenge (IWEC) is this year held in Lima, Peru, on Nov 11-12. Watch the interview with IWEC Awardee Ida […]
To test the Pakistani energy market’s appetite and willingness to use Swedish green technologies, Chamber Trade Sweden (CTS) and the Swedish Embassy in Pakistan organised a series of seminars in Pakistan earlier this year to promote Swedish green technologies, products and expertise. The seminars attracted a large number of public and private sector organisations and […]
CTS signed a partnership agreement with Namibia on December 14, piggybacking on the cooperation which already exists with South Africa and Botswana. Women’s Economic Empowerment is the main priority for this partnership involving Namibia Employer’s Federation and Women’s Action for Development. We also look forward to promoting regional trade between our southern Africa partners during […]
The Chamber Academy network met at December 14 for a session to share information and experience from the projects that have taken off throughout 2012 in Sub Saharan Africa, Iraq, Pakistan and Indonesia. Invitees from the foreign embassies in Sweden mingled for experience sharing and were given the possibility to bake Swedish ginger bread for […]
During Chamber Trade Swedens visit in Indonesia early December the final details to the Sweden-Indonesia Partnership Programme were laid down. The programme will for 2013 focus on increasing trade within the textile and interior decorating sectors which are all part of the creative industries where SME companies are especially active. Nina Turisnah from Apindo explains […]
Maud Spencer, CEO of Svalson, and Pernilla Stålhane, CEO of Pallmax, were the first Swedish business women to become part of the IWEC mentorship program. IWEC, International Women Entrepreneurial Challenge, was founded by a team of chambers of commerce around the world to inspire women to grow their international businesses. The mission of IWEC is […]
With the Swedish South African Partner Driven Chamber Program as a base, Chamber Trade Sweden entered into a strategic cooperation with the Cape Chamber of Commerce. With the Swedish South African Partner Driven Chamber Program as a base, Chamber Trade Sweden entered into a strategic cooperation with the Cape Chamber of Commerce and the non-profit organization Mhani Gingi, that […]
Chamber Trade Sweden ran its second challenging and exciting 2 day workshop in Erbil in northern Iraq, September 9-10, on private sector development, policy advocacy and women’s economic empowerment on the agenda. The workshop was held together with the Private Sector Development Center in Iraq which organizes the chambers of commerce and other member based business […]