Letter from the President
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President’s report
About SACC-Philadelphia
History
Mission statement and goals
Services and activities
Sponsorships and memberships
Platinum sponsorship
Gold sponsorship
Silver sponsorship
Bronze sponsorship
Honorary membership
Individual membership
Student membership
Individual advertisement
SACC-P Update
Board of Directors
Officers of the board
Board of directors
Honorary board members
Internship program
Interns 2008
Daniel Bik
Malin Isaksson
Emelie Medin
Members and memberships
Introduction
Membership benefits
Memberships and dues 2008
Corporate members
Individual members
New members 2008
Events 2008
Introduction
Presentation of events 2008
Evaluation of past events
Upcoming events 2009
Financials 2008
Introduction
The year in detail
Future
Thanks to our sponsors,
partners and members
Sponsors 2008
2008 ended in two opposing directions:
- We, the United States, elected a new President whose major message was
"Hope and Change".
- The US economy performed a rarely seen free-fall, resulting in
something far less than Hope among the broad US population.
As expected, America's economic problems affected all the major economies
in the world and thus seriously affected also the Scandinavian countries’
economies.
Regardless of these dark horizons, we at SACC-Philadelphia kept on
working towards our goals of increasing our membership base, providing
improved and pertinent activities and services, and developed our support for
our members and potential members.
Over the year, we have had several successful events and activities
(see separate section), we have invested in a new and greatly improved
website, and we have improved our contacts with the other Scandinavian
organizations within our working area of South Jersey, Delaware and
Pennsylvania. It is very positive that we not only have the Norwegian group
taking a major part in our activities, but also have established great contacts
with both the Finnish and Danish Consuls over the year. It should also be
mentioned that our very supportive Norwegian Consul as of 2008 now also
acts as the Swedish Consul as well!
Our interaction with the American-Swedish Historical Museum and our
contacts with SWEA have increased mainly due to our very active and
involved Chairman Erwin and his wife Ulla-Britt. During the year we have
enjoyed a solid support from our corporate members; SCA, IKEA, QlikTech,
BlankRome, SAS and Citizens Bank, only to mention a few.
In September I had the opportunity to represent our chamber at the annual
Entrepreneurial Days in Stockholm and there establish several new contacts
with Swedish companies and organizations looking for potential assistance
with getting connected in the US.
The grand celebration of SACC-USA's twenty-year anniversary took place at
the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm and I had the opportunity to meet the USAmbassador to Sweden, Mr. Wood. We briefly talked about our shared
strong interest in connecting Green technologies between Scandinavia and
the US, a major subject of interest for Ambassador Wood.
Our chamber wishes SACC-USA a continued success and growth, while we
at SACC-Philadelphia continue working on making us the leading chamber
in the upper Mid-Atlantic region.
Philadelphia, January 22 2009
Bengt A. Nestell
President
YEAR IN REVIEW 2008
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