Using the BABC to build your
transatlantic business

Richard Fursland OBE, Chief Executive, BritishAmerican Business and the British-American Business Council (BABC), explains how the BABC helps companies develop their international business

Richard Fursland OBE, Chief Executive, BritishAmerican Business and the British- American Business Council (BABC), explains how the BABC helps companies develop their international business. The British-American Business Council (BABC) is the largest transatlantic business network. We have chapters throughout North America and the UK, with a collective total of more than 2,500 member companies based in more than 20 major business centers. Our goal is to help these companies build their business by providing access to a transatlantic business network that extends far beyond their own home cities, with a portfolio of services to match.

Our offering is geared to help middle-market and smaller companies as well as major multinationals. If you are a US company looking to establish or expand your business in the UK, we have a regional chapter ready to help you. The same applies in reverse, if you are a UK company looking to build your business in the US.

As well as knowing their regional marketplace, BABC chapters all have member companies who want to do business with companies like yours. If you are a member of any of our chapters, you can connect with these companies through our passwordprotected Online Membership Directory, by participating in the programs of other BABC chapters when you are traveling, and by joining us at our Annual Transatlantic Business Conferences.

The next BABC Annual Transatlantic Business Conference will be held in Washington, DC in the Spring of 2009, and will bring together business executives from all our chapters throughout the US and UK for an extensive, high-level programme of business sessions and networking.

The BABC network also offers other business and marketing opportunities to promote your services and products to our members throughout North America and the UK: to facilitate immigration issues; to identify potential clients and business partners through the extensive external databases of American and European companies that we maintain for our members; and to take advantage of the discounts that our member companies offer to their fellow-members.

Our role is simple: we help companies make connections and do business. If you are (or plan to become) involved in transatlantic business and do not already know about the BABC, do contact your regional BABC chapter to find out what they and the broader BABC network can offer you.

For further information about the BABC, and to identify your local chapter, please visit us at: www.babc.org

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