BENEFITS OF JOINING CHAMBER?

There are countless good reasons to join the Border-Kei Chamber of Business and direct benefits include:

DATABASE

Chamber membership gives you valuable access to members and potential clients.

NEW MEMBERS INDUCTION AND NETWORKING FUNCTIONS

Members are entitled to attend valuable informal, but structured opportunities to meet a broad range of business people.

BUSINESS HI-LITE MAGAZINE

This glossy B2B magazine is distributed monthly free of charge to all our members and keeps you in touch with Chamber activities and developments in our area.

CHAMBER EVENTS DIARY

The Chamber Diary is listed on our website and updated as events change. Both Members and Non-Members are invited to attend and become involved.

LETTERS OF SUPPORT

At a small fee, we gladly provide letters of support to members trying to access tenders and expand their business footprint. Each Chamber member commits to a code of ethics that endeavours to raise the standard on which business is conducted.

LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION

The Chamber issues letters of introduction to members proceeding abroad on business.

BUSINESS BYTES

Our monthly electronic newsletter gives a snapshot of activities and upcoming events.

MEMBERSHIP CERTIFICATE

On becoming a member you will receive a personalised membership certificate at a New Members' Induction and Networking Event.

www.bkcob.co.za

Members who have websites are entitled to a link from our website, to yours. We ask you to reciprocate this link from your website to ours as well. The new and constantly updated portal provides members with an advanced medium to keep abreast of both news and the latest developments within the Border-Kei region.

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B-BBEE Project
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CHAMBER WELCOMES B-BBEE PROJECT COORDINATOR

The Border-Kei Chamber of Business (BKCOB) is pleased to welcome Verdra Brown as co-ordinator of the BKCOB’s Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) project.

The project established in conjunction with the Department of Economic Development and Environmental Affairs (DEDEA) and the Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC) aims to mainstream B-BBEE in the formal economy through opportunity identification and matching.
This is achieved through communicating the state of play in B-BBEE legislation and the maintenance of a database of B-BBEE suppliers and their services.
Brown’s background includes working in marketing at the Walter Sisulu University and running her own marketing company Sugarberry which focusses on a small to medium business client base and facilitating their development through marketing . Her services to them have brought her into contact with a range of entrepreneurial development agencies including the Umsobomvu Youth Fund and the Small Enterprise Development Agency.
“There is a lot of ground-work that has been done in terms of the project’s objectives and solid foundations have been laid. I intend to build on these and maintain the project’s momentum. Broadly this will done through optimizing the existing linkages and growing the database that has been established, as well as the dissemination and access to relevant information to translate the spirit of B-BBEE into the necessary broadening of the economic base,” Brown said.
“I believe my knowledge of the challenges and aspirations of small business will assist the project to facilitate small business’ access to the mainstream economy which is what B-BBEE legislations seeks to achieve.”

For more details on how members and non-members alike can benefit please contact Verdra Brown on 043 743 8438.

NEW- Click here to download a copy of the BBBEE thedti Executive Summary
 


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