Hosting the 24th Annual Business Address, Scottish Chambers of Commerce celebrated another year of business success with keynote speakers including Nora Senior, Chair, SCC, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and John Holland-Kaye, Chief Executive, Heathrow Airport.
Nora Senior, highlighted the importance of business leadership and collaboration in her final speech as Chair of SCC, and outlined the Chambers’ priority to create a unique Scottish model of international B2B outreach that can withstand changes to the international trade regime brought about in the process of leaving the EU. In the spirit of collaboration and securing business growth, Nora Senior welcomed the announcement from the First Minister to support a private sector led approach to improving Scotland’s exporting performance, with SCC focusing on building permanent trading alliances between Chambers in Scotland and the international network of Chambers, and to support new business-led trade missions.
Nora Senior added that our future as a trading nation now depends on business and government working together to answer some of the tough questions about how best to reimagine, rebuild and deepen our business, cultural, social and economic relationships around the globe.
The First Minister credited the Scottish Chambers of Commerce Network’s reputation on a national and international level saying: “The membership of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, more than 11,000 companies, already has ties to more than 180 countries and so are ideally placed to make new overseas links with businesses and Chambers, which will complement the activities of Scottish Development International.
“This will act as a boost to the resources already committed by the Chamber Network and will contribute to our shared efforts to boost internationalisation.”
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