2014 Annual Report
2014 Events &Activities
AmCham Macedonia is best known as the most active foreign business association in the country. In 2014,
its impressive repertoire of activities and events included 14 gatherings that attracted about 830 attendees.
These included high profile conference on business - university cooperation, roundtable discussions with
IMF and Foreign Investors, IPR workshops, trainings and seminars for mid and top managers. However, in a
busy year of events and activities, there are always a few that stand out as particularly memorable, this year,
they were:
Corporate Leadership Discussion with 4 Embassies
For the first time in AmCham Macedonia’s history, it hosted an event featuring 4 key members of the
diplomatic community: U.S. Ambassador Paul D. Wohlers; British Ambassador, Charles Garrett; Dutch
Charge d'Affaires, Peter Verheyen; and German Ambassador, Christine Althauser. The leadership of
50 AmCham member organizations attended this high level discussion on Macedonia’s legal quality,
predictability and prospects for sustainable growth in the country. The event was carried out in
coordination with each embassy as well as the Dutch-Macedonian Chamber of Commerce and resulted
in an initiative to improve communication and coordination between international business organizations
operating in the country, particularly with respect to their advocacy initiatives.
Motivational Sales Seminar with Mike Moore
AmCham Macedonia in cooperation with LinkAcross and financially supported by the U.S. Embassy
organized its first Motivational Sales Seminar with Mike Moore, a popular American motivational speaker.
At the headline event, Mike Moore addressed over 100 sales managers and staff from both AmCham
Macedonia and AmCham Kosovo. Audience members agreed that Moore’s approach differed from any sales
seminar they’d ever attended in Skopje.
In total, 73% of respondents said they gained new knowledge, 14% made new contacts and 88% gave a high
score to the speaker and event format.
2nd Annual Business-University Cooperation Conference
High state officials, university professors and students gathered with the leadership of many of the
country’s most progressive companies to begin deepening existing cooperation models. Keynote speaker,
Richard Norment, a U.S. expert on Public Private Partnerships moderated a fruitful discussion during the
event.
As part of our Advancing Business-University Cooperation Conference, we developed and conducted
surveys for the business community and students, gathering information from our member companies and
student organizations that we cooperate with.
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