New Members
MerzarioMerzario B.V. is a worldwide service provider in the logistics industry.
Merzario was founded in 1833, but is now, through a management buyout in 2005, a fully independent forwarding company.
An international network of agents covers the needs of its customers around the world.
To strengthen its international network, Merzario has set up own offices in London, Vietnam and Hong Kong. A further expansion into mainland China will take place in the next year.
Merzario has 85 employees.
Merzario provides its customers a full range of services, including sea freight, air freight, customs clearance, warehousing and distribution and European trucking services and any combination of special services tailored to the specific needs of every customer.
ChinaMovesChinaMoves is a young company run by two women, Lilian Kranenburg and Gwendolyn Tates, with a joint experience of more than 50 years in doing business with China. They enjoy putting creative thought into solving problems for clients by adapting their existing sources into new, original and commercially interesting marketing tools. ChinaMoves likes to explore off the beaten track options that provide both sound conceptual and financial value for her clients. A recent example of such a project concerned the linking up of city councils and provincial governments with a tulip bulb enterprise.
ChinaMoves supports businesses and government entities with formulating and executing their China strategy particularly in the field of marketing and communication. ChinaMoves also caters to those in need of additional training in intercultural ethics, protocol and business practices, not only valuable to businesses, but also to teachers and students in higher learning.
For more information please visit the website www.chinamoves.com
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VistraVistra Hong Kong Limited
Vistra is not the average global Trust & Corporate Services provider. The Vistra Group provides a full range of cross-border solutions for wealth protection, and the structuring of assets and cash flows. Through combination of a unique set of skills (tax, legal and accounting) we are able to address the various needs of our clients, who include both private individuals and corporations across the world.
Our high level of customer service is combined with our global network which enables our professionals to draw on the resources of strategically located offices.
Vistra provides Corporate Services, Trade & Treasury Services, Accounting Services, Payroll & Outsourcing Services, Trustee & Fiduciary Services, Specialised Services and Fund Services.
Visit www.vistra.com for more information or contact Dutchman Erik Leenders in Hong Kong at erik.leenders@vistra.com or in The Netherlands Sjaak ten Hove at sjaak.ten.hove@vistra.com (Breda) or Tako van Ginkel at tako.van.ginkel@vistra.com (Amsterdam).
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First student member !
Mr. J. Manus van der Jagt - Field of study: Trade Management Asia
Personal introduction:
Dear Members,
Besides all the cultural beauty and the historical treasures Asia has to offer, we all know that the growth in the Asia Pacific region has been phenomenal for some years now, and still is, compared to the rest of the world.
My study Trade Management Asia is a part of the International Trade Program of the Economics and Management School (HES), an economic study aimed at Asia.
Logically this was one of the reasons why I started working for the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.
Besides the professional attraction, the office at the prinsengracht is a privilege to work in, especially because I was born, and am living in Amsterdam.
Through my work for the HKTDC I got in touch with the Netherlands Hong Kong Society.
The first time I met some of its members was at the Chinese New Year dinner at the Sea Palace in 2007, where I assisted Anna with the preparation for the event.
Now that I have the honour to be the first student member, as well as the youngest member of the oldest Hong Kong focused society, I hope I can be of value to the Netherlands Hong Kong Society in the future.
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Jochem Manus van der Jagt
Mrs. E. Slater OliveiraPersonal message: I have the Portuguese Nationality and I was born in Hong Kong. I speak Cantonese fluently and I have lived in the Netherlands for the past 35 years, working in the petrochemical industry in the corporate communications and facility management fields.
I have always wanted to set up a part time distribution network of Chinese materials to the Netherlands and especially in these difficult economic crisis, maybe in some way try to assist some of the smaller businesses in Hong Kong.
I am also a fanatic field hockey player and have been chairwoman of Hockey Club Voorne for 2 terms.
Handelsonderneming Wika - Mr A. Mussies, Director
Ernst & Young - Ms. Dolores van Dongen, Business Development Manager, China Business Services, EMEIADolores van Dongen, Sinologist, lived and worked in China for more than 15 years. Dolores worked for KLM as Chief Rep in Beijing for 7 years. After that Dolores established Sunshine Learning Center, a school for children with special needs. Dolores returned to the Netherlands in 2007 and joined Ernst & Young at the China Business Services.
News from Members
Rob Beekwilder was featured in an article in the Financieele Dagblad of 8 December 2008. In the article he answered three questions.
1. Are you already thinking of December 2010? Beekwilder reponds that his customers will decide what they will do in the next year in the first weeks of December. At first they were reluctant to invest in new decoration materials for their shopwindows. The better than expected Saint Nicholas’ sales have persuaded them to change their minds.
2. Does a wintery landscape help? Beekwilder: “When I was walking on the Veluwe two weeks ago and it started to snow, I was overjoyed. When it snows heavily, the shops are at first empty but then the fill up. A white landscape stimulates shopkeepers to do more with their shop windows.
3. Your father started as a painter of bill boards and invented new fonts for shops. What is your profession like now? Beekwilder: “Colour trends are now succeeding each other very rapidly. At the moment black and white is dominant. Christmas 2010 will be dominated by silver and gold. Colours that together create a champagne colour. The decoration of shop windows is now interwoven with the world of fashion and interior.
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