Thursday 28 May 2009

Organisers

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF ALICANTE
The Chamber of Commerce of Alicante is an organisation supporting the trade Alicante’s small and medium enterprises with the aim of promoting their activities at the three market levels. The organisation offers a range of services to improve the resources of companies in different business areas. The Chamber of Commerce is free for the most part and allow entrepreneurs to provide advice and management, ensuring a better environment in which to develop their actions.

To learn more visit: www.camaralicante.com


FICE (SPANISH FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY FEDERATION)
Founded in 1977, FICE is the business organization representing the interests of the footwear sector in the regional, national and international levels. It is composed of 11 associations located in areas of greatest concentration of industry: Elche, Elda, Villena and Vall d'Uxó (Valencia), and Fuensalida Almansa (Castilla-La Mancha), Arnedo (La Rioja), Mallorca and Menorca (Islas Baleares); Illueca (Aragon) and Valverde del Camino (Andalucia), and a number of associates directly, by being located outside the areas mentioned.FICE brings together over 700 companies representing 90% of the total production and export of the sector in Spain, and its work, in general, aims to boost the competitiveness of enterprises, enhancing their strengths and ensuring the sector’s future. They have the support of the Institute Footwear Technology INESCOP.

To learn more visit: www.fice.es


ICEX (SPANISH INSITUTE FOR FOREIGN TRADE)
ICEX is the third organiser via the Economic and Commercial Office of the Embassy of Spain in Ireland. The Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX) provides services to Spanish companies with the aim of encouraging and promoting their international expansion. ICEX has its own financial, material and human resources to support the companies in their international career.The Institute is active in the following areas: designing and implementing programs to promote trade in foreign markets, developing and disseminating information about the product offered in Spanish and international markets, enhancing technical training of managers of the companies and the training of professionals in foreign trade, promoting investment projects and allowing for industrial or business cooperation in foreign markets. To effectively achieve its objectives, ICEX has activities abroad through the network of economic and commercial offices (OFECOMES) in the embassies of Spain and in Spain itself through the regional chambers of commerce.
To learn more visit: www.oficinascomerciales.es