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Season's Greetings
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December 12, 2005
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Get your calendar....
The Women's
Council
networking
breakfast is this Wed. from 8-10 a.m. at
the Arab American
National Museum in Dearborn. Click to: register,
pay,
see speaker
bios, and see sign-ups.
Get in on the Detroit
Regional Chamber's Superbowl
XL series of
free professional
development
workshops for small, minority and women-owned
businesses. Each includes: professional speakers,
NFL prizes, networking and refreshments. Advance
registration is required. For more information, call Megan
Spanitz at (313)
596-0395. Reserve these
dates: (1)
Getting in the Game- Are YOU Ready for the Next
Great Business Opportunity? Thurs., Jan.
5, from
7:30 - 9:30 a.m. at the Detroit Regional Chamber.
Register
now. (2) Staying in
the Game
- Doing Business After the Super Bowl. Hosted by the
Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce, Wed.,
Jan. 11, 4 - 6 p.m. at The Westin Southfield.
Register
Now. (3) Sharing Old Secrets
With New
Entrepreneurs is hosted by the Detroit Black Chamber
of Commerce at the Museum of African American
History in Detroit on Wed., Jan. 18, 6 - 8 p.m.
Registration opens December 19. (4) Creating
Cross
Cultural Business Opportunities is hosted by the
Chaldean American Chamber of Commerce on Thurs.,
Jan. 26 from 6 - 8 p.m. at the Shenandoah Country
Club in West Bloomfield. Registration opens Dec. 23.
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Please patronize our new members! Sterling
Bank & Trust is a full-service bank,
specializing in real estate lending for residential,
commercial and construction. Sterling invests in your
community and wants to earn your trust. Payroll
Matters is an affordable, professional,
full-service
payroll, tax, and time and attendance service
featuring complete reporting, e-submissions, EFTPS,
direct deposit, and e-banking. Included at no
additional cost: all reports, payroll checks, system
conversion, data additions and changes, and benefits
tracking. Mayssa
Eid invites you to call for a free comparison:
(313) 445-5561.
Lowes Home
Improvement superstores hope you shop
Lowes for the handy people on your list, as well as
take stock of all your pre-holiday home improvement
supplies and the complete line of tools you can buy
or rent to bring your project to a perfect finish.
Lowes wants you to know that it has Arabic-speaking
associates in stores, ready to help! Come on in!
Compuware
Corp., headquartered in Detroit, is
recognized globally as a premier provider of
software products and services designed for IT
professionals. Compuware operates 72 offices in 54
countries, employs a dedicated global sales and
support staff, and partners with a vast network of
distributors and resellers to ensure that its
products are available and supported in all parts of
the world. For your custom IT solution, call
Compuware at (313) 227-7300 or (800) COMPUWARE.
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Minority Suppliers Wanted for New Hospital Project!
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Henry Ford Health System and Turner Construction are
building the New West Bloomfield Hospital. They
hosted an outreach event, Nov. 14, to share
information regarding size and scope, vendors
needed, and local community business opportunities.
HFHS is compiling a list of minority vendors and the
goods and services they provide. It will be a
booklet given to the 300+ trades people who may
eventually work on the project. The booklet will
contain a discount card for use at listed
businesses, to track the success of enticing workers
to utilize local minority-owned businesses.
To get in the booklet and/or to become part of the
project, please contact Sylvia L.
Daniels, the Coordinator of Vendor Relations for
the Purchasing Supply Chain at Henry Ford Health
System: Office 313-874-6483, Fax 313-874-6117 .
Please read
instructions and complete the vendor
qualification form.
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Your Chamber at Work....Securing
Opportunities for Global Commerce:
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On Nov. 15, Chamber reps met with
Iraq’s Minister of
Trade, Abdul Bassit Kareem Mawlud, and Iraq’s
Minister of Industry & Minerals, Osama
Abdul-Aziz
Al-Najafi. They established communications with the
sovereign government of Iraq and the U.S. industrial
private sector; and identified favorable business
opportunities in leasing arrangements, joint
ventures, and long-term privatization of state-owned
enterprises.
On Dec. 5, the Chamber and the U.S. Commerce
Dept.
hosted 70 businesses interested in Doing Business
in the Middle East and North Africa. A USCD rep
stationed in Saudi Arabia, presented and then met
personally with individuals, as did other USCD reps,
after the seminar. See complete
details.
On November 17, Chamber reps met
with a 10-member delegation from the Jordanian
Exporters Association. These Jordanian food
manufacturers from Amman, met with wholesalers,
retailers, community leaders, and attended the
Chamber banquet to establish business ties in
Michigan.
In December, the Chamber
began formulating a
partnership with the Arab Brazilian Chamber
of Commerce and its Brazil-Arab News
Agency-- resources rich in economic data on
Brazil and the 22 Arab countries that Chamber
represents.
Bookmark these FREE
COMMERCIAL RESOURCES:
- The U.S.
Export Assistance Center of the U.S. Commercial
Service
- The
Michigan
District Export Council
- The Michigan
Department of Budget & Acquisitions- minority
purchasing
- The
Michigan Economic
Development Corporation
- The Michigan
Business Directory: free listing
in a database w/ global
reach!
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The
AACC has
adopted a local family of 14 for
Christmas.
Get
details. Also donate to The Christmas
Store, a
charity accepting food, gifts, decorations and
clothing-- all given to needy families before the
holidays. Bring your donations to the Chamber or call
(313) 289-9200 for a pick up. And remember that ACCESS
accepts such donations throughout the year and is
collecting blankets
now. The new YMCA in
downtown Detroit is
hiring Arab-Americans! The Southeast
Michigan Red Cross needs you. Donate blood in Dearborn!
Help save a life...it could be someone you
know. Oakwood Hospital is looking for talented
volunteers to bring joy to those suffering. Please
consider bringing your voice, humor, art, poetry,
dancing shoes, or other gifts of enthusiasm to cheer
someone in need. Contact Zana Macki
to participate in Oakwood Healthcare's Arts
for the Spirit Program.
'Tis the season for new toys...but, don't throw those
old cell phones out, bring them to the Chamber or to
a Dearborn Public School office to benefit the DPS
Education Foundation. Phones are
refurbished to help others in need. (Accessories and
chargers cannot be accepted.) Thank you!
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Please join
the American Arab Chamber of Commerce and let us
work for you!
Secure a prominent place in the hearts and minds of
the 250,000 Arab
International Festival visitors. Get your
sponsorship rolling! Click
or call today: (313) 945-1700.
We wish you a blessed holiday
season filled with
peace and joy.
Sincerely,
Renee M. Newman, Communications Director
American Arab Chamber of Commerce
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