“Bangladesh’s Commercial and Investment Potential: Closer Relations With Turkey” Seminars’ Kocaeli programme was actualized at the Kocaeli Chamber of Industry on May 3, 2017 in cooperation with The Bangladesh’s Ankara Embassy and The Bangladesh’s Istanbul Consulate General.
Besides Bangladesh’s Istanbul Consul General Mohammad Monirul Islam, Bangladesh’s Ankara Embassy’s Commercial Coordinator Kemal Dogan, The Bangladesh Metropoliten Chamber of Commerce’s Executive Board Member, Bangladesh Export Development Association representative, Bangladesh Investment Development Association representatives also attended the programme that was made as a seminar.
The Kocaeli Chamber of Industry’s Vice Chairman Cinar Ulusoy and Bangladesh’s İstanbul Consul General made the opening speeches of the seminar. The speakers; The Metropoliten Chamber of Commerce Executive Board Member, Bangladesh Investment Development Association representative gave information about Bangladesh’s potential and opportunities and they invited the participants to invest in Bangladesh.

Consul General of Kazakhstan in Istanbul Yelkebulan Sapiyev and his delegation visited the KCI’s Executive Board on April 4, 2017. The delegation who were welcomed by the Chairman of The Board Ayhan Zeytinoglu gave information to the Executive Board about the investment opportunities in Kazakhstan.

The delegation including Consul General of Kazakhstan in Istanbul Yelkebulan Sapiyev, Kazakhstan Republic’s Minister of Investment and Development Nuriddin Amankul and Kazakhstan Investment Agency Kaznex Invest’s Turkey Advisor Giray Gayretli made a presentation to the members of the Kocaeli Chamber of Industry.

In the presentation; Kazakhstan’s high level of safe business environment, fast growing economy and qualified human resources, large market and logistic facilitation, government incentives, financial support and bureaucratic convenience, raw material cost and low production cost advantages were emphasized by the Consul General Yelkebulan Sapiyev and Minister Nuriddin Amankul.

On the 2nd of November at the KSO Izmit headquarters the US Istanbul Consulate General in cooperation with the KSO presented the Investment in USA program (Select USA) and the Consumer Electronics Show. From the USA Istanbul Consulate, General Trade Attaché Neil Pickett along with Trade Expert Gokce Tuncer and Public Relations Department Coordinator Selda Serifsoy participated in the program; Mr Neil Pickett and Ms Gokce Tuncer will be organizing Select USA as part of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada on 05-08 January 2017 and they passed this information on to a delegation of Turkish businessmen.

Select USA Program; It provides free consulting services to foreign companies while demonstrating the advantages of investing in the US. It aims to help business owners who want to invest in the US or grow their business there, to help them understand the logistics process of opening and expanding businesses, bring investors up to speed with local or federal resources on investment opportunities and incentives for business development. It provides information and potential business partners by linking with organizations in the sector, enabling them to identify barriers to successful collaboration with federal agencies. Furthermore it provides information on the US regulatory framework which must be observed when setting up a business and employing workers. During the presentation, as a parallel subject information was given on the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world’s largest electronics fair. It was stated that participation in this event gave the opportunity to meet with thousands of electronics and technology companies. A total of 3,600 exhibitors from around the world have presented 20,000 new products to 170,000 exhibitors at this exhibition, bringing together consumers with technology products manufacturers, distributors, researchers, content developers, cost and industry analysts, retailers and buyers and decision makers in the retail distribution channel.

At the end of the presentation, KSO Deputy Secretary General Egemen Mert presented a crystal model of the KSO Chamber to the US Consulate General of Istanbul, Neil Pickett.

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The ACCIO Catalonia Trade and Investment Office in collaboration with the Kocaeli Chamber of Industry (KCI) held an event entitled “Investment opportunities in Catalonia”. It took place on Tuesday 22 March 2016 at the KSO Head Office in Izmit Kocaeli.
At the event, various presentations were made. The Director of ACCIO, Mr Ali Kahvecioğlu, presented “Investment opportunities in Catalonia”. The Director of Banco Sabadell’s representative Office in Istanbul, Mr Vicente Balbin, gave a presentation entitled “Financial issues encountered while doing business in Spain and Catalonia” and lawyer Mr Axel Yıldız presented “How to start a business in Catalonia”
Investment opportunities in Catalonia, and financial topics related to establishing and doing business in Catalonia were explained.

A briefing about Kazakstan’s Aktobe region’s business opportunities was given at the Central Office of the Kocaeli Chamber of Industry on the 19th January, 2016 in the cooperation with the Kocaeli Chamber of Industry and The General Consulate of Kazakstan in Istanbul. The briefing was given by the Deputy Governor and Social-Enterprise Foundation Chairman Kayrat BEKENOV and the participants were informed about the advantages of the region and at the same time Turkish investors were invited to the region. Before the briefing, the Kazakh delegation including  Kayrat BEKENOV and the Kazakh businessmen were welcomed by the Vice Chairman of the Kocaeli Chamber of Industry Cinar ULUSOY and a lunch was organized for the honour of the delegation.