Useful exchange of experience

The secretaries of the IUCAB member associations met in Turin on 27th January 2017.

At the end of January, the Secretarial Working Group (SWG) came together in Turin (Italy). The meeting was hosted by Mr. Marco Righetti and Mr. Giacomo Bottaro from USARCI and chaired by IUCAB’s vice president, Mr. David Johnson. IUCAB President Mr. Olivier Mazoyer also attended the meeting. In addition to the IUCAB Secretary General Mr. Christian Rebernig the national secretaries from Great Britain and Ireland, the French member association APAC (Mrs. Rachel Detain), Austria, Sweden (Mrs. Helena Waker), Germany (Mr. Eckhard Döpfer), Italy and Cyprus (Mr. Zacharias Manitaras) were present.

First of all, the global economic situation was discussed in detail taking in consideration the position of the commercial agents. The economic situation has improved throughout Europe.

In addition, Mr. Rebernig presented the latest figures and facts regarding the IUCAB members. He also informed about the action plan for this year and about the first results of the branding process.

Mr. Waker reported on the social media activities on LinkedIn and Facebook.

Mr. Döpfer informed that 12 platforms with nearly 14,000 commercial agents are now online on the “IUCAB platform” www.come-into-contact.com. Recently the Russian and the Italian platform was launched.

Finally, the national activities and successes of the year 2016 were presented. The participants will continue this useful exchange of experiences. The next meeting of the SWG will take place in January 2018 probably in Zurich.