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The Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers Confederation is a non-profit organization which represents a wide cross-section of private sector businesses in The Bahamas. We currently have a membership base of more than 500 registered companies from various industries including tourism, which as The Bahamas’ main industry accounts for 75% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Other industries that we proudly represent include banking and finance, retail, construction and light manufacturing.
As the primary advocacy group for the private sector, we work in tandem with our valuable members in the business community, the Government of The Bahamas along with various Non-Government Organizations (NGO’s) on ways to further improve private enterprise, in order to ensure a vibrant and stable economy for more than 300,000 Bahamians, hundreds of local business owners and international investors as well as the 5 million plus visitors who annually travel to our warm tropical paradise.
As a modern and futuristic, Chamber of Commerce, we aggressively work to support our members and the business community at large. We are at the forefront of various issues, which affect our members and regularly hold monthly business and educational seminars and expos in conjunction with our partners in the community.
In addition, we serve as a lobbying group and address the varied concerns of our members through various dialogue and exchanges with government officials and various organizations. The Chamber is also the local employers representative of the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Each year in an effort to further encourage business excellence, as well as recognize the outstanding contributions made by leading businesspersons in the community we recognize an exemplary business leader who has dedicated the course of his or her life to the up building of business enterprise in The Bahamas through our coveted Lifetime Achievement Award during our annual gala Awards Banquet. Other Chamber Awards presented to pacesetters in the business community include the prestigious Businessperson of the Year, Business of the Year in Category A with 51 or more employees, Business of the Year in Category B with 50 or fewer employees and our Developing Entrepreneur of the Year.
In recent months, we have led historic Trade Missions to a number of countries including China and Haiti in order to foster economic trade and further deepen ties between these countries and The Bahamas.
We have also partnered with the country’s highest tertiary educational institute, the College of The Bahamas to provide annual scholarships to top Business Students.
These are indeed exciting times for The Bahamas and business in general in our country, and if you are not already a member of the BCCEC we encourage you to join and become a part of our active Chamber!
Join today the Chamber today!