WELCOME TO THE 14TH DBA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 14 June 2005

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WELCOME TO THE 14TH DBA ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING14 June 2005
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Annual General Meeting 14 June 2005

• Agenda
• Opening
• Matters Arising
• Annual Report of the Board
• Report of Directors and Annual Statement of
  Accounts
• Election of the Directors
• Advisory Board
• Auditors
• Any Other Business
• Closing

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• AOB 2004 Number of Advisory Board Members
• Article 35 a, b, c
• Not less than one and not more than 5 persons
  other than ordinary, additional corporate,
  associate and overseas members
• Appointed by the Board for one term, to be
  renewed for further periods of one term as the
  board may decide
• Members of the Board are Honorary Members of the
  Association
• Presently 3 members excluding chairman who are
  corporate or associate member

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• AOB 2004 Over the border connections
• Strategy should be clear
• Understand of the connection with rest of PRD ,
  China or for that matter other Asian countries
• Last year not part of our overall strategy
• Review this year again

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• Annual Report of the Board
• Hans Olijve - Chairmans note
• Wim Hekstra (Acting) - Membership
• Wim Hekstra - Finance
• Hans Olijve (Acting) - BAC
• Jennifer Chan - China Committee
• Peter Scholten - PRPub
• Pieter Ris SME

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• Chairmans note
• Review last year
• Back-office
• Small Medium Enterprise Committee
• Business Award
• Visibility
• Meetings
• Representation
• IBC IPRD - EEC

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• Chairmans note
• 2005 2006
• Information Desk
• Bi-annual member survey
• Dutch Business Award
• Membership focus

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• Treasurer
• Net loss of HK 191.124, due to the fact we
  pushes the directory forward to financial yr
  2005/2006 (delayed SARS effect) and severance
  payment staff
• Magazine, activities, DBA Award all better than
  expected
• Increased memberships, better than expected
• Subsidy of Consulate, better than expected
• Overall DBA had satisfactory financial result
• Reserves of DBA end of financial year HK 328.661

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• Treasurer
• Budget 2005/2006
• More members
• more activities
• lower costs
• better structure for directory will result in
  small surplus in next year

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Membership Committee
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• Business Activity Committee
• Objective
• Provide topical information
• Exchange experiences and information
• Business and social networking
• Organised over 40 events
• Business Award, Typical Dutch speakers, Joint
  events, Site visits, Social and Sportive
  gatherings
• Local and foreign business people,
  (Semi-)Government, Business Association
  Representatives, Industry Experts, Members

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• Business Activity Committee
• 2005 2006 focus
• Speaker series including Typical Dutch and Hong
  Kong CEOs
• Business Award
• Roundtables
• Site visits
• Social and sportive gatherings
• Joint events with other chambers and DBA
  committees

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• China Committee
• Annual China Seminar in November
• More China-related events throughout the year
  with specific topics
• China-related articles for DBA magazine on
  bi-monthly basis
• Closer co-operation with other business
  associations in China

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• PRPub Committee
• DBA Magazine
• Further improvements in lay-out content
• Change of Editor
• Standard topics
• SME Corner
• Consulate General Corner
• Member Corner (new)

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• PRPub Committee
• DBA Directory
• No directory in this financial year (SARS)
• 2004/5 Directory accounted for in 2003/4
• 2005/6 Directory accounted for in 2005/6
• 2005/6 Directory launched June 2005

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• PRPub Committee
• DBA Website
• Completely revamped website in 2004
• Continuously updated major items
• News, Events, Photo Gallery
• Online registration introduced in 2005
• Advertising in course of 2005

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• SME Committee
• Objectives of the SME Committee
• make sure that SME members benefit from
  membership of the DBA
• help solve typical SME problems
• assist in setting up Dutch SMEs
• offer SMEs networking opportunities by
  organizing events important especially to SMEs
• to represent SME members of the DBA in the Board.

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• SME Committee
• SME Questionnaire
• Where to get relevant info
• Financial issues
• Assistance to start up SMEs
• Networking
• Legal issues
• Employment issues

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• SME Committee
• SME Corner in DBA Magazine
• Round Table Luncheons
• Other events
• Entrepreneurs Round Table
• Luncheons at the Residency
• Social events
• 2nd half of 2005

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• Thank you for your support for the
• Dutch Business Association!!

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