Border-Kei Chamber of
Border-Kei Chamber of Business provides key services to over 650 member organisations, and aims to be the “voice of business” in the region. VALUE PROPOSITION To be the “voice of business” promoting an environment for growth and sustainability through maintaining strong, proactive relations with both internal and external stakeholders, including provincial and local government, member companies, other business organisations and organised labour. Border-Kei Chamber of Business (BKCOB) has offices in East London and Queenstown (Komani), which serve the greater Border-Kei region. SERVICES AND BENEFITS TO MEMBERS BKCOB offers the following key services: Member listing: After joining, members are added to the website directory and receive their proud member logo to add to their signature as part of their package. Membership certificate: New members’ induction and networking functions ‒ the Chamber holds six new members’ induction and networking functions annually, and these provide a valuable informal but structured opportunity to meet a broad range of businesspeople. Letters of support: The Chamber offers letters of support to members who are in good standing for their submissions for government tenders as well as letters of introduction to members who are looking to increase the scope of their businesses. Business Hi-Lite magazine: This glossy B2B magazine is now in-house and produced quarterly, with set themes for each edition, adding relevant topics and information/news of what’s happening. It also features Chamber activities and developments in the area. Trade and information: Aside from trade assistance and information, the Chamber is also certified to issue Certificates of Origin for exporting companies. Invest Buffalo City: A collaborative initiative where members can find a variety of economic information on Buffalo City. It provides a platform to attract international investors, as well as exposure for local companies. Committees: The Chamber has a robust and effective committee structure to facilitate members’ participation and to enable the Chamber to fulfil its role as the “voice of business”. Over 120 voluntary business professionals participate. TURNOVER BKCOB represents over 650 member organisations that generate an estimated annual turnover of R73-billion, and that employ some 58 000 people who earn an estimated annual income of R19-billion in total.
Tel: +27 43 743 8438 Fax: +27 43 748 1507 Chamber House, The Hub, Bonza Bay Road, Beacon Bay, East London The Chamber has built a relationship with the metro to ensure we create an enabling environment within which businesses thrive. To this end, the Chamber has created initiatives to actively attract investment into our city. Port expansion remains one of Chamber’s main focus areas, with Transnet still the main stakeholder keeping the future of our region and investors’ interests alive. Present lobby refers to the expansion of the Container Terminal, the widening and deepening of the Port itself. As simple as they are, those three activities will in fact make Buffalo City a more desirable location. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR executive@bkcob.co.za executive@bkcob.co.za MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Amanda Bacela | communications@bkcob.co.za INVEST BUFFALO CITY Wela Brukwe | ibc@bkcob.co.za Website: www.investbuffalocity.com Widening the network remains one of our guiding principles, and engaging with as many stakeholders as possible towards economic growth sits at the top of our agenda. As we engage we focus on the collaboration rather than the exception and recently a number of MOUs have been agreed in structuring those engagements. The Chamber’s own projects succeed because we invite participation, and the Call-2-Action with related waste recycling has introduced a new way of approaching the everlasting challenge of littering and waste collection. The Border-Kei Chamber of Business is a business support organisation serving the Border-Kei Region since 1877. Through collaborations and communication with diverse stakeholders, we will keep working to serve the interests of business in the Border-Kei region. Lizelle Maurice Lizelle Maurice is a child of the Eastern Lizelle Maurice Cape Soil. is a She child did of everal the Eastern tertiary courses Cape soil. through She did Coronation several tertiary nursing College, courses Unisa, through Damelin Coronation & UCT. Nursing She College, owns Unisa, Park Place Damelin Boutique and UCT. Guest House, which has won her National Tourism Department’s She owns Park Lilizela Place Boutique Awards Guest in the House, Emerging Tourism which has Entrepreneur won her National of Tourism the Year Department’s category. Lilizela She was Awards appointed the Emerging as the BKCOB’s Tourism Entrepreneur of the Executive Year category. Director She in was 2021. appointed as the BKCOB’s Executive Director in 2021.
