Komerční banka and CzechTrade sign an agreement on co-operation for 2011

Press release

9/14/2010
8:00 AM

Komerční banka and CzechTrade, the national export promotion agency, signed an agreement on co-operation for 2011 on the occasion of the Brno International Engineering Fair. Henri Bonnet, Komerční banka Chairman and CEO, Jan Juchelka, member of the Board of Directors at KB, and Ivan Jukl, CzechTrade CEO, signed the agreement.

“The co-operation between Komerční banka and CzechTrade has been successfully going on for the eighth year now. We mainly focus on organising a number of educational events, publishing technical articles, and joint support for our clients in respect of missions and trade fairs outside the Czech Republic. Our joint conferences on export topics are popular amongst exporters. Over the time of our co-operation, we have organised 19 such conferences, and some 2,500 company representatives attended them,” said Jaromír Chabr, Head of Trade and Export Finance at KB. The nearest conference will take place in Brno on 20 October, and will be dedicated to trading with Russia and Kazakhstan.

“Next year, Czech exporters can look forward to two major national conferences on exports. One of them will focus on very attractive geographies, India and China. The topic of the other conference will be European countries, Germany and France, because the interest in these countries was enormous this year.  We are also planning three regional seminars focused on some other markets that are attractive for Czech exporters, specifically Bulgaria and Rumania, Austria and Poland, and, last but not least, on North Africa and Turkey,” noted Ivan Jukl, CzechTrade CEO.

Evidence of the fact that these events are useful is exporters’ interest and active participation in these meetings.

Komerční banka is one of the best run universal banks in Central Europe. It provides comprehensive services to clients in the areas of retail, corporate, and investment banking. The Komerční banka Group’s 8,624 employees serve 2.7 million clients, who can use an extensive network of 395 points of sale throughout the country. Komerční banka currently operates 676 ATMs and 989,000 of its clients use one of direct banking channels.

Komerční banka is part of the Société Générale Group, one of the largest banking groups in the euro zone (in terms of market capitalisation), whose 157,000 employees serve more than 32 million individual clients worldwide.

CzechTrade is the national export promotion organisation of the Czech Republic. Its main objective is to develop international trade and mutual cooperation between Czech and foreign companies. For thirteen years, its professional information, assistance and consulting services have been accompanying Czech exporters to enter foreign markets. For foreign companies entering the Czech market, CzechTrade is a contact partner that seeks interesting and reliable business partners and suppliers.