10 Feb Mayoral Breakfast – Questions raised
Please click here to view a list of questions presented to Candidates at the recent ‘Business at Breakfast’.
Click here if you wish to view the Mayoral Candidate speeches.
Mayoral Candidates Breakfast – Lucky door prize winners
Congratulations to the following attendees:
Bob Carroll, Australian Events – Toowoomba Golf Club voucher
Cyntha Hardy, Benmic Industries – Toowoomba Golf Club voucher
Aiden Burke, USQ – Toowoomba Golf Club voucher
Gary Palmer, South Qld Investment Solutions – Focus HR services voucher
Corporate Golf Challenge Results
The Toowoomba Chamber of Commerce & Industry sincerely thanks each of the teams who participated in the event and braved the brief showers of rain throughout the afternoon.
An even bigger thank you to our sponsors of the event: Southern Cross Ford, Horizon Accounting Group, Toowoomba Regional Enterprise, ANZ & Geiger Civil & Electrical.
Click here to view the results.
A photo slideshow will soon be available, contact tracey@toowoombachamber.com.au if you would like to copies now.
Prof. Jan Thomas Breakfast – Lucky door prize winners
Congratulations to our lucky door prize winners:
$50 Gift Voucher from Hannas – Professor Julie Cotter, USQ
Toowoomba Golf Voucher #1 – Associate Professor Rhoderick McNeill, USQ
Toowoomba Golf Voucher #2 – Mandy Turner, Budget Rent a Car
Toowoomba Golf Voucher #3 – Kerry Betros, Heritage Bank
Energy Summit 2012 – Registrations open!
Energy Summit 2012 will be held on Thursday and Friday, March 15 and 16 at the Southern Queensland Institute of TAFE in Toowoomba.
Interested chamber members are invited to consider investing in the Energy Summit as either a sponsor or exhibitor. This is the second year the event will be run, and indications are that it will be fully subscribed.
Click here to download a copy of the 2012 Registration Brochure.
Email Greg at the Chamber for further information.
SBAS Workshop – Marketing and Advertising
Small businesses affected, either directly or indirectly, by natural disaster since October 2010 are invited to attend our upcoming workshop titled ‘Unscrambling Marketing and Advertising’.
We are pleased to introduce the presenter, John Fegan. John Fegan has spent the last thirty years in the advertising industry in a multi-faceted career that encompasses all the variations it has to offer. He was the Creative Director of Young and Rubicam, John Singletons and Triple M FM and worked freelance for Saatchi, Black Ink, Ogilvy and Mather and George Patersons to name a few.
He will attempt to change your thinking with presentation skills that are as entertaining as they are informative.
John presently runs his own small business consultancy with River 949 as his prominent client.
Date: Monday 14 November, 2011
Time: 6:00pm to 7:300pm
Venue: Futures Restaurant, Southern Queensland Institute of TAFE
100 Bridge Street, Toowoomba
Supper and beverages provided courtesy of Olive Branch Lounge Bar and Restaurant
Bookings are essential, please email Greg Johnson greg@toowoombachamber.com.au or phone 4637 9276 by Thursday 10th November if you would like to attend.
Download the flyer.
The services provided by the Toowoomba Chamber of Commerce & Industry are funded by the Australian Government.
AGM Election Results
Following elections at the Friday, 28 October Annual General Meeting, thirteen local business men and women will serve you for the next twelve months. Under its constitution the Board may elect further Board members.
Results are:
President: Geoff McDonald, Geoff@crackerpp.com
Vice-President: Brian Turner, b.turner@gc.qic.com
Secretary: Jim Rawlings, jimr@hooperaccountants.com.au
Treasurer: Dan Gabbett, dan@robertson-scannell.com.au
Board Members: Phil Gregory, phil.gregory@boral.com.au
Adrian Hallewell, adrian@cglaw.com.au
Julian Lancaster-Smith, julian@cakesgalore.com.au
Brendan McDonald, brendan.mcdonald@colliers.com
Joy Mingay, joy@classicsecretarial.com.au
Nancy Sommerfield, nancy.sommerfield@bigpond.com
Phil Stonestreet, phil@stonestreetscoaches.com.au
Andrew Wielandt, andrew@dp.net.au
Past President: Shane Charles, ceo@toowoombaregionalenterprise.com.au
If you would like to obtain a copy of the 2011 Annual Report please email info@toowoombachamber.com.au.
Energy Summit 2012 promises to be a sell-out!
Exciting times ahead with planning for the 15/16 March Energy Summit 2012 in full swing.
The Committee has convened a number of meetings and resolved a target list of thirty energy/mining leaders to present at the Summit. Thus far Alfonso Vega de Seoane Pallares from Abengoa Solar, Warren Wilmington from Easternwell and Jamie Anderson from Mastertek are confirmed and negotiations are continuing with a number of other Australian and North American energy/mining leaders.
Venue for the Summit is the Bridge Street, Toowoomba Southern Queensland Institute of TAFE (SQIT) using the lecture theatre for plenary sessions and the “Triple Room” as the Exhibition Hall where all breaks will be taken. It is likely that other SQIT campuses will be connected to the Summit electronically meaning that delegates can participate from afar as well as here in Toowoomba. SQIT can accommodate 200 delegates however it is likely that many more will register using the remote connection option. Committee is currently considering venues for the 15 March “Prospector’s Dinner” with preference likely to be an industrial setting consistent with the nature of the Summit.
A large number of sponsorship/exhibition options are available and companies with an interest in investing in the event are invited to contact me at greg@toowoombachamber.com.au or mobile 0414 783 343.
A 12-page Summit brochure is currently being developed and it will be distributed nationally as well as to our 3,000 strong email database.