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Membership

Membership of the SNABC provides a range of events that offer excellent network opportunities as well as direct, business to business, transatlantic contacts and introductions, making us the leading transatlantic trade and investment organisation. If you represent a Scottish business or organisation with North American interests or aspirations to become one, or are a North American business with Scottish or UK interests, it makes sense to become a member.

SNABC is an active member of the BritishAmerican Business Council – the largest transatlantic business network, with 25 chapters and 3,000 member companies, including many of the world's largest multinationals, based in major business centers throughout North America and the United Kingdom.

Our members can take advantage of our participation in the BABC to extend their own business network, and connect directly with the members of all its other chapters, through their exclusive access to the BABC’s password-protected Online Membership Directory, and by participating in the events run by the BABC’s other chapters at the local member rate, and in the BABC’s Annual Transatlantic Business Conferences.

The BABC will hold its next Annual Transatlantic Business Conference in Washington D.C., from April 29-May 1, 2009. Focusing on the theme ‘Strengthening Transatlantic Links’, this Conference offers an outstanding opportunity for high-level business discussion and networking with senior executives from both sides of the Atlantic.

The BABC also offers our members access to a broad range of other services including:

• its J1 Visa program, enabling member companies to bring qualified employees into the USA;
• extensive business databases providing detailed financial, descriptive and ownership information on the top 300,000 companies in 38 European countries and the top 350,000 US and Canada-based companies;
• a range of marketing opportunities to promote their goods and services to other member companies throughout the BABC network;
• a range of money-saving opportunities to take advantage of the discounts offered by other BABC member companies on their goods and services;
• regular business/economic updates (“Investment News’), prepared and circulated by the BABC for its member companies;
• regular policy updates (‘Policy Focus’), also circulated by the BABC for its member companies, summarizing major policy developments in Brussels, London and Washington, DC, and policy initiatives taken on behalf of the BABC’s member companies.

The BABC works closely with both the UK and US Governments, in the promotion of our mutual interests in the promotion of transatlantic business, and of the interests of our member companies.

Andrew Fulton represents SNABC on the BABC’s Board of Directors, which elects the President and Vice President of the BABC, and designates its Executive Committee, at its meeting immediately following the BABC’s Annual Transatlantic Conference in the Spring of each year.

For further information, simply browse the website or contact us.

How to join the SNABC

Get connected by joining BABC and SNABC's growing Membership Directory. Get noticed by promoting yourself via the BABC website. Get advice from our experts in law and accounting and receive updates on trade and economic policy.

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Membership Benefits – more bangs for your buck!

As a member of your regional chapter of the BABC, you have exclusive opportunities to develop business with 3,000 other member companies of the BABC, based in 25 other major business centers throughout North America and the UK, as well as to access other shared business services.

The BABC’s member companies include many of the world’s largest multinationals as well as thousands of middle-market companies. By definition, and their membership in the BABC, they are all pre-qualified as having an established interest in transatlantic business.

For example, you can:

• Develop business, and your business network, with companies in 25 other major business centers:
  • by accessing the BABC’s On-Line Membership Directory, listing the members of all its chapters (more than 10,000 executives). This Directory is accessible only to BABC members, though a member password provided by your regional chapter;
  • by participating in the event programs offered by the BABC’s chapters, on the same basis as their own members;
  • by networking directly with members of all the BABC’s chapters at our Annual Transatlantic Business Conferences;
  • by having a voice on policy issues affecting transatlantic/global business, through BritishAmerican Business Policy Group
  • for lawyers, by joining the British-American Group of Lawyers (BAGOL) established to share business and intelligence among their members

• Promote and market your company to other BABC companies throughout the network, via the BABC website:
  • by becoming a “Patron” of the BABC, offering exclusive visibility on the BABC homepage, as well as other benefits;
  • by taking advantage of the (modestly-priced) advertising and sponsorship opportunities;
  • by offering a discount on your services and products to other BABC members, via our Member Discounts facility.

• Save money by taking advantage of the discounts offered by other BABC member companies on their services and products, in fields such as travel, media, business intelligence and consumer.

• Gain business intelligence
  • by accessing the extensive business information databases, covering more than 500,000 North American and European companies, that are maintained for BABC members;
  • through the periodic updates issued by the BABC to its member companies on major trade/economic policy issues that impact on its members’ business interest.

• Facilitate international staff transfers:
  • by using our J1 Visa Program, enabling member companies of the BABC’s US chapters to bring qualified employees into the United States.

For further information about any of these opportunities, please contact Allan Hogarth at allan@snabc.org or 079822 50682.