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09/12/2009 What’s good for the goose – celebrating business links across Europe

Celebrating with the British Chamber of Commerce in SlovakiaIt’s not just Christmas that gets celebrated this time of year, of course – it’s good practice for all businesses to celebrate their successes – but it is the season of goodwill, and a time to share it with those we work alongside. As a British-based company that has been successfully forging links and expanding operations in Eastern Europe for several years, we were glad to recently see that the British Chamber of Commerce in Slovakia believe in celebrating too.

As you can see from the photo, they’ve been researching their history too. According to the historians, Henry VIII thought that best geese in all of Europe came from Slovakia. And although Henry is also thought to have been the first Brit to have eaten turkey as a Christmas dinner (although probably as a mere amuse bouche), goose was the traditional dish: indeed, his daughter, Elizabeth I, later ordered that everyone in England should eat goose every Christmas to celebrate her navy’s defeat of the Spanish Armada.  So the choice of theme for the British Chamber of Commerce’s Christmas part in Bratislava was ... Henry VIII. Among those pictured enjoying the traditional goose feast are Michael Roberts, the British Ambassador to Slovakia; John Barter, the BCC in Slovakia Chairman;  two directors of BAe Systems, and our own MD, Stewart Bailey.

But this is far from the first time that Virtual Viewing has had good reason to celebrate the links that we have been forging in Europe. In summer 2005, we opened a new European Office in Bratislava, Slovakia’s historic capital, bringing true multi-lingual capabilities into our portfolio of talents and enabling us – and our customers – enjoy the benefits of EU expansion (including mobility of labour, openness of markets, minimisation of ‘red tape’ and the protection of EU law) as well as those of cost-effective business location in Central Europe.

Since then, our presence in Slovakia has born a variety of fruits - including a major contract to produce 3D models of some of Bratislava’s most prestigious developments. As a rapidly developing commercial and business centre, the city also has an accompanying burgeoning residential development sector. We have been able to deploy the Virtual Viewing team’s architectural modelling skills to support developers both in the design and marketing of developments, including the development of animated flythroughs as part of a high quality, integrated marketing campaign.
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