Chamber News

Last Friday VCCI organized its first bar stool event, inviting our current mentees an opportunity to present a sales pitch for their business to a room full of fellow business owners, the program’s mentors and supportive staff members from the Business Services team. After their pitch these talented individuals were able to share with the room some of the challenges, they are facing with solutions being discussed with the group. Those who presented include Christina Noel (Owner of Hope’s Child Care Centre), John Toara & Harrison Samson (Owners of Tirow Construction), Esther Philip (Owner Esther Philip Catering) and Sherley Pata (Owner of Tiwi Trader Shipping). This event was organized to assist our businesses who are part of our current mentoring activities cohort to network and…

Chers membres, Nous sommes ravis d’annoncer que nous tiendrons notre Forum national gouvernement-entreprises 2021, qui se tiendra du 13 au 14 octobre. L’ordre du jour complet sera publié sous peu, mais nous pouvons partager avec vous que nous allons produire un rapport mis à jour « Perspectives économiques du point de vue du secteur privé » pour 2021. Ce rapport sera similaire à celui de l’année dernière, que vous trouverez ici, et visera à fournir un aperçu à jour de la situation générale de nos différents secteurs d’activité en ces temps difficiles. Nous sommes occupés à interviewer des entreprises pour ce rapport, et merci à tous ceux qui ont donné de leur temps jusqu’à présent. La contribution de tout le monde est indispensable. C’est pourquoi…

So much has changed in our new global COVID world, yet sometimes its’ easy to think here in Vanuatu our life is not affected – given there have been no community cases and for many people life goes on similarly as before. But for most businesspeople, there is a very real COVID effect. Sophie Tariliu was running a successful and well-known kava business in Port Vila pre-COVID. As people lost jobs in multiple industries many of them opened new kava businesses. So competition in the kava sector increased and as a result the returns were dropping. Sophie and her husband Richard Mera noticed the changes right away and knew they would need to react quickly when Sophie noticed there was a ‘for rent’ sign in…

Dear Members, As you know the borders are currently closed to repatriations. This is to give the country time to get as organized as it can in case COVID makes its way to Vanuatu. For all of you that have attended the COVID Safe Business operations training its time to take action and implement what you learnt. Please watch the video here to get inspired. If you need a refresher or any help at all please contact us at sbo@vcci.vu or call 27543. Vaccines are of vital importance so encourage your staff to go and get jabbed today, Let’s be ready! Workshop in Santo VCCI would like to thank all our business men and women who attended our workshops in Luganville this week. We had…

The Vanuatu Chamber of Commerce and Industry seeks a Finance, Human Resource and Administration Manager whose major function will be to supervise the financial, human resource and administrative operations of the organisation in cooperation with the General Manager. This role is an executive role and as such we are looking to recruit someone with the right experience, and who is a natural fit to the existing team. Under the supervision of the General Manager, the Finance, Human Resource and Administration Manager’s main responsibilities encompass: Financial management and reporting for the organisation – including collecting, interpreting, and reviewing financial information and reporting to the Council, and supervising the finance and accounting services staff. Human resources management – including recruitment and training, and ensuring appropriate procedures are…