KJCC business networking brings together Cambodia’s biggest investors (gallery)

KJCC business networking brings together Cambodia’s biggest investors (gallery)
Advertisement
Online English lessons

South Korean, Japanese, and Chinese firms make up the lions share of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Cambodia, accounting for a combined total of more than 1,500 projects.

From Phnom Penh’s first real shopping mall and towering office towers, and condominiums all way down to restaurants and even hospitals, companies from China, South Korea, and Japan lead the field in total investment value and number of projects.

It’s not surprising that a business networking night catering to those nationals, in addition to Khmer business owners and operators, will be well particularly well patronised in a city where new projects commence and reach completion in what appears to be record periods of time. Everyone wants to know what everyone else is up to and where there might be opportunities for those with established operations.

Organised by a group of four established Cambodian businesses –  Couponking, coupon media for Cambodians by Japanese, Phnom, a Japanese magazine, Enjoy Cambodia, a Chinese magazine, Peoplen, a Korean HR company – the ‘KJCC Business Networking Night’s’ have been running twice a year for two years.

According to Yuji Kiyono, a spokesperson for the organisers, each subsequent KJCC Business Networking Night draws an increasingly large gathering from the who’s who in Cambodia foreign invested projects.

As a social networking event the 4th KJCC Business Networking Night couldn’t have been more of a success. Among the more than 300 attendees at the the most recent gathering were the country heads of large, multi-national corporations through to online business start-up owners and food and beverage suppliers.

“We started organising these events as a way for people to connect with others also investing and doing business in Cambodia. As a result of the KJCC business networking events several companies have generated new sales channels. Several others have established new projects specifically to supply people they met at one of the KJCC business networking nights”, Mr Kiyono said.

While the event is titled as being a business networking night for Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Cambodian business owners, Mr Kiyono said business owners of any nationality are welcome to attend.

“So far we have about an equal representation of people from each of the four nationalities (Chinese, Khmer, Korean, Japanese), but anyone who might be interested in extending their business network in Cambodia in a relaxed setting is welcome, Mr Kiyono added.

The next KJCC Business Networking Night will be held in May next year, with updated information being posted closer to the event on the KJCC Business Networking Night Facebook page.

 

KJCC business networking night slide gallery

 

Photos John Le Fevre

 

 

The following two tabs change content below.

John Le Fevre

Thailand editor at AEC News Today

John is an Australian national with more than 40 years experience as a journalist, photographer, videographer, and copy editor.

He has spent extensive periods of time working in Africa and throughout Southeast Asia, with stints in the Middle East, the USA, and England.

He has covered major world events including Operation Desert Shield/ Storm, the 1991 pillage in Zaire, the 1994 Rwanda genocide, the 1999 East Timor independence unrest, the 2004 Asian tsunami, and the 2009, 2010, and 2014 Bangkok political protests.

In 1995 he was a Walkley Award finalist, the highest awards in Australian journalism, for his coverage of the 1995 Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) Ebola outbreak.

Prior to AEC News Today he was the deputy editor and Thailand and Greater Mekong Sub-region editor for The Establishment Post, predecessor of Asean Today.

In the mid-80s and early 90s he owned JLF Promotions, the largest above and below the line marketing and PR firm servicing the high-technology industry in Australia. It was sold in 1995.

Support independent media by sharing using these tools. Do not steal our content

Make a comment

Your email address will not be published.