Dear AmCham Members, Partners, Newsletter Readers and Friends,
Welcome to your AmCham.lu Digital Newsletter issue number 151! We are happy to bring you, your companies and your family members expat and business focused English language news to keep you informed and help you successfully work and live in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Thank you for reading this free publication and thank you for sharing it with your colleagues and friends. If you are not yet subscribed, please send an email to Anne@amcham.lu with your name and contact details and she will sign you up to receive this weekly digital Newsletter. Be assured that as much as we would love for you to sign up and join our AmCham family as a paying member, we are happy to offer you a free subscription to this weekly digital magazine, as we consider this digital magazine part of our public service support to all interested persons.
AmCham is the largest private Chamber of Commerce in Luxembourg. We are accredited by the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington DC and an affiliated founding member of the Federation of American Chambers of Commerce in Europe (ACE) which can be found in every European country. We are proud to deliver four services to our members:
- Networking (in English language), to help our members, partners and friends to connect with each other and with the important decisions leaders of the country.
- Information sharing, to help our members understand the policies, rules, customs and style of how Luxembourg works… so our members understand how to get things done (the right way!) so they avoid problems and are successful with their interactions.
- Problem solving, to help our members by finding and encouraging the implementation of policies and procedures that deliver optimal results in the most efficient and successful manner.
- Engagement with influential decision makers (both governmental and private sector leaders) to ensure the needs of the expat and business communities are appropriately taken into consideration and fairly treated in the full range of policies, procedures and regulatory requirements.
Our membership is 30% US companies, 20% Luxembourgish companies and 50% companies from around the world. So, we warmly welcome all nationalities and passport holders and are proud to be a melting pot entity which broadly supports diversity, multiculturalism and fully understands the important contributions of our members and their employees to keep Luxembourg strong and the best place in Europe for international people and companies to work and live… in partnership with our Luxembourg hosts and friends.
We strive to do this by being honest, hard-working, innovative, creative… and kind.
We hope you like that we are doing our best to deliver results which meet your needs and expectations. We are your servants and welcome always your feedback, suggestions, criticisms and ideas.
Our featured Newsletter interview this week comes from DuPont de Nemours and has been inspired by the recent official opening of their new Tyvek manufacturing facility in Contern in the presence of the Grand Duke and an impressive collection of important Luxembourg government and business leaders. I encourage you to read this interview. At a time when many companies have high staff turnover rates and difficulty keeping staff, and while many companies say that Luxembourg is too expensive for manufacturing, and unions complain about their relations with corporate leaders, DuPont experiences none of these problems! I honestly think there are some great and very wise pieces of advice for other people to follow. Please read and enjoy!
Also included are 8 other interesting news articles of interest from our members, a great Thai chicken and vegetable salad recipe…. And a very wise weekly quote:
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn”
Excellent advice very much worth applying!
I wish you a great end-of-the-week and weekend!
With respect and my very best wishes,
Paul Schonenberg
Chairman and CEO
AMCHAM.lu
