THE multi-awarded Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (DCCCII) did it again, winning an award organized by the Confederation of Asia-Pacific Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CACCI) based in Taiwan.
This was announced by DCCCII chairman John Y. Gaisano Jr., who attended the annual award with President Bonifacio T. Tan in Taipei.
Gaisano said the DCCCII was adjudged first runner-up in the international contest next to an all-woman chamber of commerce in Bangladesh, the first of its kind in the world.
Gaisano did a video presentation of the core values, brief history and impressive projects of the local chamber.
CACCI, dubbed the “herald of Asian economic cooperation and prosperity, is a 50-year-old confederation which had its beginnings in the Philippines.
On February 15-20, 1965, some 400 representatives of chambers of the commerce and other trade organizations from various countries in Asia gathered in Manila for an Asian conference of chambers of commerce under the theme “Asian Progress Through Economic Cooperation.”
In CACCI’s history it says “the Manila Conference was significant to Asian businessmen and to the region’s population, not only for the study in made on vital and current economic problems of Asia, but also because it heralded the unification of chambers of commerce in the region. It was the harbinger of a potent regional economic cooperation.”
Among the pioneers of the confederation were Filipino business leaders Demetrio Munoz, Fred J. Elizalde, Aurelio Periquet, Alfonso T. Yuchengco and Ambassador V. Jujuico, who worked for the confederation with other businessmen from Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Australia, India and Indonesia at the time.
Today, Gaisano said, CACCI has 27 member countries with 48 members chambers of commerce and industry and more than 300 lifetime special members.
At the same time, the DCCCII Comelec committee, headed by past president Bienvenido Cariaga, announced that the 15 current and new members of the DCCCII board of officers will meet this afternoon in the chamber’s conference room to elect the new chairman, president and other officers of the chamber who will serve during the incoming 12 months of 2017.
