Global Buyers Mission 2013 – September 5-7, 2013WHISTLER, BC – At the 10th annual Global Buyers Mission in Whistler, British Columbia, SPF Precut Lumber prominently exhibited and promoted Canadian softwood lumber exports to international buyers from all over the world. Throughout the event, SPF Precut Lumber had the opportunity to meet with new and existing customers, long-standing suppliers, and other important stakeholders. The SPF Precut Lumber team consisted of President Muhammad Amir, Fareed Amir, Mo Amir, and Lillian Chan. As it was the largest Global Buyers Mission to date, including international buyers from 23 countries around the world, SPF Precut Lumber – as a leader of BC softwood lumber exports – was well-positioned to promote BC forestry products. In fact, SPF Precut Lumber President, Muhammad Amir, was featured on the Global TV News Hour speaking about the importance of the event for the company. A BC Wood initiative, the Global Buyers Mission is a three-day, invitation-only networking / educational forum and tradeshow event developed to bring together qualified international buyers of wood products from around the world, with Canadian manufacturers and exporters of wood products. As a high-profile exhibitor for many years, SPF Precut Lumber takes great pride in leveraging its strong global reputation to promote Canadian forestry products overseas at this annual event. |
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TiE Young Entrepreneurs 2013 Global Business Plan Competition – June 15-16, 2013FAIRFAX, VA, USA – As a mentor for the TiE Vancouver’s Young Entrepreneur (TYE) Program, SPF Precut Lumber’s Mo Amir accompanied TYE Vancouver’s winning team – Care4Mankind – as a coach to Fairfax, Vermont, USA to compete in the global finals of the TiE Young Entrepreneurs 2013 Global Business Plan Competition at George Mason University. Competing against 15 other teams from across the globe, including cities in the USA, UK, and India, Care4Mankind would go onto win the competition – and the $10,000 grand prize – marking TYE Vancouver Chapter’s second straight championship win at the global competition. Care4Mankind is comprised of quadruplets Maxine, Michael, Michelle, and Monique (age 16), and their younger sister Celine (age 15). Winning TYE Vancouver’s regional finals with a business proposal for an innovative, painless, and affordable alternative to diabetic monitoring, Care4Mankind had spent over six months crafting their business plan and presentation to perfection before reaching the global finals. Their business proposal has already generated investor interest from across the globe through TiE’s global network. Joining Mo Amir as TYE Vancouver coaches were Rattan Bagga, Co-Chair of TYE Vancouver and CEO of New World Natural Foods Inc. and Vik Khanna, President of TiE Vancouver and Senior Vice-President / COO of Faronics Corporation. The TiE Young Entrpreneur (TYE) Program is a one-of-a-kind entrepreneur program focused on empowering teenage youth with leadership skills and business basics. The powerful curriculum delivers the essentials of business management in a simple manner by lecturers who are business leaders themselves. The insight into the world of entrepreneurship that high-school students receive over the course of the program give them a sense of preparedness that will be invaluable for their future success in the business world. TYE is one of the programs under TiE, a not-for-profit global organization with a mission to foster and support entrepreneurship. TiE was born spontaneously when a handful of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs with roots in the Indian subcontinent met by chance in 1992, conceiving the idea of an organization that would bring together business leaders for the purpose of networking. TiE is represented through chapters all over the world, including in the United States, India, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Israel, Malaysia, and Austria. In total, TiE has 56 chapters in 13 countries with over 11,000 professional members. TiE Vancouver is TiE’s first Canadian chapter. |
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Schweighofer Prize 2013 – June 4, 2013VIENNA, AUSTRIA - SPF Precut Lumber President, Muhammad Amir, was honoured to have been invited to the Schweighofer Prize 2013 event, hosted by The Schweighofer Group, a family-owned Austrian-based international holding primarily focused on the forest industry. In its sixth bi-annual year, the Schweighofer Prize awards visionary people with innovate ideas, technologies, products, and services that serve to strengthen the competitiveness and sustainability of forest management and wood utilization in Europe. The Schweighofer Prize is endowed with total prize money of € 300,000 before taxes, divided into one Main Prize and several Innovation Prizes. A weeklong celebration, including tours and functions for attendees, the major gala itself was held at the Vienna City Hall (Rathaus) on June 4, 2013. Attended by prominent members of the European business and academic community, in addition to high-ranking Austrian politicians, the Schweighofer Prize 2011 gala was highlighted by keynote speakers Austrian Federal Ministers DI Niki Berlakovich (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management) and Rudolf Hundstorfer (Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection), as well as Dr. Andreas Mailath-Pokorny (Viennese Municipal Councillor for Culture). The exclusive invitees included approximately 600 guests from 35 countries to attend this high-profile event. Always with grace and excitement, Schweighofer Group CEO, Gerald Schweighofer, was an excellent host of the Schweighofer Prize 2013. The Schweighofer family has been engaged in business for more than 360 years with a long-standing tradition in forestry and agriculture, in addition to being a pioneer in biomass for energy and a major real estate developer in Europe. Notably, the family’s Schweighofer Foundation is strongly committed to charity projects in Romania and Austria. SPF Precut Lumber is proud to call such a successful, innovative, and charitable organization as The Schweighofer Group its strategic partner in business. |
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8th Annual Dubai Wood Show – April 9-11, 2013DUBAI, UAE – Fresh off the heels of organizing and hosting the Introduction to Canadian Lumber Grading Seminar – the first-ever Canadian lumber grading seminar to be held in the Gulf region – SPF Precut Lumber exhibited at the 2013 Dubai International Wood & Wood Machinery Show, the regional landmark event for wood trade and investment at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre in the United Arab Emirates. Engineer Essa Al Haj Al Maidour, President of the Society of Engineers UAE inaugurated the show, as many foreign dignitaries from Cameroon, Congo, and Germany attended the opening ceremony. As an international ambassador of Canadian softwood lumber, SPF Precut Lumber enjoys a 53% majority market share of British Columbia lumber shipped to the Middle East. Its prominent presence and non-stop foot-traffic through its exhibition site was certainly indicative of SPF Precut Lumber’s market leadership. As regular exhibitors at the Dubai Wood Show, SPF Precut Lumber was proud to be a part of the biggest installment of the trade show to date. This year, the Dubai Wood Show hosted more than 550 global exhibitors from 40 countries, featuring international pavilions hosted by the United States, Canada, Germany, France, China, Malaysia, Cameroon, and Congo. To mark the occasion, SPF Precut Lumber also exhibited at its biggest, stand-alone space to date. SPF Precut Lumber President, Muhammad Amir, and Sales Manager for Asia-Pacific, Fareed Amir, represented SPF Precut Lumber with a prominent presence. Stuart Sing, General Manager of Canadian Mill Services Association, also made himself available during the tradeshow, as follow-up to SPF Precut Lumber’s grading seminar the day prior. As one of the best branded, most reputable, and highly outstanding exporters of Canadian softwood products to 20 countries around the world, the Dubai Wood Show gave SPF Precut Lumber the opportunity to meet with much of its diverse customer base in the Middle East, while also developing new relationships. In addition, SPF Precut Lumber was proud to market Sinclar Group and Boise Cascade – two of its key strategic partners – at this high-profile exhibition. Demonstrating its market leadership on the eve of the Dubai Wood Show, SPF Precut Lumber organized and hosted the first Canadian lumber grading seminar (An Introduction to Canadian Lumber Grading Seminar) ever held in the Gulf region, at the Hotel Ramada Dubai, featuring speakers from Canada’s Consulate and Trade Commission for the UAE, Western Forest Products, and Canadian Mill Services Association. The seminar attracted media attention in Canada and throughout the Gulf and was hailed as a great success by its attendees. As SPF Precut Lumber continues to create new market space for Canadian wood product exports to the Middle East, it looks forward to the continued development of the Dubai Wood Show for years to come. |
An Introduction to Canadian Softwood Lumber Grading Seminar presented by SPF Precut Lumber –
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Stuart Sing, Muhammad Amir, and Brad Flitton answer audience questions. |
TiE Young Entrepreneurs Venture Challenge –
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