World Chambers Network (WCN), the online international business platform for chambers of commerce, is breaking new ground. One month after its redesign in July 2005, the WCN site (
www.worldchambers.com
) was rated number seven in the world by Google top business directories (
www.google.com/Top/Business/Directories
). By the end of October, with an audience estimated at 100 000 visitors per month, it had climbed its way up to number five.
The World Chambers Network (WCN) chamber of commerce links 12 000 chambers of commerce from around the world to one central site. Since its creation in 1997, WCN is actively consulted by companies from across the world looking for international business information and contacts and wishing to promote their products or services through WCN’s chamber of commerce and member company network. Its global reach is demonstrated by the 100 countries in which companies have signed up as WCN registered members.
WCN is a joint project managed by the ICC World Chambers Federation (WCF) and the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIP), with the support of all the main transnational chamber of commerce and industry (CCI) organizations. It is the only global portal of the chamber of commerce network and focuses its action on promoting trusted electronic international e-trade.
The most popular areas of the WCN are:
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Chamber Directory, giving access to more than 12 000 Chambers. This service has been recently enhanced allowing chambers to upload their brochures online;
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Ch
amberTrust directory of companies displaying an electronic seal of validation (a trust-mark) on their website;
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International Trade Fairs & Exhibitions database, a new feature which has just been added;
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Chamber e-Vault (trusted electronic safe), a service to be launched soon.
The original cornerstone of WCN, GBX Business Opportunities, providing international trade and investment opportunities from companies, is also still active and popular.
WCN is now really the "trusted international e-trade portal" of the CCI network, showing its ability “to think global and act local” said Georges Fischer, Chairman of WCN.
