ISO
CONGRESS 2005 - 14.-16. APRIL 2005
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COPENHAGEN, DGI-BYEN HOTEL
Thursday,
April 14
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12.00 Registration opens in the hotel foyer.
Light lunch can be
served in the Hotel restaurant at own expense.
13.00
MC-meeting (ISO’s Management Committee), MC-members only.
13.30
Spouses or interested early registrants can participate in a guided sight-seeing
and shopping-
tour,
18-24
Get-together, SPISEHUSET. Welcome drink.
IS-O-Lympic
Games start!
There will be a large, cold buffet
and bar open all evening.
Those who in advance has registered
their interest in the competitions will during the
evening
participate in the chosen disciplines, hopefully under the audience’s heavy
cheers!
At the early registration in advance
of the Congress, all participants may indicate, in which
disciplines
they want to compete, and whether they do it individually or as a national or
company team
member, and all earn points for both their efforts and results. Welcome to the arrival Terminal, Copenhagen Airport
Choose among Bowling,
Riffle shooting, Boule/Petanque, Football (indoor
teams of 2x3),
Basket-“dunk”, Swimming (in the
mornings), Wall-climbing, Poker and Shopping (until
Saturday afternoon included).
At this event you will really get
to know al your colleagues in ISO!
Friday, April 15
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7-8.15
Breakfast, an area in the Restaurant is for ISO members only, so we can remind
ourselves
and each
other of the previous night’s successes!
8.30 Bus departure. Visit to Fritz Hansen
Furniture factory in Allerød, the Arne Jacobsen “7”
chairs etc.
Modern, automated manufacturing in an all new factory.
ITAB check-out production/assembly
and showroom, Danish branch of
largest
shopfitting group of companies, BLB and NBF members.
11.30 Juncker’s Industries, Køge,
The largest sawmill in
Demonstration of the manufactoring,
waste problems and product information.
Lunch.
Spouses’ programme: Guided tour of old Køge,
visit to the “Sketch Collection” (
Gobelins, the original cast for the
Little Mermaid), The Church,
Lunch.
Spouses and delegates are picked up
for the return trip via....
Royal
15.00 Flash-Light A/S, Karlslunde,
shop light systems, showroom and introduction, refreshments.
On request: A brief stop at an
attractive, new Shopping Centre or Flagship Store along the
route, but
most important:
Arrival back at DGI Byen Hotel in time for changing.....
19.30
Diner at Restaurant Paafuglen.
Plenty of varied amusements and free
entertainment is optional, including big fireworks by
Saturday April 16, The Danish Queen Margrethe’s birthday, Flags all over town!
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7-9.00
Breakfast in the ISO area of the Restaurant.
9 -10. General Assembly -
ISO business.
Economic state in the
member countries. Questions and answers!
10-12 Business seminars
incl. coffee-break:
1:
The ISO
interior contractors’ factfinding tour and
2: Former
3: Panel discussion: Moderator, speakers and experts: Advantages
in
(Questions and answers in French or German are translated by members of
the audience) Qeen’s birthday, Amalienborg
Castle
12.30 Bus departure for Field’s,
designer
Arne Jacobsens lounge, information about the Center and/or individual stroll
around,
lunch with spouses there or later....
9 -13 Spouses programme: “Strøget”
stores that
first time visitors to
thursday), Gobelins at
Little Mermaid and the new Opera
seen from across the harbour, and then.....
The new METRO to Field’s in Ørestaden, lunch altogether there or later.
(Please note that the Congress
programme leaves plenty of opportunities for individual
arrangements.
You may quit here (stay in
for more
details or individual arrangements) or come along to
Copenhagen Metro, new 2004
14.00 Bus departure from Field’s across the
16 km Øresund connection, pass the “Turning Torso”,
from ANY customers!
Open all Saturdays and Sundays, It is so big for a suburban center,
that we
suggest pre-selection of stores according to individual interests:
- Go as you please with friends and
colleagues!
- Food:
- Home/D.I.Y: My Home, MIO, Bauhaus, BYGG-MAX, Harald Nyborg etc.
Furniture stores
on IKEA owned land, but no Ikea, come and hear
why!
The
- Non-Food/Fashion: Sko-Punkten, Engelbrechtsboden,
Brand-stores and minimum 4 sports
outlets,
85 stores alone in the central building!
How do they all
survive? And is it Quality or Discount shopfitting attracting the customers?
See for yourself in an hour, we need
to go home and change for the Congress’ highlight:
19.00 Welcome drink in DGI Byen
“SPISEHUSET”, diner and dance to “Bjarnes” discrete
but
popular
one-man dance band.
And the excitement,
that we can hardly endure longer, is over:
The GOLD, SILVER and BRONZE Medals
of the first ever IS-O-LYMPIC GAMES are
awarded to
the proud winners, individual as well as company and national teams.
Sunday, April 17
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7.00 - LATE! Breakfast, reserved area in the Restaurant
again, so our sad, tear-drenched parting
with new and
old friends does not disturb other hotel guests that do not comprehend, how
much we have
experienced in 3 days - TOGETHER!
Departure,
full of new impressions, knowledge and contacts, that enriches our lives and
future, and makes our daily business easier, more profitable until we meet
again.
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Advance
registration is accepted from
Expected price
per delegate/spouse is Euro 495/295.
Hotel in double room per person/night Euro 77, extra for single person
Euro 60.
Formal
invitations with exact prices and deadlines shall soon be available.
Anticipate
last time for booking to be at the EUROSHOP, Düsseldorf, 19.-23. February 2005,
where you will find the undersigned at booth 13-C/39, sponsored by Flash-Light
A/S.
Call
upon us and hear more of this fantastic event of the Shopfitting Trade and
Industry.
Preben
Bailey
on behalf
of the ISO Management Committee
Thornberg
- Bailey AB
Skogsvägen
6
S-240 12
Tel: +46
4653 202, Fax: +46 4653 229, e-mail: iso@thbailey.com
Individual
service, offered free of charge by the ISO information office:
Please also
contact us, if you are interested in additional
arrangements while visiting
We are with pleasure at your service.
Preben Bailey.
2004.11.15