Year-end Dutcham Dinner great success

The year-end Dutcham Dinner for members and friends was held in the Intercontinental Hotel in São Paulo on Wednesday November 26, and proved once more an enormous success. Several companies brought their business relations and executives, often accompanied by their husbands or spouses.

One of the major attractions was the performance of a theater group called Atelie Teatro, with the very funny actors Romina Boemer and Marcelo Cunha. Check out the photos and you will see that they provoked good laughs and grabbed full attention during the full duration of their entertainment. We can recommend this amazingly funny and tellented group for people who seek something different for their private or business parties. Have a look at www.atelieteatro.com.br

The photos (click here to see a larger selection), by the way, were taken by a Dutch professional photographer resident in São Paulo. He now owns a Disign Studio with Alexandra Ward and they offer their services to interested parties. His name is Henk Nieman, phone (55) 11 - 3875.6067 / 8243.7234, e-mail henk.nieman@gmail.com.  He actually looks like his logo:

Among the official sponsors of the event were: La Vigne, Unilever, Doceira Holandesa, Confeitaria Martin Holandesa, Galina Sheetikoff, Figwal, Gaia Silva Rolim & Associados, KLM-AirFrance, Hotel Intercontinental, Makro, and the Gelre Group.

A different special attraction proved to be very successful, being a "SILENT AUCTION":
Beautiful products (click here) could be bought for open prices without minimum. Thereto, anonymous bids were offered in small urns, sitting in front of each product on the exposure table. The suspense thus created during the whole dinner proved a working formula, because the final bids as received resulted in a collection of funds totaling
R$ 9.778,49, a welcome extra to balance the Chamber's finance as a self-supporting not-for-profit organization. The return for donators sat in the promotion of the products on display at the event, on the web-site and in the Holland Business Bulletin.

These were the products and their new owners:
1- A case with six bottles of wine Malbec Reserva Lurton: Fabiana Pragier - Active Invest
2- A case with six bottles of wine Cabernet Sauvignon Reserva Gran Lurton: Ênio Zaha - Gaia Silva Rolim & Associados
3- Baskets from Unilever: Andressa C. Rodrigues - Dutcham / Tássia Frade - Dutcham / Hans Mulder - Dutcham / Daan Bisseling - Vescom /  Sandrya Medeiros - Gaia Silva Rolim & Associados / Frank Wisbrun - Vopak / Luciana Moura - MAKRO / Fabiana Pragier - Active Invest / Adriana Cavalcanti – KLM Air France / Dionísio Petry - Figwal
4- A Bottle of wine Piedra Negra Malbec - Friesland Foods
5- An original painting by Galina Sheetikoff: Luciana Moura – MAKRO
6- Baskets from MAKRO: Hans Mulder - Dutcham / Andressa Rodrigues - Dutcham / Gustav Schindler - Unilever / Alexandre Tróia – Gaia, Silva, Rolim & Associados / Alexandre Sarian - Dutcham / Dionísio Petry - Figwal
7- Rodolfo Penteado Jewel: Hans Mulder - Dutcham
8- Basket Martin Holandesa: Adriana Cavalcanti - KLM-AirFrance
9- Basket Doceira Holandesa: Adriana Cavalcanti - KLM-AirFrance
10- Carmina Wiegerinck’ statuette :
Cônsul Louis Piët
11- Book Gelre "A Arte do Artesanato Brasileiro": Alexandre Ward
12-Ticket KLM São Paulo – Amsterdam - São Paulo: Dionísio Petry – Figwal
13- 42" Flatscreen TV from Philips: Cônsul Louis Piët

All in all, we did not exagerate last year, when we said that this event was born a tradition!