The Chamber of Commerce East Lancashire has an extremely dynamic Commercial department which is made up of 4 elements. These elements are:
The Commercial department has a comprehensive portfolio of products and services designed to embrace the business needs of today's demanding environment, regardless of the size of your company, or the number of your employees. This is thanks to the negotiations undertaken by Chamber Supply Chain on your behalf. These products and services have been created to support businesses in areas where these products are required as an essential requirement in their day to day operational activities. The ultimate objective is that the Chamber can deliver these 
products into your business to reduce your operating costs, contribute to your profitability and improve your competitiveness. In the past 3 years Commercial products and Services along with Chamber Supply Chain have assisted North West companies in business transactions in excess of £26m pounds. It is very important to note that all commercial products and services are available to every company no matter the size or profile*. Where applicable these products and services are made available to employees. (refer commercial services for the full content of the products available)
* Some services are only available to fully paid Chamber Members.
For details on these, please contact the Commercial Team
Chamber Events delivers dedicated tailored Events, Seminars, Exhibitions and Meet the Supplier/Buyer events that are truly business related. Workshops on "How to Win Business in the Public Sector" Negotiate Skills, and E Auctions are just a few that have recently been held. We listen to businesses as to what concerns them and what they require information on and deliver an event to give them the advice they need. We specialise in exhibitions that are sector or commodity related such as business to business events like "East Meets West", commodity exhibitions involving the food sector as in "Taste of the North West". The Chamber also specialise in dedicated "Meet the Supplier/Buyer" events with major blue chip companies like B&Q, Safeways and Somerfield and Public Sector organisations. These "Meet the Supplier/Buyer" events give North West Business the opportunity to have a face to face interview with the purchasing managers from these prestigious high street and public sector organisations, something that would be nigh impossible to achieve without the support of the Chambers Commercial team.
This department is made up of professional specialists who have expertise in areas of Purchasing & Supply, Logistics, Materials Management, World Class Manufacturing, Technical Engineering and Market Research. No other Chamber in the UK has this expertise in house. Chamber Supply Chain delivers projects for the North West Regional Development Agency, Local Authorities via specific funded programmes, European programmes via ERDF, programmes for Business Link Lancashire, Groundwork, The Small Business Service and Private Businesses. These programmes are delivered across the geographical footprint of the North West of England. Chamber Supply Chain services are made available to all companies across the North West and where applicable are delivered free of charge thanks to public funding from our strategic partners.
Chamber Supply Chain Training has a specialist provision to afford both public and private sector organisations tailored training in all aspects of procurement. Courses are delivered on site within the client’s premises or in the Chambers state of the art training and conference suites. Training courses include: Purchasing, Negotiation, Relationship Management, Influencing Skills, Legal, Contract Management, Stores Management, Operations Management and specialist provision for clients with a unique requirement.
No matter what your business needs are I invite you to take advantage of the Commercial activities of the Chamber of Commerce East Lancashire. I guarantee you will reap significant benefits from developing a relationship with the Commercial team.
Stewart Maloney
Commercial Director
