J DANISH AMERICAN CHAMBER 0 NEW YORK F COMMERCE 825 Third Avenue 32 New York NY • nd Floor I 10022-7519 212-980-6240 NEWSLETTER January-February 1988 ~rup (2121 752-3448 NOMINATING COMMITTEE Sri:en Huge-Jensen <201 I 469·-64 76 In accordance with To:sten Schmidt ( 2121 223-4545 Committ h our 8 y-Laws, the Executive ~rte skett Tulet < 2121 223-4545 and ~e as appointed Seren Svenningsen to chair (fristian Juul Jessen <212 I 254-4168 se ect member ■ for this year's Nominatln CNommittee for the election of Board Members to th; ew York Chamber. GOOD-BY! TO CONSUL GENERAL V. VILLADSEN Selected for the Committee are: During the Christmas luncheon in December approx, Tage. Benjaminsen (212) 355-2424 200 members and their guests said good-bye to Niels Olsen <201> 799-0621 consul General and Mrs. Villada Vil ladsen. lnud Serensen <201) 756-9710 Per Vranum (2011 725-6399 Al usual the luncheon was booked to capacity, and the traditional Christmas atmosphere was sparkled The membership at large 11ay present their by Villada Villadsen 'a speech, which brought tears suggestions for Board candidates for consideration to the eyes of the members. Not that they were to any member of the Nominating Committee. overcome by Christmas emotion, but the Consul General held one of. his many humoristic speeches. Seren Svenningsen can be reached at (2011 272-4433 After his speech Chairman Flemming Sederlund EN presented DACC I s gift to Mr • Villadsen, a voice Mrs. Susanne activated tape recorder. DINING AND DANCING IS ON THE AGENDA Valeur-Jensen presented Mrs. Villadsen with a brooch. for the Chamber's March meeting. On Friday ':'Arch 18, 1988, the OACC will have its annual Dinner The Villadsens left New York in early February for Dance at Hotel Waldorf Astoria's Starlight Roof. hPenhagen, where Mr. Villadsen will meet ne: Please make a note in your calendar. \ J allenges in a position with the Ministry 0 Foreign Affairs, An• excellent. dinner is planned, as well as dancing to the enticing tunes of Walter Ericsons cs orchestra, Look for invitat i on and details in the mail, !!,gJf CONSUL GENERAL IN NEW YORI EN The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has appointed Consul General Leif Oonde new Consul General in New York. AMERICAN TIVOLI page 5 Le if Donde will arrive in the beg i nn ing of c Marchnsul fro111 Hong 'Kong, where he has se-rved ~s c~reer General since 1984 Mr Donde started his and in 1965 as Commercial• Attach~• .c. in• tcuala LUlllpur,1979 he 1ater served in Singapore and Toronto.M.nistry1 of th lfas appointed Head of Division at e in DANISH TAXES page 7 Foreign Affairs. TOTAL 60 % " Hr, oonde during any DACC members will have met his frequent visits to New York. cs reserved. Writt.en All rights f the Newsletter. form- Copyright by the edi}~~sr~production in any permission required -2- NEW MEMBERS PROM THE CULTURAL CORNER We welcome the following new members to the DACC: On March 4, 1988, the Danish/French co-pr •BABETTE'S FEAST• wi 11 premi~re at Linc Oductton INDIVIDUAL Cinema, Broadway at 62-63rd Streets. oln Plai. Set in the late 19th century this film Jergen Kjergaard Madsen based on a short story by the Danish auth"'hicb i1 Attorney-at-Law Blixen, has already won acclaim at seve:\ Kareo 240 Mercer Street festivals around the world and has been cha fihi New York, NY 10012 the Danish entry for best foreign film Osca~~en •• Carl C. Wilhjelm In their ongoing series of cultural event Scandinavian American World Tours, Inc. Danish Seamen's Church, 102 Willow Sts the 795 Franklin Avenue Brooklyn, NY, will host a concert by the VI~~~~• Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 DUO on April 13, 1988. """D C201) 891-6641 The duo will perform music by Danish compos Carl Nielsen, Peder Gram, Finn Hoffding, Travel agency with Scandinavia as their specialty Viggo Bentzon and others. tu:~~• , E. Nielsen MARIANNE ENGBERG has done it again! Nielsen Communications Ltd. A series of beautiful photographs with her pinhole 128 Warncke Road camera. This is an old and very simple, although Wilton, CT 06897 not easy, way of photography. (203) 762-9976 This time the subject is Scotland. Earl!D exhibitions include Greenland, Jerusalem i. International Publishing Copenhagen. On view at the Bertha Urdang Gallery, 23 E. 74th Street, NY, April 5-30, 1988. Greta Ostbirk Aalborg Energy Consultants Inc. Mark your calendars now for the ROYAL DANISH 300 Knickerbocker Road BALLET' s guest performance at the Metropolitan Cresskill, NJ 07626 Opera House at Lincoln Center June 14-18, 1988, The program consists of two Bournonville ballets: Trading company specializing in solid fuels and Napoli and Abdallah. fuel-related technology The young, t.alented Danish ar!:-·ist, ANNE JEPSEN, . Claus J. Rasmussen exhibits her ·paintings at the Consulate General of Buckfield Lane Denmark, 825 Third Avenue, NY, February 4 through Greenwich, CT 06830 May 4, 1988. (203) 869-0848 Private viewing by appointment only: (2121 529-7130. KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OP THE DANNEBROG, 1ST DEGREE Anita Rasmussen A leading u.s. importer of fish from Denmark and Greenland, Mr. Paul Bloch, Danland Seafood Corp., A NATIONAL MEETING OP ALL DANISH AMERICAN CHAMB~ ! was recently appointed Knight of the Order of the OP COMMERCE Dannebrog of the 1st Degree. ill will be held in San Francisco March 11-12, 198 1 I The decoration was presented to Mr. Bloch by with the purpose of achieving closer co-operation Consul General Villada Villadsen, New York, between all DACC chapters. cs The ways and means of accomplishing better exchange will be the focus of the meeti~i scheduled for Saturday, March 12, 1988, from 11 • MORE AQUAVIT am to approx. 3 pm. d will After its recent opening the Scandinavian The Wes tern DACC wi 11 host the mee~ing, an dinner restaurant Aquavit is negotiating to rent more open the conference with a black tie gala f honor space at its location in the Rockefeller Town on Friday evening, March 11, 1988. Guests O eles, House, owned by Pr i vatbanken . The restaurant was will be the Dan ish Consul General in Los A~g neral celebrated by DACC at a reception on January 26. and Mrs. Henning Rr istiansen. The _consul e will host a reception Saturday evening. This new phenomenon in ethnic cuisine on Manhattan nference, has caused some media attention. The New York All members are invited to attend th i s co re you Ti111es sent out a food critic to sample the food If you plan to be on the West Coast, make su and offered its readers an evaluation of the are in San Francisco March 11-12. siaerrebredueddel at Aquavit. To register your participation please calli Por your inform.at ion the address is: 13 West 54th Street, Phon~: 307-7311. 240 East Coast DACC: sec re tar iat ( 212 > 980-6 6~~-9350 Pres. Pl. S•derlund < 20l I 855_3959 CJJ Midwest DACC: Jorn Andersen (SAS) (312> Western DACC: Roy Bork (818)442-9310 EN V -3- !2!1.--CHRISTMAS LUNCHEON THB DANISH ECONOMY ( PROVI.IISBANXEN A/S) The Chamber's Annual Christmas luncheon at the university Club on December 11, 1987, was enjoyed ~st autuan•s general election created a very t>Y a fully packed banquet room of members and diffi~ult and unstable political situation. 'ftJe their guests. In addition to a fine program led by election polarized the Folketing (the Danish werner valeur-Jensen, an amusing speech by Consul Parliament) by strengthening the extreaes. The General Villada Villadsen, and an excellent lunch, ?overnment therefore now faces i.aense probleas in each member and guest received a much appreciated its ~ttempts. to secure a parliaaentary -jority •care package• as they left. The contents of the fo~ its policies. Since current opinion pol1s packages was made possible by generous donations point to a further increase in popular support for from the following: the parties on the extreae left and right, it is more than likely that the ainority center-right carlsberg Government vill have a hard time holding on to Citibank N.A. power. 0' Clairol oandy Foods Despite the unsettled situation in the Folketing, oenmark Cheese Association agreement has been reached on a n11111ber of issues. oanish Distillers Ltd. aempel Co. Among the concrete results are the so-called Lego Systems •export package• and the restructuring of Plumrose USA employers' payments and contributions and sickness Royal Copenhagen/Bing & Gr0ndahl benefit payments. The introduction of these Tholstrup. Cheese measures was prompted by the increasingly deteriorating balance of payments and the .lfl'-lger Anderson made facilities and personnel at prospects for a massive increase in unemployaent • ~'\..civatbanke~ available for storing and packing the The decline in competitiveness that followed in bags, supplied by the Danish Tourist Board. Among the wake of last year's relatively large pay the volunteers who gave their time and energy for increases and the dollar fall thus necessitated assembling the bags were Karsten Hess, Frances and political measures to restore competitiveness. Henry Greenebaum, Ed Lichtenhagen, Erik Norup, Lennard Rambusch, and Carsten Schmidt. Our The export package includes advance payment of Secretary Winnie Emmery was a fine coordinator. export value added tax and increased tax deductability for R & D costs. Henry Greenebaum The restructuring of employers' payments and contributions and sickness benefit payments SCANDINAVIAN TRADE OPPORTUNITIES involves the abolition of employers' contributions to five labor market schemes. Instead, a tax will On March 10, 1988, the Scandinavian-American be levied on the VAT basis of businesses.