Our members can take advantage of our participation in the BABC to extend their own business network, and connect directly with the members of all its other chapters, through their exclusive access to the BABC’s password-protected Online Membership Directory, and by participating in the events run by the BABC’s other chapters at the local member rate, and in the BABC’s Annual Transatlantic Business Conferences.

The BABC will hold its next Annual Transatlantic Business Conference in London, from May 12-14, 2010.  This Conference offers an outstanding opportunity for high-level business discussion and networking with senior executives from both sides of the Atlantic.

The BABC also offers our members access to a broad range of other services including:

• its J1 Visa program, enabling member companies to bring qualified employees into the USA;
• extensive business databases providing detailed financial, descriptive and ownership information on the top 300,000 companies in 38 European countries and the top 350,000 US and Canada-based companies;
• a range of marketing opportunities to promote their goods and services to other member companies throughout the BABC network;
• a range of money-saving opportunities to take advantage of the discounts offered by other BABC member companies on their goods and services;
• regular business/economic updates (“Investment News’), prepared and circulated by the BABC for its member companies;
• regular policy updates (‘Policy Focus’), also circulated by the BABC for its member companies, summarizing major policy developments in Brussels, London and Washington, DC, and policy initiatives taken on behalf of the BABC’s member companies. 

The BABC works closely with both the UK and US Governments, in the promotion of our mutual interests in the promotion of transatlantic business, and of the interests of our member companies.  

Trevor Parkes represents BABC Houston on the BABC’s Board of Directors, which elects the President and Vice President of the BABC, and designates its Executive Committee, at its meeting immediately following the BABC’s Annual Transatlantic Conference in the Spring of each year.