Financial
Markets
Outlook
Asia Tour
... The Annual Financial Markets
Outlook Asia tour kicked off in
Hong Kong on 8 September
2008. It moved onto Shanghai
on 9 September, Taiwan on
12 September and ended in
Singapore on 17 September.
Closing
weekend
Tour de France
... What? Rl network event
Tour de France 2009
WWJuly 2009
What?Tour de France
When? 5-27 July 2008
... "We have the green, one stage win,
and a man in the top five. We simply
had a good Tour," said Manager Erik
Breukink about the Rabo cycling
results in the Tour de France of 2008.
The 95th Tour de
-pronged policy, divided
between sports and culture, bas ensured a
winning line-up of sponsor ed events,
including Floriade (a Dutcb horticultural
event beid every ten years) and tbe Tour
de France. Vincent Pijpers
Heemskerk has begun a tour to discuss implementa-
tion of the 2006-2010 strategy with each of the
Regional Heads (see sidebar).
, buildings and people safe.
We also talk to Bert Heemskerk about his tour of the regions, and his ambi-
tious vision for the bank in the next five years.
'Live' (internal and external) clients provided direct feedback in tour 'dient zones' to
help delegates see things from the dient's perspective. Issues raised induded the selec-
tion criteria that
opportunity to tour the exhibits
and listen to a special presentation by Russell
Shorto, author of the book 'Island at the Center
of the World', on how the Dutch came to found
New York.
Rabobank looked at Belgium
as a potential second home
market, since many Belgians
already know the bank partly due to its sponsorship of
popular road cycling races, such as the Tour de France
As an active, global borrower, Rabobank looks after a sizeable
population of major international investors. Senior
management, often including the CFO, regularly tour key
territories - China
performances by
the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the
maestro Zubin Mehta. It's the orchestra's second tour
of India, after a break of 50 years. The second perform
ance on March 29 was especially
there are
instances of this kind of synergetic activity all over the net
work. For example because of Rabobank Nederland's involve
ment with the Tour de France, many Rabobank International
(Rl) offices