Why FBC
Vision, Mission & Values
The FBC is a non-profit association under the Zambian Law, established in October 2021 in Lusaka. It is a network of French and local leaders and decision-makers whose vision is to become an influential and leading business platform in Zambia. Its primary mission is to bring together influential people from the business world, to build and establish a climate of trust within the circle with the aim of generating value and wealth for all its members and a job creating economy, an inclusive, globally competitive, and sustainable society.
It operates thanks to the contributions of its members and the revenues it generates from the events it organizes. Its income is used for educational, cultural, social or economic development assistance activities.
The FBC’s other mission is also to actively promote economic exchanges between Zambia and France.
In particular, it facilitates commercial partnerships, the organization of events dedicated to business promotion, the provision of support services to companies to encourage bilateral investments, and participation in the creation of an environment favorable to economic exchanges.
The role of the FBC is also to help get joint projects between France and Zambia off the ground and to forge ties between leading figures in Zambia and France.
The FBC brings together entrepreneurs, leaders of MSEs, SMEs, French multinationals as well as influential Zambian decision-makers from different sectors and from the political and diplomatic world.
The members gather around the same desire: to develop their business. Several times a year, they meet around a chosen event and activities to discuss, establish contacts and consider new collaborations.
Our objectives
Develop exchanges of information, business flows, studies, between Zambia-France and France-Zambia
Strengthen relations between its members
Respond to the various needs expressed and identified by the segments making up the business communities;
Contribute by all appropriate means, and to the extent that its intervention is justified, to the defense in all places of the general interests of its members, as well as the particular interests that may contribute to them
Bring together the Zambia, French and partner country business communities within the same project