Our speaker for April’s business lunch was Frédéric Crouzet, founder and creator of This is Lyon This is Lyon is the Lyon website which is 100% English, so this attracts two main personas….expats and tourists! Frédéric explained his professional background as a journalist as well as some of the tips and tricks of setting up […]

To start the New Year, we began with something a little different. Joanna Kelly, one of our members, is Broadcast manager for the World Curling Federation and came up with a great idea! With the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games about to get underway in South Korea, FIBA members were invited to ‘Come & Try’ the […]

This year’s International cocktail took on a Chocolate theme, as we decided, along with the Presidents from EACC (American), BBC (Belgian), CEE6 (6th district), DBRA (Dutch) business clubs to hold our event at the NewTree Café a new business started by Bernard Goret from the Belgian business club. Over 80 business club members assembled and enjoyed […]

On the 18th November 2017, FIBA joined other members of the British community in Lyon (BCC, RBL, RAF, Association France-Grande-Bretagne, to name just a few) to commemorate, along with, it seemed, the entire population of St. Germain au Mont d’Or the Centenary of the establishment of a military hospital in St. Germain. FIBA member Garth Drury can be […]

November’s lunch was a return to the more traditional format of a business speaker at the Reine Astrid. We welcomed Aymeric de Mollerat from Aderly Invest in Lyon, the institution set up to encourage international businesses and entrepreneurs to our beautiful city. Aymeric shared a number of examples of international businesses that are choosing Lyon, […]