Two Armenian chambers of commerce join

Karen S. Kim

GLENDALE -- The Armenian American Chamber of Commerce and the United

Armenian American Chamber of Commerce have joined forces to serve the

Armenian business community.

The two groups will act together under the name Armenian American

Chamber of Commerce. The new chamber will be based in Glendale but will

serve businesses throughout Southern California.

“We’re working the same community and we had basically the same

mission, so we decided it didn’t make any sense to serve the same

community separately,” said Armen Janian, honorary chairman of the new

group. “We can get much better mileage out of our efforts this way.”

The main item on the new chamber’s agenda is to organize an Armenian

business expo for September 2002 that would be even larger and more

successful than this year’s “Expo 2001: Made in Armenia” in June.

For more information about membership, mixers, events and chamber

services, call 247-0196.