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Letter from the Chamber CEO

Central California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

Recently at a gathering of over a hundred chamber businesses, one business member stood up and said of the chamber, “By staying together, we make things better.”

While I’m sure that statement wouldn’t win a poetry contest — it does have a nice rhyme to it — it is indicative of what the Chamber is all about.

With chamber members staying together, we can build a stronger local economy. With members staying together, we get to share business opportunities. With members staying together, we can share with each other the knowledge that we have learned to make business healthy, thus creating a solid business foundation. By members staying together, we can have a united voice that can be heard loudly in the governmental halls of our city, state and nation. With chamber members staying together, we can become productive stewards of a friendly, healthy and prosperous local community.

As we launch our 2008 community profile, it’s important to remember the words of that chamber member. In addition to this community profile is this membership directory with almost 2,000 local businesses - businesses who are staying together to make commerce better and community more livable.

Inside the pages of this book you will find the names and addresses of each and every member in the Chamber and Buyer’s Guide that can deliver goods and services for every business category. We urge that you check here first whenever there is a desire to buy anything, anywhere in the Valley.

Also, it is always important to remember the core values of the Greater Fresno Area Chamber of Commerce, which are:

• To promote a strong local economy
• To provide opportunities to network and build
relationships
• To deliver programs to help businesses grow
• To represent and advocate on behalf of business
• To enhance commerce through community
stewardship

To the 2000 member investors of the Chamber, we thank you for the investment in our city’s future.

We are proud to provide this resource.

Sincerely,

Al Smith - Chief Executive Officer/President
Greater Fresno Area Chamber of Commerce
2331 Fresno Street
Fresno, CA 93721
(559) 495-4800 • (559) 495-4816 (voicemail)
(559) 495-4811 (fax)
alsmith@fresnochamber.com