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ABMEC, the only association representing the British mining supply chain, has forged a collaboration with the Coal Industry Society (CIS) Networking Group, by agreeing to carry out the group’s administrative services.
The CIS was originally founded in 1929, as a Luncheon Club, for gentlemen involved in the coal industry and allied trades, meeting six times a year at the Metropole Hotel in London.
With a timeline, depicting classic landmarks in history, the society welcomed its first lady speaker; Barbara Castle MP, Minister of Transport at a lunch in 1967, the same year women were allowed to attend lunches. It was not until 1974 that women were could join the society.