POSTED ON MAY 8, 2013 Particularly Engaging Students For those readers who are keen listeners to BBC Radio then Robin Day’s World of Business is a must listen. I download them as podcasts and listen in the car while I drive up to the University from home. The programme this week was “Job Search: Millions of […]
Old leather dogs and a career in leather
POSTED ON MARCH 7, 2013 A career in leather For the first time ever to my knowledge someone held a career day in leather last week. All through my career students have essentially slid into a life of leather through patronage or accident. Peripheral people who might want to consider leather just did not exist. […]
Thoughts on Coach
POSTED ON FEBRUARY 21, 2013 Evolution at Coach I first met Lew Frankfort in the mid 1980s. I was just getting to grips with a move from making leather into a new role with greater focus on marketing and selling it. Coach was a small company then, nearer $50m if I remember correctly, but it […]
The danger of self destruction by being careless with the facts
POSTED ON NOVEMBER 16, 2012 An Alumni Event It is easy to rush on and forget your friends in this modern world. Yet as we see China continue to rise in importance we all know how important connections – “guanxi” – are for moving forward in business. In the west we used to maintain our […]
Good science not flash headlines.
POSTED ON OCTOBER 31, 2012 Good relations Anyone who follows @ICLTleather on Twitter will know that last week the University of Northampton hosted a Textile Institute Conference on leather. An attentive audience of industry personnel, with many from major brands, along with students from around the UK enjoyed what turned out to be a packed […]
Honorary Degrees, Make In Britain, Puma and Leather
POSTED ON JULY 20, 2012 three items below from June and July 2012 Getting it right by degrees Yesterday the leather degrees were awarded by the University of Northampton. Despite all the changes in Higher Education in the UK as government tries to work out how to manage costs and the future of skills and […]
Hemp, describing leather in a materials glossary and Hide to High Street
POSTED ON MAY 28, 2012 two items below Tanning by a distance New terms such as on line and blended learning are becoming increasingly used and with time at a premium in business not all companies are willing to send staff to Northampton for long periods. A physical presence is of importance in order to […]
SLTC and the University
POSTED ON APRIL 30, 2012 two posts below The Northampton Leather Hub Delegates awaiting the start of the SLTC conference. From left: Amanda Michel, Stephen Trantum, Ian Michel For the second year in a row the SLTC held their annual conference in Northampton. The one this past weekend was the 115th. I wonder if anyone […]
SLTC Conference, Corium Club and Kano
POSTED ON FEBRUARY 29, 2012 Events, dear boy, events We have already spoken about how the SLTC conference on 28th April in Northampton looking interesting and the Textile conference (now postponed to October) but every year at Hong Kong the BLC along with the APLF have been running an afternoon seminar. The agenda this year […]
TPRG: just another foolish Acronym
POSTED ON NOVEMBER 29, 2011 TPRG: just another foolish Acronym A new term turned up in Rio de Janeiro this month: TPRG! It came up as a question in the World Leather Congress and was supposed to be a humorous way of saying tanners were feeling squeezed. So out came Tanners Profitability Rescue Group (TPRG). […]
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