(Update from an item first posted in VegLeatherHubAugust 7, 2015) The wonderful film of Richard Hodgson and Sons from 1937 that brings back many memories. My father used to buy dressing hides from them for Muirheads in Glasgow having joined them as a finishing chemist in 1934, I imagine they were being produced for Muirheads […]
Paris is back to centre stage
Cuir a Paris brings Paris back centre stage Cuir a Paris is on for the 25th time this week. I have to admit that there have been so much changes in shows in Paris since I began in the leather industry that I assuming that means twelve and a half years with the show twice […]
Alumni are important and Innovation in the leather industry
POSTED ON JULY 8, 2013 Two items below The Value of Alumni When I was working on helping the Pakistan Government update their strategy for the leather industry a few years ago I had the opportunity to visit large numbers of tanneries and shoe factories. What was astonishing was that in factory after factory I […]
Crispin Odey
POSTED ON AUGUST 19, 2010 Crispin Odey “looks forward when others can only see the past” I was sitting in the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse Lounge in Heathrow the other day and picked up a copy of a paper called Financial News. It is a paper I have rarely seen, and never read. Yet inside the […]
Crispin Odey “looks forward when others can only see the past”
Note: first published on University of Northampton blog, 19th August 2010 I was sitting in the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse Lounge in Heathrow the other day and picked up a copy of a paper called Financial News. It is a paper I have rarely seen, and never read. Yet inside the edition that Virgin had […]
Crispin Odey “looks forward when others can only see the past”
I was sitting in the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse Lounge in Heathrow the other day and picked up a copy of a paper called Financial News. It is a paper I have rarely seen, and never read. Yet inside the edition that Virgin had left out I found a fascinating two page feature on Crispin Odey […]
Bologna, IULTCS President Elton Hurlow, CICB Brazilian Tanners in Northampton
POSTED ON OCTOBER 24, 2009 Three items below In Bologna with the Master of Leathersellers You might have expected that the recession would have meant real problems for the Trade Shows. Yet the need to know what is happening and to get this knowledge first hand has forced the key players in the leather industry […]
Leather Guilds, 110th SLTC Meeting
POSTED ON. OCTOBER 17, 2007 It is October and it is sunny in Scotland The weather is hot and sunny and we are having a drink outside in shorts and sun hats. We have been lying on the beach. Is this global warming or just an “Indian” summer? Or perhaps the microclimate that Daniel Defoe […]