POSTED ON NOVEMBER 19, 2010 Two posts below The Northampton Study The Northampton Study is a project we have been working on over the summer to gather the opinions of generation Y about leather. This study was used in part for a paper on consumer power in the leather industry given to the Centenary Conference […]
Corium in Bologna and Princess Anne in Scotland
POSTED ON OCTOBER 6, 2010 An excited industry goes to Bologna The autumn season has rushed up on us as we move from Shanghai to Bologna to see what hide prices will do and continue taking the temperature of the industry to see if a double dip in the world economy. Shanghai was a resounding […]
LeatherNaturally!
POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 10, 2010 LeatherNaturally! For some time discussion has been going on about a Brand Leather generic campaign similar to WoolMark and the Cotton Council in the USA. With pressure on leather from new technical textiles, plastic materials at one end and some unchallenged claims by environmental NGOs at the other the time […]
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 […]
Spamming from Sialkot
I like Sialkot. I enjoyed visiting the 19th century Anglican Cathedral, recently restored, and the hospitality of the troops at the border with India. It is a sad border, really, since there has been fighting there and Sialkot would be much richer if no border existed at all. Yet it is still a vibrant place […]
Leathersellers, ICLT and Boiled Buffalo
POSTED ON JUNE 14, 2010. Two items below Richard Thornton, Master of Leathersellers 1836-1837 Richard Thornton would have been proud to see how his money is being spent 170 years on. The June prize giving was one of the best in the period that Ann Tate has been Vice Chancellor. More parents turned up – […]
The Origins of things
I sat all yesterday through a series of presentations for industry University collaborative projects called KTPs. These are Knowledge Transfer Partnerships which are a very good way for business and Universities in the UK to collaborate. The companies contribute and the UK government then puts in quite a large amount and creates it normal bureaucracy […]
News of ICLT and Alumni
POSTED ON MAY 28, 2010 Killing Oscar Did you see the BBC Three programme Blood, Sweat and Luxuries on Leather? Are you getting ready to go and strangle Oscar? I am sure Garen Nalbandian nearly did. If you have not seen it you still have all of May to watch it on BBC iPlayer (http://ow.ly/1Gbpm) […]
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