Western beef & leather demand leading to intensified deforestation in the Amazon: http://bit.ly/3PtVi The big issue which is dominating the leather discussion of the moment is the recent report by Greenpeace on ranching in the Amazon. See (http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/slaughtering-the-amazon) Its arrival was accompanied by a good PR promotion which included very good articles in the Financial […]
Fashion shows and the recession hits leather
POSTED ON JUNE 23, 2009 In the Footlights Fashion shows always come with high levels of tension, emotion and lot so of superlatives. It’s like the opening night at the theatre. So much hangs on just a few moments. Many readers of this will have seen some of the University of Northampton Fashion School Show […]
An Eye to the Future
On a recent short trip to the US I read in the newspapers that minus 30% was the new up in business these days and it is amazing how many of the companies I have spoken to since have used exactly that 30% figure as the statement of where they stand short of 2008. What […]
Of Boots and Buses
Of Boots and Buses The Lake District is a special place. It has been so for many centuries with its mountains, lakes and dreadful weather dominating all that man can to do it. More recently that “specialness” has taken a slightly new turn as the boomer generation has moved into retirement. For this group the […]
the battle against leather picks up pace, Northampton leather cluster, APLF and the recession
POSTED ON MAY 29, 2009. 3 posts below Bringing in the students One of the purposes of going out to Hong Kong is to attract new students, but APLF 2009 was no so great a success. In fact the School must be a bit unsure about next year as the recession has hit the trade […]
Tony is getting Zapped 411,146 times a day
Tony Hsieh the CEO of the rapidly growing and really interesting Internet store Zappos.com is busy on Twitter as is most of his staff. He uses it as a marketing tool and engages his audience with many entertaining Tweets. It’s an internal tool for him too and used as such for internal communications with great […]
APLF show in Hong Kong offers leather trade some encouragement
Spring in Hong Kong APLF was again a successful show, although with the world economic meltdown continuing expectations were not too high. They were high, though, for the centenary of leather Corium Club event and there is no doubt that this was the must attend event of the fair and enjoyed by all. Holding to […]
Word cloud of the future of the leather industry
I have no idea if this will work but the above should either show you or link you to a wordle of my talk in Chennai. Done by www.wordle.net Imagine it is the first leather industry wordle. To see it properly it might be best to search for it using Mike Redwood at the wordle […]
Bologna, APLF, Northampton and Bob Higham; plus of course Leather Naturally
POSTED ON APRIL 28, 2009 two items below From past to present in one easy move Sadly I will miss another SLTC Council Meeting in Northampton on Wednesday as after my accident and back operation I am still strictly limited in how much I can travel and how many hours I am allowed on my […]
The World’s All A Twitter
The World is All a Twitter The Guardian newspaper in England keeps writing about the importance of Twitter so it was not much of a surprise that for its April Fool it was that the print edition would terminate and the whole paper would be produced on Twitter. Well as it happened I just decided […]
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