This item first appeared in International Leather Maker in June 2021 https://internationalleathermaker.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/9955/The_written_word.html It has led to a lot of correspondence and comments and I am minded to try and take it somewhere. here are the key points: I would like to get more of the colleges that teach leather in any way around the world […]
Changing Culture and its implications
Over the last few weeks I have been using my weekly items for International Leather Maker to dig into the concept of changing culture. Not in a particularly sophisticated way, but rather to consider how good regulation, properly enforced can push companies along a positive path. From the about 1970 onwards the leather industry in […]
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 left […]