meetings

The joy of meetings

Published: July 21, 2021

A year or more of zero travel and extended remote working has raised the importance of “the meeting” to a new level. Back-to-back Zoom meetings have become the norm, and the one-hour meeting the defined standard. I have sat in on a few where managing the sixty-minute aspect had priority over content and purpose.

La Spaienza University and UNIC present series of “Made In Italy” seminars

Published: March 22, 2021

The university in Rome and the Italian tanners association are hosting a seminar series “Made In Italy” as part of the university’s Master’s in Fashion Studies.

AICC to offer a series of webinars

Published: June 17, 2020

The Italian Leather Chemists Association (AICC) has announced that a series of webinars will be available as from June 18.

ICT and GLCC Hong Kong meetings postponed

Published: March 12, 2020

The International Council of Tanners (ICT) and the Global Leather Coordinating Committee (GLCC) have announced their decision to postpone meetings from the provisional dates in late May/early June until later in the year.

Leather mislabelling problem has to be fixed

Published: June 18, 2019

The issues associated with the labelling of leather, or perhaps we should say the mislabelling of leather, has been the subject of countless articles and discussion in many meetings among industry professionals.

Expo Riva Schuh to meet buyer delegation from Scandinavia

Published: September 19, 2017

After an initial round in South Africa, the ‘Expo Riva Schuh Around the World’ project continues the promotional tour of the trade show with a day of talks on October 12 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Indian leather should have a bigger share

Published: August 16, 2016

In 2015 the per capita GDP of China was US$7990 while that of India was only $1617. Quite frankly this is astonishing. Looking back at the China and India I visited first in the early 1980s India was far ahead, and the factories in China were truly reminders of a different, rather primitive, age. Trying to get sensible meetings with staff who worked in dreadful offices along the Bund was difficult and getting round Shanghai, which was just seething with bicycles and poverty, was extremely hard.

The necessity of trade fairs

Published: April 7, 2015

It is sometimes hard to judge what companies expect from trade fairs. I could provide a very long list. To find new clients, to sell more product, to identify trends, to understand what is happening, to try to manipulate a market, to attend useful meetings or seminars, to get “inspirations” for product innovations or just to be re-assured by the presence of customers and competitors - just a few of the many reasons companies attend a trade show.