Football and Formula 1 highlights
As a former sports journalist, this past week has been particularly enjoyable. I have taken in two football matches and played around with a real F1 car - all, of course, in the name of promoting growth in the UK …
Dinosaur Sex
OK, so that’s an eye-catching title for a blog, but it’s a track on the new album by London-based Emmy the Great, who played a fantastic acoustic set in Tokyo last night with Tim from Ash. I thought the very …
Celebrating NE Export Success
UKTI North East was delighted to host both the Minister Lord Green and incoming CEO Nick Baird last week , to celebrate the North East's export achievements and also pay a visit to some key companies in the region that …
Coals to Newcastle
Or more accurately: Toyota cars to Japan. Toyota recently announced that the Avensis model built at their factory in Burnaston in Derbyshire will go on sale in Japan from September. They're aiming to sell 5,000 vehicles per year. A great …
What I heard at the Paris Europlace Financial Forum
At the Paris Europlace event, which I attended last week along with 1,500 other delegates, the major concern underlying every discussion was that there is a risk that some of the new banking and insurance regulations currently being considered at …
Exporting achievements fit for a Queen
I was sent one of those picture texts this week by a friend who had been invited to a Royal Garden Party. He was outside the gates of Buckingham Palace resplendent in his morning suit and his wife in a …
Football meets business at the Women’s World Cup
Every so often you realise in life that you are perhaps taking your job a little too seriously. It happened to me on Saturday evening in the Bay Arena in Leverkusen just before half-time. I was there watching our ladies …
Tohoku 4 months on
Amidst all the concern about the nuclear failure at Fukushima the plight of the region devastated by the tsunami on 11 March has pretty much disappeared from the international headlines. But the story is still horrifyingly real for those struggling …
EU - S. Korea Free Trade Agreement - what does it mean for the UK?
The FTA is headline news in Korea. The Korean public know about the FTA and understand its significance. They also know they will pay cheaper prices for EU goods. Not surprisingly, many companies are busy compiling new marketing strategies to …
English country garden style in urban Tokyo
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clothing and fashion, Creative Industries, Fashion & Accessories
You might think that opening your new store in central Tokyo on 11 March, the day when the largest earthquake in a thousand years hit, constituted a pretty bad omen. In fact, Cabbages and Roses, the British interiors and clothing …
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