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Plastic windows face wrath of conservationists

"I'm afraid conservation areas are suffering a plague of plastic windows," the chief executive of English Heritage was quoted in today's Telegraph.co.uk . "I would never in a million years put one in," he continued. The conservationist...

Published 23 Jun 2009 14:35 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: chemicals, gossip, hi-tech, Daily Telegraph, Conservation, English Heritage, renovation, plastic windows
Swine flu stalks the ACC conference

ICIS Houston managing editor Stephen Burns survived the ACC conference, and sends this tale and video ... The American Chemistry Council ( ACC ) has revealed that an attendee at its annual meeting in Colorado Springs earlier this month had contracted...

Published 23 Jun 2009 10:40 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: business travel, conferences, gossip, ACC, golf, swineflu, Broadmoor
Billionaire stuck with chemicals after Setanta failure

Poor Len Blavatnik, bored with chemicals after LyondellBasell's bankruptcy, won't be buying Setanta after all, now they can't broadcast Premier League football. Read More...

Published 20 Jun 2009 9:08 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: gossip, bankruptcy, Len Blavatnik, football, LyondellBasell, soccer, celebs in chemicals, Setanta
View the inside of a Shanghai police station

Shanghai is still one of the most popular destinations for conferences, but to counter-balance the Blog's usually euphoric postings about the city, the ICIS fertilizer team found the city dirty and polluted, with the Bund turned into a massive construction...

Published 1 Jun 2009 15:24 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: conferences, gossip
Packing our golf bags for Seaview

What everyone loves about the Northeast Chems Association ( NECA) Sports Outing is that it is usually three days out of the office playing golf in the sunshine on the glorious rolling greens of the luxury Seaview Marriott hotel at Absecon on the New Jersey...

Published 20 May 2009 18:00 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: business travel, gossip, Houston, corporate life, golf, New Jersey, NECA, spas, Marriott Seaview, tennis, NECA Sports Outing
Flu fears prompt cancellations at APIC conference

ICIS editors are setting off from the Singapore office on Tuesday night for the seven hour flight to Seoul, South Korea for the APIC conference on 14-15 May, despite news of delegate cancellations due to swine flu fears. I've been following with fascination...

Published 12 May 2009 11:58 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: conferences, gossip, Singapore, ICIS, APIC, swineflu, Seoul
Hello! magazine features ICIS reporter Truong

ICIS reporters are no strangers to High Society events and the celebrity lifestyle . Truong Mellor has his photo in this week's Hello! magazine at a friend's wedding in England's Lake District. It's on page 126 of the 12 May 2009 issue...

Published 8 May 2009 14:57 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: parties, gossip, celebrities, Lake District, Hello!, weddings
Floggers: high spirits despite downturn and health scare

It may turn out that the timing of Floggers was fortunate, because although everyone was joking about swine flu, they were still hugging and (social) kissing with abandon, and no-one had yet started to think about avoiding mass gatherings . Particularly...

Published 1 May 2009 15:07 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: trivia, business travel, gossip, CBA, Floggers, Ann Widdecombe, Gurkhas, Grovenor House
Twittering executives are making a complete hash of it - Kellaway

Twitter may be "potentially the best communication tool there is; the trouble is that most executives are making a complete hash of using it," says Lucy Kellaway in today's Financial Times. "Either they fill it with mundane personal...

Published 27 Apr 2009 14:00 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: gossip, hi-tech, corporate life, Financial Times, twitter, media life, email, Lucy Kellaway
Staff sabotage at Dominos Pizza on YouTube video

Staff who lose their jobs in the economic downturn may look for ways to sabotage their companies, according to a posting on the Computer Weekly Editor's Blog. And it's not just former staff, a s demonstrated by the current furore over Domino's...

Published 15 Apr 2009 17:46 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: gossip, corporate life, media life, pizza, YouTube, Computer Weekly, sabotage, business life
Smart Car prize at distributor NPRA cocktail party

The Blog is very impressed to hear that one US distributor held a prize draw of a gorgeous red Passion Coupe Smart Car at its NPRA cocktail party. Why don't I get invited to parties like that? US Chemicals LLC, a chemical distributor based in New...

Published 9 Apr 2009 18:45 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: conferences, parties, gossip, NPRA, cocktails, distribution, prizes, U.S. Chemicals LLC
Gorbachev at NPRA Luncheon

Mikhail Gorbachev's speech to the NPRA Luncheon on Tuesday, in the Ballroom of the main conference hotel, the new Grand Hyatt, was attended by hundreds of delegates. I wasn't there myself but I was leaving for the airport just as everyone was...

Published 1 Apr 2009 11:48 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: conferences, gossip, NPRA, San Antonio, NPRA Luncheon, Mikhail Gorbachev, Grand Hyatt
Live Twitter from NPRA Todd Buchholz speech

I've been on Twitter for about two weeks and it still seems like a lot of fun, but now I see the early adopters are already jumping ship for the Next Big Thing. There's an email in the Blog inbox inviting me to join a Yammer group, when I've...

Published 31 Mar 2009 11:43 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: conferences, gossip, NPRA, twitter, media life, Todd Buchholz
Top NPRA parties 2009

Who in the real world gets invited to five parties in one evening? Even in these hard times, most of the regular NPRA parties were still on, even if some of them were a bit sparsely attended and doorkeepers were rather less strict about keeping uninvited...

Published 31 Mar 2009 11:40 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: conferences, parties, gossip, ICIS, Mitsubishi, NPRA, San Antonio, Kolmar, Vopak, Gantrade
Scottish golf event hard to resist

SAN ANTONIO (Chemicals Confidential)--The Blog hears that some guests being invited to a petchems industry golfing event to be held at the prestigious Scottish course of Gleneagles this summer are reluctantly having to decline the invitation due to new...

Published 30 Mar 2009 13:08 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: business travel, gossip, corporate life, golf, Scotland, Gleneagles, corporate hospitality

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