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Wood Mackenzie staff in the money

Wood Mackenzie, the energy consultancy and long-term supporter of the ICIS Aromatics Conference, was sold yesterday for £533 million , in a deal whereby 100 of the company's staff share a total payout of about £100 million. The Blog was delighted...

Published 20 Jun 2009 9:10 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: conferences, ICIS, corporate life, Paul Hodges, Amsterdam, Wood Mackenzie, ICIS Aromatics Conference
25 years of Virgin Atlantic

Sir Richard Branson of the Virgin Group is doing a guest editor stint today at ICIS' sister publication Flight, and he tells us that Virgin Atlantic's popular 25th anniversary ad is going to make a return to UK TV screens this week. The retrospective...

Published 8 Jun 2009 17:43 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: flight, Virgin, business travel, ICIS, airlines, planes, Virgin Atlantic, Richard Branson
A Town Called Panic - a movie comedy of plastics

"A Town Called Panic" (Panique au village), a Belgian comedy movie about plastic toys, previewed at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday. The review in Hollywoodreporter.com says that it is "absolutely brilliant:" The main characters...

Published 23 May 2009 19:08 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: movies, ICIS, hair, Belgium, films, Cannes Film Festival, Hollywoodreporter.com, A Town Called Panic
Chemical companies: Green surfers or divers?

ICIS (the company I work for) in cooperation with technology start-up company Genomatica is working on a survey on whether chemical companies these days are just riding the sustainable chemistry wave e.g. looking at energy/manufacturing efficiency, using...

Published 13 May 2009 15:54 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: General, studies and reports, ICIS, sustainability, survey, chemical companies, green chemistry, Genomatica
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
Southwest Chemical Spring Golf Day in Houston

Stephen Burns in ICIS Houston has made this video of last week's Southwest Chemical spring charity golf day. I think I recognise a few of those backs. He writes ... The Southwest Chemical Association held its spring charity golf day on Monday 4 May...

Published 6 May 2009 16:05 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: Texas, ICIS, Houston, corporate life, golf, Southwest Chemicals
The "All About ICIS" video - now showing on YouTube

By popular demand, here's the ICIS video that was showing in the ICIS suite at NPRA last week - no voiceover, just music, tinkling away in the background for three days ... Read More...

Published 9 Apr 2009 11:00 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: video, movies, conferences, ICIS, ICIS pricing, price reporting, NPRA, corporate life, media life, YouTube, ICIS Training, ICIS Heren
ICIS at NPRA 2009

My colleague Stephen Burns, managing editor of ICIS Houston, has compiled a short video of some of the conference activity in the ICIS suite and beyond, on the sidelines of the 2009 NPRA conference in San Antonio. Read More...

Published 2 Apr 2009 17:19 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: chemicals, conferences, ICIS, price reporting, NPRA, San Antonio, presentations
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
The ICIS suite at NPRA 2009, San Antonio, Texas

Photos of the ICIS suite in the Marriott Riverwalk (MRW) Hotel at NPRA on Sunday, 29 March 2009. Read More...

Published 30 Mar 2009 10:18 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: ICIS, NPRA, San Antonio, photos, Climate, Marriott Riverwalk Hotel
Manners Maketh Man

SAN ANTONIO (Chemicals Confidential)--I had the nicest email yesterday, from a French contact. It read: "Dear Mrs Ortner, Thank you very much for your below message - this is precisely what I need.. Thanks again." It just shows there's no...

Published 28 Mar 2009 16:47 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: ICIS, price reporting, email, etiquette, manners
ICIS offices on Google Street View

I think that by now we've exhausted all the fun to be had from Google Street View, but here's a couple of views to add to your collection. ICIS Houston office ICIS London office View Larger Map View Larger Map Read More...

Published 24 Mar 2009 15:06 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: London, ICIS, Houston, corporate life, Google Street View, Google Maps
Help us find our Longest Standing Reader

I'm at the ICIS Training seminars in Brussels and as usual we give out free copies of our ICIS Chemical Business magazine (ICB, the Magazine Formerly Known As European Chemical News or Chemical Market Reporter), and during the workshop session I like...

Published 17 Mar 2009 16:49 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: trivia, ICIS, ICIS Chemical Business, media life, magazines, Chemical Market Reporter, European Chemical News
Revisiting the predictions of the Aromatics Conference 2008

It's always good to be proved right. It has been brought to my attention that one of the speakers at our European Aromatics Conference in Cologne in November 2008 made some fairly accurate predictions in his presentation: 1) a prediction of 40 - 53...

Published 27 Feb 2009 16:48 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: conferences, ICIS, banking, crude, aromatics conference, forecasting, pricing, Cologne, predictions
ICIS TV in San Francisco

It's my fellow ICIS blogger Simon Robinson on ICIS TV in front of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and introducing Informex, a week-long exhibition and conference dedicated to innovations in chemistry. Read More...

Published 25 Feb 2009 9:15 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: USA, blogs, conferences, California, ICIS, media life, Blogger, Informex, Simon Robinson, San Francisco

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