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  • The right image for the recession

    The soundbite of former Lehmans boss Fuld being grilled by a US congressional committee about his beachfront home and multi-million dollar art collection made for great radio this morning. On BBC Radio 4's Today programme on my drive in, you got the full contempt in the voice of Henry Waxman, chairman...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-10-2008

  • Conference Etiquette #2 - The Social Kiss

    I am endebted to this Times article for the final word on the minefield of business kissing. If it's three kisses for the Dutch, what do you say to a German who comes in for a third and quite inappropriate lunge? Reading the paper from cover to cover while we sat for two hours on the tarmac at Heathrow...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-07-2008

  • Ryder Cup players are model for petchems

    Watching the opening of the Ryder Cup , which kicks off today in Kentucky, sets me wondering about golf and chemicals. Why is golf the sport of the international petrochemical industry? Even as EPCA has axed the Sunday sailing competition this year, and the tennis numbers dwindle away, but the golf event...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-19-2008

  • Football and chemical freebies

    I'm sitting in a football stadium on a mild and sunny Saturday afternoon in this cool damp English summer, watching our team in what is only its third game this season as all the expensive new players fail to score a single goal. Watching football in warm weather is a pleasantly new experience for...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-18-2008

  • Chemicals retirements - they're not what they used to be

    To Holland Park today for a delightful business lunch with an industry friend who is in the process of retiring from the biz at the age of 60. Like so many retiring eminent statesmen before him, my pal has already had a grand farewell bash, at the Adlon Kempinski in Berlin at last year's EPCA, but...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-23-2008

  • Your YouTube viewing habits made public

    A word of warning for Blog readers who have delighted in chemical industry spectacular videos like " INEOS Dormagen Fire ", " Global News Meeting Houston ", " EPCA Berlin 2007 ", " APLA 2007 Buenos Aires " and many more. A US court has ruled that Google must divulge...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-04-2008
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