Week Ending: Vision’s lack of foresight; Aldi’s random goods; A woman scorned
WEEK Ending and TheBusinessDesk.com are hugely supportive of this summer’s International Festival for Business, which is being hosted in Liverpool.
A major showcase of British business, a host of events will aim to help firms build contacts across a wide range of sectors.
It’s more than a little unfortunate then that the designated Life Sciences week will not be featuring one of Liverpool City Region’s true stand-out success stories in this sector – RedX Pharma.
Those planning the events appear to have forgotten a basic rule of scheduling – checking to see what else is on at the same time – and as a consequence RedX bosses will be in San Diego in the US attending the annual industry BIO conference, rather than sharing their home-grown success story, and how Liverpool has bent over backwards to support its investment and growth.
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AT BDO’s annual retail dinner this week there was a general consensus that retailers targeting the upmarket and discount sectors were doing well, it’s the mid-market that’s having a tough time.
Poundland, Aldi and Lidl were all cited as discount success stories, and retail veteran David Hughes waxed lyrical about the unexpected treasures than can be found in Aldi’s magical middle aisle.
“The woman who comes to give me a massage,” he said, before breaking off slightly embarrassed, “well, she was telling me how she had bought a unicycle on impulse from Aldi!”
Hughes is clearly taken by Aldi, and is a regular at the Knutsford store, but twice he referred to it as “Alderley”, which could be a new brand for the German chain – a supermarket stocked with goods for the Cheshire set. In this way Aldi could tackle the discount and the upmarket sectors, by-passing the squeezed middle.
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TODAY is the day of love, but such passions can sometimes land those involved in hot water.
On Wednesday Week Ending heard about an office staffed completely by men. It was not down to misogyny but because the wife of the owner discovered he had been having an affair with a colleague and thereafter banned him from working with women ever again.
