Tuesday 19 August 2008

When in Rome


It's always good when you go abroad to try and learn a bit of the language and make an effort so I was really impressed to see Steve McLaren doing his bit now that he is working in Holland. If you have not already seen it, here is Steve's admirable interview with Dutch TV where he attempts to get to grips with the language. And you wonder how we failed to qualify.





Not much luck on eBay this week. Made a profit but this was messed up by a woman who bid £440 for this super late 18th century Worcester bowl. She now says it was a mistake and the next bidder says he will still buy it but wants to spend just £150! To be honest I only paid about £20 for it so I will probably accept that but it is a lot of hassle.



It's only a couple of weeks to the end of Instanta's financial year. It has been a year of change and development with some highs in the launch of a great new product range and a superb brochure and the lows of the purchase of the freehold and the loss of many thousands of pounds through theft. Despite the gloom and doom in the economy I think that we will see a good increase in sales on last year and, whilst profits will be considerably down due to all of the above we are in a good position to move into our next financial year. Sales of the new products are good and I am pretty sure that the new 1500LCD will outsell the new £434 Lincat EB3F by a long way.



The superb new 1500LCD £399. We are now well on our way to getting 1,000 LCD models out with zero failures reported to date.

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