Showing posts with label Winning Entrepreneurs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winning Entrepreneurs. Show all posts
Monday, 20 December 2010
Black Friday 2010
02:28 | 
Posted by
Gill Eastgate
Well I think it's fair to say Black Friday 2010 was certainly a day to remember for not just the NKD Team! It all started pretty calm, quite peaceful to say the least. Deliveries appeared to be getting back to normal, Zander and Ray ploughed their way through the outstanding customer orders up in the NKD Warehouse, Sarah completed some design work for a client and I spent the morning working on the figures. Lisa and Steph were heading down to Peterborough on the train to see a client. Generally speaking it was business as normal...
At 12.15pm Steph texted me to tell me that they hadn't managed to get off the train at Peterborough - the train doors had failed to open and no passengers had been able to get on or off the train! With the girls heading to the next stop, which in this instance was London, we were all beginning to wonder if this was turning out to be a wasted journey! Thankfully our client managed to push the meeting back a couple of hours, Steph and Lisa arrived in London, the train doors opened and they ran to catch the next train heading north which was leaving in 6 minutes! They eventually arrived back to Peterborough and had by all accounts what was a very successful meeting.
Back in Edinburgh the remainder of the team heading up to The Living Room for our Christmas Lunch. We were joined on this occasion by our 2 friends - Belinda Roberts of Winning Entrepreneurs and Susie Lacroix of No. 1 Currency. Lunch was great and we bumped into a few of our clients including Richard Oliver of Harrison Field and the lovely Sandy and Sarah from Citidogs.
We moved onto one of our favourite bars, the gorgeous Tigerlily, where lots of NKD friends were out in full force, including my bestest chum Lady Laura! It seemed the whole of Edinburgh was out on Friday night. I can't quite remember what time we decided all to head home but I certainly made it home safely. The same can't quite be said for Belinda....at 04.57am I woke up needing a drink of water to quench my hangover induced thirst. For some reason I plugged my mobile in and went on Facebook when I was in the kitchen to see a posting from Belinda who had just checked out of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary! Poor Belinda had taken her dog out for a walk after we had all gone home and split her head open! 5 big staples in her head she was admitted home. Not nice.
Other injuries sustained on Black Friday in Edinburgh include our very own Ray who slipped and fell - his glasses jarred into the side of his head and he now has a lovely black eye which he can barely see out of! My solicitor Susanne was also a victim of the snow and ice (or was it the alcohol) - She woke up with a very sore leg from falling flat on her face and a cancelled bank card!
I can only say the streets of Edinburgh must have been very quiet on the Saturday - thank goodness Christmas comes just once a year!!! Have a good one everybody and stay safe!!!
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Mega Month at NKD
With the absence of boss lady Gill for the majority of this month, the whole team have embraced a deeper sense of self and collective responsibility, embarking on new business activity and product development - truly living our vision to transform the business and be proud of everything we do.
We were delighted to support the launch of FatBuzz on the 17th of June. The team, previously known as Podcastmatters were introduced to us by Belinda at Winning Entrepreneurs. They’ve been a great help to us as we’ve developed our online presence and an absolute pleasure to work with, so it was great to see them on the night donning our creations and looking fabulous! I was fortunate to attend the glamorous event which offered an opportunity to meet some lovely, like-minded people and have a wee boogie while enjoying a bubbly beverage.
Just days later we were celebrating again, this time at the news NKD model and friend of the team, Nicola Mimnagh was crowned Miss Scotland 2010. We wish Nicola all the very best and look forward to working with her again soon. By Sunday (20th June) NKD was receiving its own coverage in the nationals. After being approached to feature in Michelle Rodger’s Scotland on Sunday business column, I was only too happy to contribute to the article and I’m now looking forward very much to meeting Lorna Hudson of Individual Impact.
Client activity was as high as ever this month and it was all go in the warehouse with two new uniform roll outs for the Coniston Hotel and Royal Terrace Hotel who are thrilled with their new look, as well as our design team working flat out to produce artwork for several new leads. We’re also currently engaged with a collection of luxury Scottish hotels, who we hope to deliver a stunning new corporate wear range to shortly, so you’ll have to forgive my discretion at this stage but watch this space...exciting times ahead!
And to finish an already eventful month, I received a copy of the published article I wrote for director-e magazine today and thanks to the editor, Catherine Christie I look forward to future contributions, again... watch this space.
All in all, a successful and extremely rewarding 30 days here at the home of stylish, bespoke corporate clothing and as well as having a wonderful holiday to look forward to, I feel extremely fortunate to be coming back to a festival frenzied city and what I know will be a fun-filled few months at NKD.
Friday, 4 June 2010
Thursday Night...
Last night with my NKD Clothing hat on again I attended another fantastic event run by my favourite friend Belinda Roberts, Founder of Edinburgh based business networking group Winning Entrepreneurs http://winentrepreneurs.com/ Ricks Edinburgh was the venue (it’s rapidly becoming my favourite place in Edinburgh what with their Ambassador Card which I am very privileged to be a holder of). The guest speaker was Shaf Rasul who gave us an insight into his life, his failures and successes in business. Perhaps even more fascinating was the young Tom Mursell, a 20 year old entrepreneur who is now the youngest member of Winning Entrepreneurs. Tom is a very inspiring young man who set up notgoingtouni.com and is now working with Shaf at E-Net Distribution. I sat alongside Tom’s mum and dad for dinner - they had come up to Edinburgh from Southampton for the week and the sun was shining (doesn't it always?). Not being overly maternal myself I did feel myself wiping away a tear from my eye when Tom’s dad spoke so openly and warmly about their son’s achievements. Felt very honoured to be in the company of such a cool guy whom I imagine in years to come will be the Lord Sugar of the 2020’s but oh so much more successful!
Back to my table – who would imagine that you could have so much fun with both your dentist and lawyer at the same time??! Biju Krishnan and Alasdair Peacock. With the cocktails flowing in abundance the boys were in good form. Biju got a sale thanks to my new sparkling white teeth, Alan drank my cocktails I so wanted to drink but couldn't, whilst Alasdair got a bit jealous of my impending trip to Chicago and my Johnny Depp photographs! All in all a fab night – shame I had my sensible hat on and drove home before I turned into a pumpkin!
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Rick's Ambassador Programme
I attended a fantastic night last night at Rick's, Edinburgh. I was there along with many other talented business owners to attend the launch event of the Rick's Ambassador Programme. This loyalty programme has been developed in conjunction with Winning Entrepreneurs and the lovely Belinda Roberts!
It was great to meet up with old friends and meet new faces across all different sectors of business. As the prosseco and mojitos gathered pace the chat changed from business to pleasure. I did hold onto my sensible head and left before things got messy! Can’t drink too much on a school night not when we've got lots of new design work at NKD Clothing to conjur up!
It was great to meet up with old friends and meet new faces across all different sectors of business. As the prosseco and mojitos gathered pace the chat changed from business to pleasure. I did hold onto my sensible head and left before things got messy! Can’t drink too much on a school night not when we've got lots of new design work at NKD Clothing to conjur up!
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