Tag Archives: Giovanna Forte
HFG: the place that slows down time.
Entrepreneurship is something I would recommend to many, but with the Good comes the Bad … and the Very Bad; the last three years of entrepreneurial life have been the most difficult, frustrating and challenging across 35+ years of business. … Continue reading
A Wanstead afternoon and other social shenanigans
It began on the first Friday of April. I had invited very old friends from Cambridge days of yore, people with whom I had mingled during the year of my secretarial training. The early ‘80s involved partner in crime, the … Continue reading
Posted in Entertaining, Family, Food and wine, Friends, Home, Life and romance, London, Uncategorized
Tagged Art, Bethnal Green, Family, Food, friends, Giovanna Forte, life, Shoreditch, wine
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UK Trade and Inspiration
An established oxymoron in my business book is the concept of sound, creative advice from a Civil Servant. This is a breed without entrepreneurial experience. They haven’t felt the pain, have they? My company makes a very clever British invention … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Export, London, Travel
Tagged business, business potential, Design Week Awards, enterprise, entrepreneurs, export, Forte Medical, Giovanna Forte, growth, Innovation, Peezy, Peezy Midstream, UKTI, urology
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Tales from the traveling (female) business executive
George Melly where are you now? Photograph by Colin Bell About four years ago, my company took part in a healthcare event in Harrogate. I secured a nice little deal at the deliciously luxe Hotel du Vin and after a … Continue reading
Preparing for Launch: how The Hood came good
A launch isn’t just any old launch when it’s yours. When you are CEO of the company launching the thing to be launched, you can’t feign invisibility, safe in the knowledge that your lack of cuticle care will go unnoticed. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Entertaining, Food and wine, London, Uncategorized
Tagged 3Thirty, Andy Goldberg, business, CEO, clothes, Cowshed, Dames Chair, design, Dr Vincent Forte, Eyre Brothers, fashion, Forte Medical, Giovanna Forte, manicure, Mark Hix, Medical Futures, MSU, Neighbours, pamper, pedicure, Peezy, product launch, Rivington, shoes, Shoreditch, Shoreditch House, Sonia Rykiel, Start, Tramshed, women in business
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Sexual equality? Aliens would not be impressed
Never one to marginalise myself on the basis of gender I’m perplexed by the number of women in their thirties and forties who comment that their lot in the world is all the harder because of their sex; equality and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Feminism
Tagged Feminism, forte, Gender, Gender equality, giovanna, Giovanna Forte, good parenting, Nicola Horlick, working mother, Working mothers
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