| Journal: TWUK | Section: |
| Title: | Issue Date: 29/05/00 |
| Author: | Page Number: 78 |
| Copyright: Other |
stage right. stage right. stage right.
Airtours Holidays managing director Richard Carrick gave the best presentation by far at the Independent Agents’ conference and the amusingly named professor John Lennon also did a good job.Carrick’s got an advantage over the rest of us because he used to be a lecturer and whether you agree with him or not, he certainly knows how to keep an audience enthralled. He went out onto the streets with a video camera to find out how independent retailers in the clothing business managed to compete and thrive against bigger rivals. That was excellent – it’s high time we all took a broader view and learned some lessons from other industries.
Meanwhile, we all expected the professor to be a bit dull. But he slapped down those people who have overhyped the importance of the Internet in a most amusing way. And I thought there was only one John Lennon.