Wow! Where did those two years disappear to? One moment, I'm rehearsing my speech in London prior to the press launch event of our revolutionary King of Shaves Azor razor (I subsequently binned my 'prepared speech' and gave a passionate...
I can't believe how quickly the last two years have flown by. It seems just yesterday that my team and I were finishing preparations for the debut of our King of Shaves Azor at London's stylish Hempel Hotel, readying our...
A very interesting article was published in the Wall Street Journal today on the cost of shaving. The author, Neil Templin writes "Instead of competing on price, the two big razor makers largely seem to be engaged in a silly...
Nice little NIB (news in brief) piece in today's FT by Jonathan Guthrie (he interviewed me back in July 2008 about our Azor launch in Canary Wharf) on how we're building market share in the UK, how many handles are...
Today, the Daily Mail published this article on price reductions on Gillette Fusion & Mach3 replacement cartridges. I have blogged at here at BrandRoyalty and reproduce my blog below. ----------------- When we launched the King of Shaves Azor last year...
For the next few weeks, King of Shaves Azor is on promotion at a number of UK retailers including Boots, Sainsbury, Morrison's and Tesco. The Azor range is great value at Tesco, where we're save a third on all Azor...
What a week! I flew out to Japan last Saturday, arriving Sunday morning aboard Virgin 900 out of Heathrow. Minor drama on the runway, when the captain said one of the wheels had a puncture, but this turned out to...
On May 11th, an insightful article was penned in The New Yorker by Adam Gopnik, entitled 'The Fifth Blade'. "Failure" he argues, "generates variety", pointing at first to GM (General Motors) "fiddling with metalwork on the grilles of its cars"...
Earlier this week, I looked at our market numbers for March, and year on year. They make compelling reading if, like me, you live and die by how well King of Shaves, Azor is doing against our competitors. Taking 'Shaving...
Breaking news about King of Shaves & Azor - read about it here in the Sunday Times....
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