THE NOT SO MAD HATTER
Hatmaker John Shevlin has more than his rear end well covered as his hats are doing well in the icy spell. Now, you won't get these for 3 Euro in Dunne's or Penny's, but a good hat is probably worth the investment.
Shevlin Millinery
15 Kenmare House
22 North Great George's Street
Dublin 1
Tel : 01 8740447
Mobile : 087 2455565
E-Mail: info@shevlin.ie
Web: www.shevlin.ie
A real mad hatter! Paul Cunningham's headgear as featured on the tv news has spawned its own Facebook page! See Paul's Hat Facebook here
WIN ONE OF JOHN'S HATS BY SENDING US YOUR BEST WINTER HAT PICTURE TO thebusiness@rte.ie - - Get it to us by Friday next 10am and we will announce the winner on Sunday.
John The Hat Shevlin
Another Mad Hatter
SHARP OPERATORS
Helen Ryan is CEO of Creganna Medical Devices, based in Galway. Creganna has just taken over Tactix Medical, another medical device manufacturer. This adds bases California , Minnesota and Singapore as well as their existing facilities in Galway, Massachusetts, and Finland. Creganna's expertise is in catheter and catheter and specialty needle applications.
Creganna,
Parkmore West,
Galway, Ireland
Tel: 091 757801
Web: www.creganna.com
GLASS CEILING ABOUT TO FALL IN?
Jeremy Baker is affiliate professor at ESCP Europe Business School ( London Campus) and he is a bit of a trendspotter - "A tenfold increase in the number of female CEOs in FTSE 100 companies!", "Double the number of female MPs!", "100% growth in women-owned start-ups" are among his latest batch of prediction. Jeremy is in London and he is joined in Dublin by Shenda Loughnane of ICAN.ie, the digital advertising agency. Shenda is Managing Director of Ireland's biggest specialist online agency
ESCP Europe Business School
527 Finchley Road
London NW3 7BG
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 207 443 8800
E-mail : info.uk@escpeurope.eu
Web: www.escpeurope.eu/
iCAN
Warrington House,
Mount Street Crescent,
Dublin 2,
Ireland
Tel: 01 6461018
Web: www.ican.ie
ARTICULATE LORRY DRIVER
Pat O'Donovan runs his own transport company and he called in from Cork to tell John about the big freeze in Ireland and on "De Kontinent" and how they handle metres of snow.. Compare and Contrast!
O'Donovan Transport (Cork) Ltd,
Main Strett,
Carrigtwohill,
Co Cork
Tel: (021)4883399
E-mail: odt@odt.ie
THE TOAST IS BURNT
In 2005 John spoke to Joe and Pamela Fitzmaurice of Blazing Salads - a family run deli who had just expanded into the wholesale organic bread market. These days specialist food companies are having a bad time.. but seemingly not the Blazing Salads gang.
Address: 42 Drury Street, Dublin 2
Website: www.blazingsalads.com/
Email: blazingsalads@eircom.net
Phone: 01 6719552
WHERE'S THE REMOTE? IN LAS VEGAS OF COURSE
Garry McMullan is CEO of Amulet Devices and he talked to John live from the Annual Consumer Electronics show held in Las Vegas.. This is where Google are showing their new smart phone and where all the new toys go on parade.
Amulet are an Irish company who have developed the Amulet Remote. This uses simple voice commands to provide instant access to any media item in your digital library - music, television programs, movies, home videos and photos. And it works, you may have heard them demonstrating the prototypes on the show in October 2008. The remote goes on sale in the US in a few weeks time.
Suite 11, El-Greco Building
St James Court
Serpentine Avenue
Dublin 4, Ireland
Tel: +353 1 67 22 400
Web: www.amuletdevices.com
WE ARE NOT A MUZU
While we are in Vegas, MUZU.TV have just announced that MUZU is to be incorporated into the next generation of Samsung Internet enabled Televisions...
The music video website has created a special TV application of MUZU.TV in conjunction with Samsung. It will be pre installed on 1.5 million televisions in the UK to provide free access to thousands of hours of high quality music related videos including official music videos, interviews, live concert footage, etc.
Ciaran Bollard is Co-founder of MUZU.TV
MUZU TV
Head Office
19 South William Street
Dublin 2
Email: info@muzu.tv
Web: http://www.muzu.tv/
Amulet remote - soon to be lost in every couch in the world.,