SmallBizPod #76 – Silver Cross, British branding and international trade

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This week SmallBizPod #76, the entrepreneurs’ podcast, interviews Alan Halsall, chairman of one of Britain’s classic brands, the pram manufacturer Silver Cross. The podcast explores the power of branding, importing, exporting and the secrets of turning around a failed business.

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Show Notes

Summary

Intro:

• 00:00 Introduction to what’s coming up in the show.
• 01:09 Join us on the SmallBizPod Facebook group, now nearly 1,000 strong.
• 01:48 Sponsors section featuring Graham Grinnel of GW Associates a member of Alibaba.com – the full interview can be found here.

Features:

• 04:44 Interview with Alan Halsall, chairman of Silver Cross, a British pram manufacturer with a brand enjoyed by customers as diverse as the Queen and JLo. Alex and Alan discuss how Alan bought and then turned around the fortunes of Silver Cross, the power of brands in a low cost manufacturing world, how to trade effectively internationally and with China, as well as building teams and facing the challenges of the major multiples and the web.

• 33:20 Comments from Edward Beresford-Bolton suggesting SmallBizPod covers guerrilla marketing, Admir Rusidovic and Ian Forbes.

• 34.23 Music – iNSiDEaMiND, Ghislain Poirier
“Twilight Harvest (feat. Ghislain Poirier)” (mp3)
from “Scatterpopia”
(Public Transit Recordings)

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