While the nation's fittest, including many distinguished foodies, sweated and puffed around London in the Marathon last Sunday, I trotted gently off to Olympia for the Natural Products Show a feast of organics.
Not just pony tailed, lentil soup gorging, Roman sandled green disciples filled the main hall. I spotted a fair number of multiple folk among the independent specialists.
Mind you, I hadn't bargained for the sight of an elder statesman of the grocery press fraternity, apparently being measured for size on a stand which offered punters the chance to have their bodies reshaped.
He seemed taken with the salesman's patter and, I can reveal, his six feet four inch frame has stomped the office with a new spring this week. Could it be that a new man has emerged from the Natural Products Show? We'll keep readers informed.
Two colleagues were dispatched to Telford this week to cast an eye over P&H McLane's Pro-retail. They report there was a definite buzz about the show with plenty of happy visitors and exhibitors.
One P&H wheeze to ensure a captive audience is the bus service it lays on for retailers from its depots to the show. However the constant announcements "ding dong. The bus from Torquay has just arrived" did give the show the air of a bus depot. And some male exhibitors proved to be very poor interviewees, completely losing the plot as a 6ft-plus lady with legs as long as her skirt was short wandered by, plugging the products of a tights company.
{{COUNTERPOINT }}
No comments yet