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Tuesday the 1st September was the day that the wonderfully named Glaziers Hall on the South Bank played host to the 2015 Glass and Glazing Federation’s Members Day. It’s not the original venue more a modern day reincarnation that’s main attribute is that it causes a diversion away from a nice walk along the Thames.
The theme of the presentations was the consumer, with guest speakers highlighting their views on the subject and identifying how the GGF and its members could get involved and talk to a wider audience.
As an outsider able to observer things just as they were presented that day, the view may have a different take on the event to that of its participants who have been running with their ideas for some time.
It’s interesting on many levels that the Consumer should be the focus of the discussions by an organisation such as the GGF. It’s part of the contradictions and conundrums that life throws up at times. The GGF has some 450 members out of what is said to be 14,500 active players in the fenestration industry. Of that GGF membership the greater majority are the supply chain and as such remote from what causes the industry, the consumer. In having basically a remote make up, it tends to make it a somewhat secretive society obscured from the world in which we live. That said they have a couple of the largest named retail players on board so you could say that more than compensates for the assumed role. ... […more ]
Ian
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