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Confucius name a big seller in China
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QUFU, China Kong Demao, 80, admits to being ignorant of the ways
of commerce, profit and loss.
But she has something that every business seems to want these
days in China, with its weakening economy and competition among
thousands of companies. Kong has a name, and quite a name at that.
Kong Demao is one of two surviving members of the 77th
generation of the family of Confucius, China's great sage. Since the
early 1990s, she has been the nominal chairwoman of three distillers
in the Qufu region, the ancestral home of Confucius, who is believed
to have lived from 551 to 479 B.C.
Until ...
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Josiah Wedgwood and His Circle
Magazine article from: Antiques & Collecting Magazine
; ...Gallery in New York City presents Josiah Wedgwood and His Circle, on view through...trace the career and legacy of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795), an English...located ten miles north of London, Josiah Wedgwood emerged as the most ambitious...
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 "Sentinel, The (Stoke-on-Trent UK)")
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Troubled wedgwood can only pray for another josiah
Newspaper article from: Sentinel, The (Stoke-on-Trent UK)
; ...are being sent out for a new Josiah Wedgwood to save 250 years of manufacturing...the world. "Hopefully another Josiah Wedgwood is going to come along and say...altogether." Mr Hughes said Josiah Wedgwood set the standard for the global...
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Josiah Wedgwood. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...Chatham's funeral, Josiah secured a portrait...reproduction in jasper. Wedgwood saw this |multiplying...laboratory in 1791, Wedgwood was quick to offer him...Reilly doubts whether Josiah was ever a member of...fellow |Lunatics'. Wedgwood earns his place in history...
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Josiah Wedgwood (1872-1943): the Commons Sense biographies of MPs from the past come from the work of the History of Parliament. Its founder, Josiah Wedgwood, was himself an MP: here David Cannadine writes about him and his creation.(COMMONS SENSE)
Magazine article from: History Today
; JOSIAH WEDGWOOD WAS Member of Parliament for Newcastle...he bore, was the famous potter, and Wedgwood took enormous pride in his family...monument to a great institution (and to Josiah Wedgwood), and it should be savoured and treasured...
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Underrated: The case for Josiah Wedgwood
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...In 1863, nearly 70 years after Josiah Wedgwood's death, William Ewart Gladstone...whole life. n 'The Genius of Wedgwood' at the V&A, London, 8 June-17 Sept (0171-323 8988); 'Josiah Wedgwood: the Man and his Mark' at Stoke...
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JOSIAH WEDGWOOD: ENTREPRENEUR TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...and product placement JOSIAH WEDGWOOD: ENTREPRENEUR TO THE...previous two decades was Josiah Wedgwood, 'Potter to Her Majesty...of the gene pool in Josiah. After an apprenticeship...the Public good'. In Wedgwood were merged all the...
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Lessons from old millennium. (On Marketing).(Josiah Wedgwood as effective brand builder)(Column)
Magazine article from: Arkansas Business
; ...illustrative to me was the story of Josiah Wedgwood, who founded his own pottery workshop...ate from wood or pewter plates. Wedgwood recognized that times were changing...gardens of the rich. In response, Wedgwood developed an improved creamware...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Josiah's descendants are preparing to table a bid for Wedgwood; ACQUISITION.(Business)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; Two members of the Wedgwood family said yesterday they were considering...eighth-generation descendants of Josiah Wedgwood, who founded the firm in Stoke...business and plan to bring production of Wedgwood and Royal Doulton back to the UK if...
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A master potter: in the July 1930 issue, H. Granville Fell described the career of Josiah Wedgwood and how time in his sickbed spent researching his craft led him to become one of the world's greatest ceramicists.(FROM THE APOLLO: ARCHIVES)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...industry, of the world than Josiah Wedgwood, the great English potter...soil' ... The life story of Josiah Wedgwood is one of the romances of the...the coarsest description... Josiah Wedgwood was the youngest of 13 children...
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BOOK REVIEW: Biography of British potter, businessman Josiah Wedgwood.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; ...Business News Oct. 24--Would that Josiah Wedgwood had lived another two or three...18th-century British potter. Wedgwood was born in 1730 to a family long...the ancient Roman Portland Vase. Wedgwood was also forever improving his...
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