Friday 15 February 2008

Hugging World record

On Valentines day, Sandra and Paul Gerrard broke a world record for hugging. They lasted 24 hours and 1 minute together. Yes they wore various Nikken products to keep out the cold and keep up the energy. Watch out for an interview of them in a forthcoming magazine.

Wednesday 13 February 2008

Russian Distributor Of The Year



This is the first time we have awarded this in Russia. It was won by Наталья Козупеева, or for those of you who cannot read Russian - Natalia Kozupeeva. She is a lovely lady who lives down south in Росто́в-на-Дону. I met her a couple of years ago when we opened the pick up centre. At the time she told me she would be doing great things and she was true to her word.
We announced this at Cafe Pushkin and invited a couple of other top leaders, who were also very close to wining, to join in the celebration.

Monday 11 February 2008

HBM

WOW! The Nikken Humans Being More course is one of the things that makes Nikken so special. We had a very interesting weekend in Amsterdam with all the trainers, Distributors and company staff.
Thank you everyone - I had such lovely time. It was good to see you all.
Here are the photos

Friday 1 February 2008

Turkey Facts #1


Time for another visit to Turkey. It's a great place and was made a little more special by the snow everywhere. Though cold the people were as warm as ever. I love the differences in each country. At the moment we are trying to get eNikken up and running. The basics do work now, however credit card processing is a challenge. Most countries have one credit card processor to deal with. In Turkey we have to deal with many processors. The effect is to have many credit card machines (the picture is from our office in Istanbul)....now imagine the complexity of programming all those credit card interfaces (yes they are all different!!). Still that will not deter us, it'll just introduce a little delay as we deal with the processors one by one.