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News live from the Keswick Mountain Festival
11.30 We arrive at the Keswick mountain festival. Not much going on at the moment. We set our stall out in the rain not feeling overly chuffed. A breakfast butty from the burger van cheers us up and the beauty of our surroundings suddenly dawns on us. Our plot is on the shore [...]
Loving Outdoors Festival Guide 2011…
Season’s greetings! It’s that special time of year when it becomes obligatory to pack your tent, some lagers and travel to a field to listen to pop music for 2 to 3 days- that’s right- festival season is here again! They all come out of the woodwork at festival time: people with dreadlocks, people who [...]
Ecology in Business
In these ‘eco-friendly’ times businesses are only too keen to prove their environmental credentials. For some this means little more that recycling office paper. For others it means anthropomorphising products with cutesy infantile language. And for others it means making a concerted effort to minimise carbon emissions. Some businesses manage all three. Of course, any [...]
The Loving Outdoors Africa Diary
Click here to see the pictures taken from the visit In 24 hours I will be in Africa- Malawi to be precise. The trip was planned 8 months ago and is part of our Loving Earth strategy, aimed at giving time and financial assistance to causes around the world. The plan is to get [...]
Golite Spring Range Launched!
Spring has sprung bringing with it a brand new range of clothing from the award-winning eco-friendly activewear company, GoLite. This latest collection takes in the colours of spring with the azure blues, fresh greens and earthy reds marking a break from the sleepy winter and the dawning of a vigorous new season. Golite’s spring collection [...]
L’amour Du Plein Air
Hello everybody, my name is Quentin and I’m from France. I’ve been on a placement at Loving Outdoors for the last 2 weeks and will stay until June. I arrived in Manchester in September to study English and discover what English culture is really like behind the stereotype. As everybody can guess in France, England [...]
New Bike
I’ve got a new bike. One of those single gear jobs. It’s really light and really yellow and really awesome- a bit like the one pictured above. Probably won’t take it off-road but it’s great for buzzing around the roads and gets me Loving Outdoors HQ in no time. I hope it doesn’t get stolen [...]
Czech-ing out Manchester
Bio: Marek is on placement at Loving Outdoors. He is helping us add new products to the website and in the process is practicing his English with the team and learning a bit of basic HTML. He is a pleasure to have around the office and he will be missed when he leaves in the [...]
Sun, Sea and Sand- Great British Holidays
With the icy shackles of winter finally thrown off it’s the time of year many of us begin to make plans for the summer. It can be tempting to jump on a plane and book yourself in for two weeks of sun drenched debauchery next to a swimming pool somewhere in the Mediterranean- but figures [...]
Relationship capital: the new currency in customer services
Companies are valued based on profit, assets and liabilities with some goodwill consideration given to other factors, like none contracted and informal business relationships. But in the newly social online world are these criteria still enough? I’m not so sure. What is relationship capital? The growth of social media has given customers real power, and [...]
