The food scientist, lecturer and one-time Heston Blumenthal protege tailors her events on the science of flavour and gastronomy according to the group – in this case a set of keen and enquiring drinkers.
Another idea being piloted is a new procurement system, designed in partnership with local small businesses, which tailors the process according to the procurement activity taking place.
Partly, though, it is because designing automated replacements for human tailors is hard.
This comes from tailors having to follow their clients to the countryside during the summer.
A generation ago bespoke tailoring declined as men increasingly bought off-the-peg rather than being measured for suits in the small tailors' shops that Zegna supplied.
Even then, it could offer only six issues.In this section The good tailors of Basel Cashing in Piles of it Out, by $100 billion One hand clapping Hard times Never a micro-lender be Base effects Markets as watchmen Correction Reprints Related items The yen: Base effectsFeb 21st 2002Foreign brokers underestimated the difficulty of breaking into Japan's retail market.
The area was set aside for some of the estimated 500,000 slum-dwellers displaced when Delhi hosted the 2010 Commonwealth games: fish-sellers from beside the stinking Yamuna river, tailors, rickshaw-wallahs and hawkers who saw their shacks flattened.
In America Groupon already tailors some offers depending on the sex, location and buying history of a subscriber.The next step is for Groupon to become a broader "platform for local commerce", in the words of Mr Solomon a bundle of services that make that market more efficient.
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A COMPANY called Scaled Composites is to aircraft makers what Ozwald Boateng is to tailors.
Tailors are hunched over pedal-powered sewing machines.
