Joining Sep 2009 OSPAP

[johnep]

BBA only really sold this perfume sub sahara. Carried by caravan across sahara from Sudan to Northern nigeria and local factory then set up in Kano.

The story of that business is interesting (well to me). W J Bush kept getting £5 postal orders for bint from a market trader. It was there policy to visit every customer and in due course a salesman made contact, meeting in a cafe in a bazaar. The salesman asked the trader, who was native Nigerian (not european like most merchants dealing with Uk) if he could not give them a larger order. The trader replied that he could not get a loan from the European managed banks. The salesman made a decision to give him rolling credit of £100 (Was the late20s early 30s). Was not long before the trader became Bush's agent in Nigeria and became a millionaire eventually.

I followed the rule of visiting every contact and granting credit based on my judgement and never had a bad debt.
johnep

[t01kkk5]

hi

[johnep]

When you say you want reference templates, do you mean that you intend to forge them?
johnep

[Sir_Dispensalot]

no disrespect to yourself kishore but through no fault of your own india is rife with corruption, and the forgery of documents (especially for the purposes of emigration from india) is big business.

The more you can have legally certified as genuine the better and easier it will be for you to get on an OSPAP course.

[t01kkk5]

hi,
sorry, i dont forge and dont have to.
i have to provide a sample reference letter to my supervisor as requested so that she would decide what to add in the reference letter.
Infact, i was asked to write a letter of my own and she would sign it
Unfortunately i think i misled the community members
thanks very much for your help
kishore

[t01kkk5]

Hi,
thanks for your prompt reply
I finished my MSc in Clinical Pharmacology with 2 international publications.
I am in the UK and my supervisor asked me the contents to be added in the reference letter and infact she asked me to write it myself and she would sign it.
sorry for misleading members here
thank you very much for your help
kishore

[Rafael]

what a lazy supervisor

[paul2008]

I have almost always been asked to draft my own reference letters some times I google a template but the best I find is something along the lines of:

I have known ....... since... he ...... with/under me...... from/until ....
I would not hesitate to recommend him.

Please contact me for if you require any further information.


Short and simple. Business letter templates in most word processors. Once I did some reading and drafted a tailored reference letter but I don't think it made much difference.

[veensp]

Veensp, share your opinion with us. would selling bint el sudan be a good business in your country? i doubt tho

Hi Raoul,

Yes, I think so...... Every thing goes in INDIA...

[johnep]

Bush Boake Allen have a factory in Chennai. bint not listed. Presumably because sold to Moslems, not Hindu. On that premise should be popular in Pakistan, Bangladesh etc.

If I was concerned with marketing would certainly try all areas of the world where moslems predominate.

However, we did sell a flavour 'pearade' to Union Soda in Thailand which although a massive seller locally, faltered in other markets where coke and pepsi were kings.

Bint was not a sophisticated perfume and in westernised societies, never popular.

Our head perfumer was a pharmacist.
johnep