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REFLECTIONS on a job well done

NZB: Looking back over your 18 years with The Icehouse, if you had to pick two standout personal moments, what would they be?

ANDY: Starting at the beginning on both our key target markets. For the start-ups, day one was the 11th of June 2001 at the Textile Centre – in an area with no fit-out. It was a cavern with a stool and a table – just me – and it was like: right, let’s get some bodies into this place.

For the owner managers, day one was in mid-August – our first OMP programme at Hotel du Vin with our facilitators and David Irving. It was like ‘crikey, what have we let ourselves in for, with this group of amazing

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