Penelope Chilvers

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500 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 2 Feb

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James Reed: all about business · 64. How to convert visibility into sales and long-term growth | Penelope Chilvers · 2 Feb 2026 podcast

Do you?

Absolutely.

Otherwise, somebody else will get in there and take, you know.

I've been in my factory, sometimes drawing up in the top room above the office in one of my factories.

And I go there and actually sit down and draw out everything that I want to do there.

And then we'll make samples.

Sometimes...

We'll start the samples when I'm there and finish them the next day.

Anyway, I've been in that room drawing away and heard people coming into the factory office and saying, I've heard this is where Penelope Chilvers makes her shoes and we'd like you to make them for us.

And they've come in with, you know, with,

Well, maybe not even competitors.

Would be competitors.

And the factory owners, you know, said, well, she's upstairs.

Do you want to speak to her?

And they go, oh, actually, maybe not.

Yeah, if you don't give a factory good business, then they'll get it somewhere else.

How do you make sure you navigate the... We're in a world of slow fashion now.

I mean, you know, it used to be so much more fickle and fashion...

changed so fast.

But nowadays it's not about that.

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