Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

Jewish Business News

Business

Harold Tillman wants to get back on the UK High Street – and this time around he won’t be letting the bugs bite

tenta- Clothing embedded with Sil2U

 

Please help us out :
Will you offer us a hand? Every gift, regardless of size, fuels our future.
Your critical contribution enables us to maintain our independence from shareholders or wealthy owners, allowing us to keep up reporting without bias. It means we can continue to make Jewish Business News available to everyone.
You can support us for as little as $1 via PayPal at office@jewishbusinessnews.com.
Thank you.

After this process the cloth that will be used in the new range of clothing will be treated with an insect repellent  IR3535, which, while  as equally effective as the most common active insect repellents, is rated as being far less toxic, oily or smelly.

Other projects reportedly being considered by Tillman and his war against the mosquito  is the development of a Sil2U spray which can be sprayed on skin, as well as a range of wet wipes containing a combination mosquito repellent  and sunscreen.

To cash in on this latest development, Tillman is reportedly in the early stages of development of establishing a production facility  that will produce a wide variety of men’s clothing, in particular suits, shirts, trousers as well as other fashion accessories all of them impregnated with the  powerful Sil2U insect repellent.

Tillman’s new project has not only succeeded in capturing the imagination of clothing retailers, particularly those in the warmer climates, but also health associations  across the world. According to statistics issued by the World Health Organisation, around 50% of the world’s population live in climates where they are liable to be victims of mosquito bites, bringing with it  the risk of contracting malaria, an illness which claims an estimated 700, 000 lives annually.

Commenting on the latest development, a spokesperson  for the  UK  based malaria prevention charity The Butterfly Tree, whop are  particularly active in Africa, stated that she would be pleased to welcome anything that has the potential to save lives, whilst urging Tillman to keep his new technology within the price range that will be reachable to people living in less wealthy corners  of the world, as well as setting aside a portion of the future production to be donated directly to charitable causes.

Tillman  has been known in the past for his services to the fashion industry and promoting charity, for which he was aw the owner of arded  Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in Her Majesty the Queen’s 2010 Birthday Honor lIST.

 

Harold Tillman was born into a family with a tailoring background living in London in the tough post-war years. Tillman actually began to work in his father’s tailoring business during his mid teens, to help out his father who had been injured during the Second World War. In the early sixties Harold broke the mold for the first time in the world of fashion when was accepted to study at the London College of Fashion as their first male student.

Tillman graduated from  the college in 1965 at the age of  nineteen, being taken on  as an apprentice at the bespoke tailors Lincroft Kilgour in  the heart of London’s quality fashion district Savile Row. Harold’s rise through the ranks at Lincroft Kilgour could only be described as meteoric, being appointed the company’s managing director three years later, and within the space of another three years, succeeding in floating the company on the London Stock Exchange.

In London of the swinging sixties Tillman was at the very height of the fashion world as well as counting among his friends a host of personalities to a world of entertainment and sport during that exciting era.

In 1975, at the age of just 30, Harold Tillman masterminded the sale of Lincroft Kilgour and in the process became a multimillionaire. Taking some time out from his hectic career, Tillman spent some time in the United States, returning a number of years later embark on his second career, this time in the hospitality industry when he opened the  Rumours cocktail bar in London’s Covent Garden.

It was inevitable that Tillman would return to the fashion industry, which he did when he acquired prominent fashion chain  Honorbilt from Austin Reed. However, this time the successful formula that he had developed during his time with Lincroft Kilgour failed to bring the same results and he was forced into liquidation.

In 2002 Tillman was back in force in the UK High Street when he acquired a majority share in Jaeger, a financially troubled men’s fashion chain in partnership with Belinda Earl. The partners then acquired Allders, one of London’s landmark department stores going on to add the  Aquascutum chain  in 2012, before the group fell into the hands of Tillman’s bankers.

All through his career in the clothing industry Tillman has also retained a  significant interest in the restaurant business through his  First Restaurant Group as well as being a partner in the iconic Notting Hill Brasserie,  with his son Mitchell.

 

Pages: 1 2

Newsletter



Advertisement

You May Also Like

World News

In the 15th Nov 2015 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:   ·         A new Israeli treatment brings hope to relapsed leukemia...

Entertainment

The Movie The Professional is what made Natalie Portman a Lolita.

Travel

After two decades without a rating system in Israel, at the end of 2012 an international tender for hotel rating was published.  Invited to place bids...

VC, Investments

You may not become a millionaire, but there is a lot to learn from George Soros.