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Norman’s Note
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t’s hard not to get misty-eyed when looking back at the nineties. For people of my generation, it was a halcyon period, one that is understandably venerated by today’s youngsters. And much to my amazement, I have been reliably informed that the nineties were not just over a decade ago, indeed over twenty years have slipped through our fingers since the millennium drew the era to a close. But nostalgia isn’t what it used to be. And I reference the nineties only because this issue of Commercial Broker is something of a retro throwback. To mark both the NACFB’s 30th anniversary and this very magazine’s 100th issue, we’ve collated a selection of voices that have helped shape the Association and form what it is today.
Norman Chambers Managing Director | NACFB
The Association continues to back print-based media by delivering a physical copy of the magazine to the membership. Whilst we maintain digital versions, the magazine represents the tangible, you’re able to flick through it with your hands. We do this because I know our community values the tangible and is all too aware that not everything can be digitally replaced. Speaking of digital replacement, and in a nod to the NACFB’s 1992 foundational year, the cover feature’s compilation of analogue insights is cassette themed, with the collation representing something of a lovingly curated mixtape; pulling together and uniting elements from across the entire industry. Much like the NACFB itself.
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