Carole Bamford Year' at the Food and Farming awards. In April 2012, Daylesford received 'UK's Best Organic Retailer' with the virtual online farmshop on Ocado, at the Natural and Organic Product awards. Bamford, launched in 2006, sells clothes using natural fibres. The Bamford brand also sells natural body, bath, baby and home products. These products have been developed as body treatments for the Hay Barn holistic retreat, Herb House spa at Limewood and the spa at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc. Lady Bamford (along with her husband) is on the board of directors of the family business, JCB. The company employs around 10,000 people
Bamford–Stevens reaction Bamford–Stevens reaction The Bamford–Stevens reaction is a chemical reaction whereby treatment of tosylhydrazones with strong base gives alkenes. It is named for the British chemist William Randall Bamford and the Scottish chemist Thomas Stevens Stevens (1900–2000). The usage of aprotic solvents gives predominantly Z-alkenes, while protic solvent gives a mixture of E- and Z-alkenes. As an alkene-generating transformation, the Bamford–Stevens reaction has broad utility in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis. The treatment of tosylhydrazones with alkyl lithium reagents is called the Shapiro reaction. The first step of the Bamford–Stevens reaction is the formation of the diazo compound 3. In