Hewlett Packard have announced 10 or 15% price rises to the following Toners with effect from January 1st 2012
Each year Fellowes run an Identity theft Awareness campaign to raise the issue of identity theft (and to sell more shredders!) they have lots of useful hints and tips here
If there are any issues surrounding the safe destruction of Paper based documents then we would be delighted to offer advice.
If you have any IT (pcs or servers) that need disposing of then again we can offer advice just ask
The events in Japan in the last few days are already affecting supplies and will ultimately will affect price.
The main supplier for the chips in the initiative® brand, Toshiba, were badly affected. Consequently, there has already been significantly increased demand for these products.
We currently have some stocks of 2GB, 4GB and 8GB drives.
The replacement stock position is uncertain at this time both in terms of price and availability. We will keep you informed of any developments as soon as we have firm information.
We expect these terrible events in Japan to quickly affect other technology products.
We sell an awful lot of tea & coffee, a lot of our customers find it much easier to order from us and get their tea, coffee and sugar delivered in with their regular office supplies order than trekking out to the supermarket.
If coffee was taxed like alcohol, it would be more expensive than wine
Coffee is produced in about 50 countries globally, most of which are in the “third world”
Coffee contains B-complex vitamins and is fat and calorie free
Coffee is the most popular drink worldwide, with around 2 billion cups consumed everyday
In 2007, UK consumers spent £720m on coffee
Around 80% of office workers say they find out more about what’s going on in the workplace over a cup of tea than any other way.
Of all the cups of tea consumed in the UK 96% are made from tea bags
Only 2% of tea drinkers like their cuppa without milk and 30% take sugar
Dunking your biscuit into a milky drink gives you upto 11 times more flavour release than from eating the dry biscuit alone
The humble custard cream is the nations favourite, with over 90% of people preferring it to any other
Almost a third of British adults have choked and 10% have broken a tooth while eating a biscuit
Christmas is getting closer, and we are helping lots of our customers get prepared. Some are buying envelopes and paper for their Christmas mailings, others are buying biscuits and juice for the Christmas party. Whatever happens dont forget to post your cards in good time.
The last guaranteed dates for Christmas delivery are as follows:
If you are not sure Royal mail have a simple little tool to help you and they also produce a guide for writing letters to Santa!
Please vote today for Grozone – your local community garden project
Today Grozone Community Garden, Northwich will take part in the People’s Millions funding competition on ITV Granada Evening News.
We could win £48,000 to create the community garden designed by the community for the community – right in the heart of Northwich.
The result will be down to the number of votes the project gets today.
Please call 0871 626 8835 between 9am and midnight today to register your vote. Each phone can vote up to ten times. Calls from a BT landline cost 15p.
Watch Granada ITV Evening News to find out more. You can also visit here
The funding will be used to
• Train volunteers – new and existing – in how to create and maintain the garden
• Expand engagement with community groups, schools, local volunteers and special needs groups
• Turn a disused area of land into a garden for all the community
Please contact beth.brockett@groundwork.org.uk or visit here for more details and to find out how to visit the Grozone project.
We are trying to up our game in terms of how we present ourselves online.
We have had a twitter account for a while and been mainly tweeting office gossip, this has attracted lots of followers who are obviously very interested!
We dont have a facebook fan page as I am unsure about what benefit this would be to customers.
Jonathan, Dave and I are all on LinkedIn and have been connecting with customers, suppliers and contacts. We have all found this useful.
Our online shop continues to grow, more and more customers are using it and finding it a benefit. I dont think that the FREE BISCUITS have nothing to do with it.
And of course we have just started this blog. I am very excited about this and feel that this is a great way for us to share information
Some of the lads are taking part in Movember
Chris, Mike and Me are all growing moustaches to try and fundraise and raise awareness of prostate cancer.
Look out for us proudly walking around Northwich looking like Ron Jeremy, Charlie Chaplin or Magnum (Tom Selleck)
Send us an email to let us know who we would look like!!!
Welcome to the Office Essentials blog.
The aim of this blog is to give customers and suppliers a view of what is going on at Office Essentials.
We will try to give an insight into some of the issues that are affecting the office supplies marketplace, some of the challenges that our company is facing and some of the things that the people who work here are upto!
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