Spitfire, the leading ISP and Internet telephony service provider, has launched PureStream^TM SDSL for customers requiring high bandwidth SDSL, coupled with 100 percent resilience. PureStream^TM SDSL combines a 2Mb uncontended LLUStream SDSL (including market leading service level guarantees), with a 2Mb uncontended SDSL(M) as a backup circuit - all for a fraction of the price of a 2Mb leased line. This offers outstanding resilience combined with network redundancy as the circuits are provided over different network infrastructure and routing.

The Army calls on its Regular and Territorial recruits to ‘Be the Best' and when they join they are backed up by the best of everything.

Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd has launched the bizhub PRO 1200 mono production print system offering up to 7,200 impressions an hour (120 prints per minute), with a maximum duty cycle of three million prints a month. The launch of the bizhub PRO 1200 extends Konica Minolta's presence in the digital mono print market, offering customers a mid-range production system with outstanding image quality and a comprehensive range of modular finishing options.

AF International, specialist suppliers of ICT cleaning products to the office and IT market, are pleased to announce the launch of Foamclene Pump Action, an environmentally friendly foaming cleaning solution.

Bruce Douglas Marketing Limited - Ultratape  continue to establish themselves as the Quality but Value for Money Adhesive Tape Brand. Ultratape is rel­aunching a number of products  in new updated Retail Packaging. Fragile Tape available in 33m & 66m Lengths, Double Sided Sticky Pads, Super Glue in Tubes & Bottles and a Hand Tape Dispenser with 2 Rolls of Packaging Tape.

Vulnerable heat and moisture, your computer backups are prone to damage or even total loss. Can you afford not to protect it? The answer is no and the Phoenix DataCare Data Safe range from Mind Your IT is the solution!

Fire is very unforgiving.  It doesn't only destroy premises; it will also wipe out the life blood of a company - the critical company information stored on unprotected paper or data.

Increased public awareness of bacterial contamination and its risks to health, is leading to an increase in customer demand for cleaner, safer and more hygienic office environments, according to the experts in silver ion antimicrobial technology, BioCote Ltd.

Over the last decade, consumers have been spoilt by the increasing choice of products in our sectors, from all over the world. Increasingly we have to become more innovative in our art, craft and stationery markets.

Ease of use and minimum mess has helped increase sales of Bostik Sticki Pen by five times over the last 12 months. The manufacturer is now preparing for a peak in sales activity during the ‘back to school' season. 

Leading stationery brand, BIC, is set to build on last year's Back to School success, with its fantastic product range for 2009. BIC's must-have recommendations for the new school term include the Cristal® family, BIC® Kids range, Tipp-Ex®, mechanical pencils, highlighters and permanent markers.

Citizen Systems Europe, the leading manufacturer of dot matrix, label and barcode printers, has helped Astro Labels, based just outside Johannesburg, South Africa, to develop a successful business that produces personalised labels for children's belongings. Originally supplying Citizen label printers to the business market, the niche market for Astro Labels' personalised labels has grown rapidly in recent years.

Blu-Tack®, the market's leading re-usable adhesive, is advising retailers to stock up ahead of the ‘back to school' season following the product's sales success over the last 12 months.

Franken, a long-established specialist in planning and presentation products in their native market of Germany, have recently launched their products into the UK. Included in the new range are professional planning systems, dry wipe planning boards, markers and accessories plus presentation products such as high-end flipchart easels, distinctive notice and white boards plus specialist pockets for TQM (total quality management) and other performance systems. 

A double-page spread in the 2009 Spicers catalogue focuses on planning systems and products from Franken. The pre-printed magnetic-steel whiteboards and modular planning systems, together with a comprehensive range of accessories, represent additional sales opportunities for dealers by highlighting the availability of these items.

Having established themselves in the UK market thanks to comprehensive coverage for their planning range in the Spicers catalogue this year, Franken are now extending their reach by inclusion of their products in the 2010 catalogues of the major dealer groups. 

A quick twist is all it takes. The Franken Multifunction planner can be very easily altered to different planning requirements. The clever feature of the aluminium frame means that the side and top bars, which contain the legend for the X and Y axis of the planner, can easily be rotated for different requirements. This allows the same planner to be used for weekly, bi-weekly, monthly or annual planning plus also as a task or resource scheduler.

MPA International have confirmed COLLINS as "the leading manufacturer of diaries" in the UK.

Market leader, COLLINS, is extremely proud of this reaffirmation from the world's leading research agency in the office products market.

Sasco is the No.1 branded year planner. With 15 different planning designs to choose from, many available as magnetic, card mounted or rolled laminated paper formats, together with a choice of wall mounting options, Sasco continues to lead the way and today offers the most comprehensive collection of dated planning products available. For whatever you're planning, Sasco has a solution

Neale Dataday Limited has been successfully producing diaries, calendars and planners to suit all needs for many years.

Dataday ‘Essential' diaries have been redesigned and feature bright and hard-wearing laminated covers in black, blue and red that match their successful range of wall and desk calendars.

During the 80s and 90s some thought that due to the increasing number of computers and digitalization the paperless office would be soon the reality: without paper, what good would a stamp be? In the meantime we all know that the contrary happened and that more paper and stamps than ever are used in our offices. The stamp will continue to be a valuable complement to printed documents, which are irreplaceable even in our digital-multimedia times.

2008 COLOP created a lot of interest with their new and innovative COLOP Green Line - it has been extremely well received within the Industry. In the meantime the Green Line has its imitators.

2009 COLOP's best seller - the Printer Standard - is offered as a "Special Edition". It is available in three modern colour combinations - each with a white casing and an attractive handle colour. The three colours are orange, pink and coconut and are supplied with the corresponding index card colour The fact that this is a more feminine looking stamp is a welcome addition to the Printer range as more than half of all stamp users are female.

Marking World, official distributors of Bruynzyeel-Sakura Art & Craft materials in the UK brings you the Christmas Deco set - everything your customer needs for Christmas papercraft and correspondence in one eye catching unit. Designed with you, the retailer in mind the Deco set is presented to optimise your valuable space whilst offering product variety, inspiration and value for money to your customers. 

How often do you put letters straight into the rubbish bin and ask yourself if that was a wise move? How often do you sit in front of the shredder ploughing your way through mounds of correspondence, tutting about using expensive electricity and huffing back to the stationers to get a replacement when yours blows up - yet again?

For a reusable, cost-effective and protective alternative to paper or polythene envelopes, look no further than a Versapak mailing pouch.

Alba's range of postal scales starts with a small mechanical scales weighing up to 250g through to electronic scales that weigh up to 100KG. The latest range of Alba postal scales includes angled weighing platforms ensuring that the display is clearly visible every time. The scales are finished in either neutral or vibrant colours and are complemented by glass and stainless steel weighing platforms. An optional mains adaptor is available for all of the electronic scales that also operate with batteries.

With offices in Hong Kong, New Delhi and the UK Elconu have the flexibility to produce the products and satisfy demand.

Stationery must adapt to match the market, so while electronic post reduces the demand for envelopes, internet selling increases the volume of parcels being sent.

Office-products expert Avery is helping to support thousands of children and families affected by genetic disorders in the UK, by sponsoring this year's Jeans for Genes Day.

Every year, on Jeans for Genes Day, millions of adults and children across the country leave their work clothes and uniforms at home and make a small donation to wear their jeans to work or school. This year, Jeans for Genes Day takes place on Friday 2nd October and marks the first time the charity has partnered with Avery.

Konica Minolta mono multifunctionals have received recognition in the prestigious Buyers Laboratory Incorporated (BLI) Spring 2009 ‘Pick' awards for outstanding copier-MFPs in the 41 to 69 page per minute (ppm) and 70 to 90ppm speed ranges.

3L Office Products has once again been awarded the Quantore Operational Award for excellence in quality, product range, operational performance and reliability.

Muratec Europe (UK), manufacturer of multifunction office equipment and business solutions, has won the coveted Editor's Choice award from Print.IT magazine for the Muratec MFX-C3400 colour multifunctional.

AF International, specialist suppliers of ICT cleaning products, has supported the well known children's charity Barnardo's through both a variety of staff fundraising activities and the sale of branded AF products.

July saw the release of the Government's Low Carbon Transition Plan, which plots out how, by 2020, the UK aims to cut emissions by 34%. The plan is a national strategy based on five steps to help generate a low carbon and energy efficient society. Whilst this may seem far removed from the day-to-day running of your business, every little helps and small measures can have a big effect on your impact on the environment.

It's a sign of the times. So dependent on modern technology are we that even the over 65s said they would rather be a laptop than a traditional pen or a piece of paper.

• Competition designed to promote consumer involvement with the brand
• Monthly prize of a holiday to an exotic destination

Inacopia is one of the leading brands of office paper offered by the Portucel Soporcel Group, established in the market for more than 25 years and sold in more than 20 countries, and has just launched a competition offering prizes for consumers.