In addition to the established ranges from Hainenko, IKON, CORPORATE, WIZARD, GREENLIFE and COLOURWORLD the new WB range is being extended. Each range has a potential dedicated market covering most of the stationery sectors and the WB range is an abbreviation for white box, but has its own logo and style. Included in this range are ballpens, permanent markers, drywipe markers, fineliners, highlighters and erasers. The newest addition to this range is the WB SL drywipe marker.

Benchmark full colour digital A3 office multifunction system answers market need for quality and performance at an affordable price

Sharp has raised the stakes in the office A3 colour MFP market with a new offering that provides performance and productivity in a compact design for small offices and workgroups.

Sharp Electronics has launched the EL-T100W ‘Brain Trainer', a stylish, modern desktop calculator with a difference - it helps train your brain. Containing fun drills that research has shown enhance brain function and keep the mind in good working order.

Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd has launched the bizhub C452, the latest addition to the highly successful bizhub colour multifunctional range. The bizhub C452 has a 45 prints per minute output speed in black-and-white or colour. Designed for intensive workgroup use, the bizhub C452 has an impressive array of high-productivity features.

Costly overtime starts with the incoming mail. Mailopeners offer solutions to deal with all volumes of incoming post from machines that would sit comfortably behind your reception desk to full production units that would normally be located in a dedicated post room.

Some people need to plan further ahead than others.  Meanwhile, some tasks or schedules only last a certain amount of time. The Franken range of Junior planning boards caters for this by offering similar products but with different timescales.

NoteLok^TM is no ordinary security cable...its design is entirely new and indeed revolutionary, far exceeding the abilities of its rivals!

It's unique aesthetically pleasing cuboid design contains patented mechanisms that not only ensure it fits in your current equipment's security slot but, as this lock is truly adjustable, any other you choose to use it with in the future!

BLU-TACK® movies are taking over the web! Would-be animators love to use the tacky, highly-mould- able office favourite to make models for their low-budget masterpieces.

And now Bostik, the makers of Blu-Tack®, want budding Steven Spielbergs and Nick Parks to have a go for real!

In today's tough economy, dealers quite rightly want to know exactly where each penny is going, how it is being spent and how it will benefit their business, before they commit to spending. Dealers must also be able to demonstrate to their own customers the value they add to their business and demonstrate how the products their customers purchase will improve their business processes, image or cost efficiencies. This will ultimately be down to those who have the most day to day contact with the customer: your sales or customer service teams. So proper training is essential to maintain and maximise sales opportunities.

Open immediately for fast right and left filing 100% more effective working

Herlitz OneTip is a quality product that meets the highest standards in material and mechanism.

Staedtler will be focusing on key products at the show, including its unique range of Textsurfer highlighters. Textsurfer classic will be promoted heavily across Europe via an international power page in the brochure. Six vibrant, smudge-proof colours are listed by Spicers, along with two added value promotional packs; the first comprises a pack of six plus two free yellow highlighters and the second is a three-plus-one blistercard.  

AF International, specialist manufacturer of office and computer cleaning products, has announced the launch of six new products to be included in the 2010 Spicers catalogue.

Fellowes will be launching a selection of new products for 2010 at the Spicers SOS show on the 8th - 9th December 2009. Fellowes will be demonstrating new shredders for both desk side and commercial use with Fellowes unique features such as 100% Jam Proof, Safe Sense and Silentshred technologies.

Snopake will once again be attending the SOS show to showcase its exciting new product range. Visitors to the Snopake stand will be able to preview the 2010 new products being listed by Spicers, as well as an introduction into Snopake's new three tier product guarantee system. As market drivers, Snopake has developed the new product guarantee system by undertaking research to find out what consumers are looking for in their filing / stationery. Alongside the new products there will also be a wide variety of current Snopake products, all backed with the Snopake 5 year quality guarantee. 

With the biggest trading period of the year upon us, Michelle Hayman, senior product manager at Bostik, looks at the benefits that craft adhesives offer to retailers and how you can maximise adhesive sales.

Bostik is urging retailers to stock up on its innovative range of craft and stationery adhesives during the peak Christmas selling period.

Blu-Tack®, the original reusable adhesive, is clean, safe and provides an alternative to drawing pins and sticky tape. A household favourite at Christmas, Blu-Tack® is ideal for displaying cards and hanging decorations.

Pentel has completed a massive rebranding of key products in its art materials range, with the introduction of Pentel Arts.

Using a concept originally developed and introduced by Pentel of America Ltd., Pentel Arts has been implemented by Pentel UK on behalf of the whole of Europe.

The VELCRO® brand Office & Stationery range has a product to suit thousands of stationery applications.

Permanent or temporary, light or heavyweight the VELCRO® brand Stick On range provides quick, reliable and easy to use securing mechanisms without the need for pins, tape or nails, there is a VELCRO® brand product to meet almost any need.

These handy glue pens deliver both permanent and semi-permanent bonds. For a permanent bond, use when the glue is wet (blue). For a temporary bond, use after the adhesive has dried to clear and becomes a tacky bond. Ideal for tacky notes, masking, positioning, photographs and so much more - and what's more the tacky bond will leave No Residue!

For many, the Snopake name has been synonymous with correction fluid. Rightly so, as Snopake was indeed the world's first ever correction fluid, from way back in 1956. Since its re-launch in the UK in 1987, the company has expanded the brand to encompass other stationery lines such as Sticky Notes, Glue Sticks as well as an extensive variety of Polypropylene filing and presentation products. Snopake products can be used either in the office, school or at home and are ideal for desktop use either to create a fashionable, colourful, stylish image or for functionality and durability.

Duraweld, one of the UK's leading ring binder manufacturers has launched a new online service. The service not only allows online account management and credit purchases for customers; but offers a unique ‘build a binder' service for vinyl ring binders.

Environmental awareness is growing in every marketplace and companies are starting to stand up and take real responsibility for their actions, especially when it comes to packaging and waste. Becoming more environmentally efficient not only helps to cut down on how much waste we create but can also lead to cost reductions. For instance, AF's new range of refills provides customers with a convenient product that encourages more environmentally friendly behaviour yet still offers great value.

AF International, the leading manufacturer of office cleaning products, has developed a new range of environmentally-friendly refill packs for existing and popular product ranges such as Phone-Clene, PC-Clene, Interactive White Board wipes and Screen-Clene. The range has been developed to encourage end-users to make more environmentally aware purchasing choices and to help them reduce their packaging waste.

The market for alternative products to branded toner cartridges is long and well established. In any high value market dominated by branded products, there will always be companies who look to ‘piggy back' on the success and produce a lower cost alternative - the toner market is no different.

Until 1770, when John Tetlow invented a machine that produced ruled paper, all lines had to be drawn onto paper by hand.

Until now, those lines have been dark.  

Office has expanded their range of recycled notebooks to include both Casebound and Wirebound offerings. Wirebound recycled notebooks come in oversized A4+ and A5+ formats which have pre-punched, perforated pages that tear cleanly to standard sizes for neat filing. They also contain a page marker-ruler made from 100% recycled polylactic acid (a corn starch derivative) featuring earth-inspired designs with leaf and tree motifs.

Kodak has won the DSG International Supplier Excellence award for best Computing Peripherals and Software Supplier. Accepted by Kodak's European Managing Director John O'Grady on 15th October 2009 at DSGi's Supplier Conference event, the award reflects Kodak's great contribution to the Consumer Inkjet market across Europe.

Spitfire's SIP Communicator^TM hosted telephony service has won the Editor's Choice award from Business Info magazine. SIP Communicator^TM provides phone system functionality remotely hosted by Spitfire, the leading Internet Telephony Service Provider. It requires only SIP compatible handsets, making the service an extremely cost-effective solution for business start-ups and small businesses that are growing and anticipate moving premises or are spread over multiple sites.

Midwich, one of the UK's leading trade distributors, has signed a distribution agreement with Fellowes, a global leader in the design, production and marketing of award-winning office products and business machines.

A new advertising campaign launched by IllicitEncounters.com promises to provide offices and workspaces around the UK with free mugs.

The website, which provides a platform for married and attached people to have affairs, has produced hundreds of mugs, bearing profession-related slogans, as part of a new unorthodox promotional campaign. In the last month, over 150 mugs have been shipped out to offices across the UK.