Writing instruments manufacturer Pentel has raised more than £100,000 in less than a year for Breast Cancer Campaign.

Pentel signed up to become a corporate partner of the charity just before the summer of 2006 with the aim of raising £25,000 by December 2007. Within a couple of months Pentel had already exceeded this target, which prompted the company to aim even higher and raise £100,000.

Staedtler (UK) Ltd has appointed Natalie Lewis (pictured) to the newly created position of Customer Marketing Manager.

Joining from Cunningham Lindsey International in London where she was a Marketing Assistant, Natalie is a graduate in Design for Graphic Communication from Reading University.

Scottish paper manufacturer and specialist coating group Tullis Russell has announced the retirement of Chief Executive Don Munro (pictured below left).

Taking over from Don, in the position of Group Chief Executive, will be Chris Parr (pictured below right), currently Managing Director of Tullis Russell Papermakers. The position will be effective from September 1 this year.

Vivid Laminating Technologies will be exhibiting at the Stationery and Office Products Show next April. The newly launched event is to be held at the Business Design Centre in Islington and is a brand new show for the office products industry. Vivid are enthusiastic about the event and see it as the perfect opportunity to demonstrate new products and make new contacts within the industry.

The Stationery & Office Products Show, which takes place at the Business Design Centre in London on Tuesday, 8th to Wednesday, 9th April 2008, is to sponsor the Brand Awareness Award in this year’s BOSS Industry Awards. The awards are open to retailers, dealers, dealer groups and suppliers; closing date for entries is June 29.

In the midst of Recycle Now Week, a national campaign designed to encourage people to recycle more household waste, local councils continue to refuse to collect and recycle shredded paper.

Environmentally-conscious residents are having to choose between protecting the environment and protecting their identity. By placing personal information like bank statements, utility bills, and even junk mail into recycling containers without destroying them first, consumers are putting themselves at risk of identity fraud.

Muratec, the multifunction specialist company, recently held a dealer partner event at the prestigious Stoke Park Golf Club in Berkshire to launch the new MFX-2200 and MFX-2700 multifunctionals. The venue was the location of the famous golf match between James Bond and Goldfinger and the Muratec event’s Bond theme provided the right atmosphere of glamour and sophistication for dealer partners.

The challenge for manufacturers and retailers is how to keep pace with both the design trends and the discerning taste of the Back to School market, where even at an early age students will have a clear idea of what they want.

Sharp has launched the EL-W531B/GB WriteView calculator to visually aid the learning of secondary school students through correct textbook display and PC emulation software. WriteView encourages students to fully understand problems they are solving by displaying lines of formula in correct text. The screen displays up to four lines of text simultaneously and the “multi-line playback” facility allows students to scroll back through previous calculations and recall previous answers.

Bostik has launched a brand new website (www.stickidots.co.uk). Launched in response to consumer research and demand, the website features a range of step-by-step projects and activities for craft enthusiasts of all ages.

In addition, there is an area dedicated to schools, with lesson plans and projects in line with national curriculum requirements.

Gary Carr comments on the filing and storage sector and how Bisley is leading the way within the industry with its “communicating carbon” campaign.

Bisley has seen increasing pressure from specifiers and end users to know the ‘carbon footprint’ produced in the manufacture of its products.

The new Rexel MO range of mobile organisation products has been short-listed for “Consumer Product Design of the Year” at the Plastics Industry Awards 2007.

Businesses revolve around documents – correspondence, contracts, orders, reports and more. The much promised paperless office is not yet a reality so businesses need to consider what to keep, where to keep it and for how long. Establishing an effective records management programme into three key stages will create an organised and efficient system:

Whilst shredder sales remain buoyant thanks to continuing concerns about identity theft and corporate cloning, with the latest machines available from the quality manufactures, there are also very good reasons for customers to trade up to these newest models.

HSM has always stood for high quality shredding machines. However, to their reputation for German-made durable, reliable and feature-full shredders can now be added style. In addition to a completely new stylish design, the Securio range is also smart, sleek, sophisticated and saves energy.

As essential as a shredder is to every UK home these days, it’s hardly the most glamorous item to wax lyrical about to your friends and colleagues. But all that could be about to change as Swordfish introduces the latest addition to its “Space- Saver” range of shredders.

Vivid are a company who are always looking to identify gaps in the market and fill them with innovative new products. The Linea range of roll laminators is well established and popular with print and copy shops who want to laminate banners and posters continuously. The popularity of this range has led to the development of another sought after model, the Linea DH-460.

It’s almost 100 years ago since the office shredder was introduced and how times have changed! Today there is a shredder for every environment, from the home to the office – and with identity fraud continuing to pose a threat to businesses and individuals alike, shredding has never been more important.

Duplo International is the UK distributor for one of the most comprehensive ranges of quality shredding solutions for the office sector – IDEAL. The range includes the simple manual paper-fed deskside models through to the bulk hopper-fed high volume machines for large corporations, capable of handling credit cards and CDs, etc.

Rexel understands the art of stapling better than anyone.A stapler must be reliable, dependable and consistent and the new PowerEase Pulsar is exactly that.With its solid metal body and light action soft grip, the PowerEase Pulsar stapler can be relied on to give flawless stapling of two to 25 sheets every time, allowing you to staple with as little effort on 25 sheets as on two sheets.

DSales (UK) Ltd has announced the launch of the ineo+550 colour multifunctional. The versatile ineo+550 features standard copy, network print, and network scan. Print speed is 45 pages per minute for colour and 55 ppm for black and white output.

Aberdeen-based Capture Imaging Solutions (Capture) has secured several significant new contracts in a strong first half to its financial year. The contracts are estimated to be worth in excess of £1m. In total, the document management, copy, print and scan solutions service provider has installed over 150 new machines in the period from November to April. Capture is now on target for a record projected turnover of £2m in its second year of trading.

Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd has launched the bizhub C451 multifunction imaging system. The bizhub C451 features network printer, copier and network scanner functionality and can print or copy in colour and black and white at 45 pages per minute. Crucially the bizhub C451 offers the same black and white cost per print as a conventional black and white copier-printer. This means customers can upgrade to the bizhub C451 without paying a premium on black and white output, while getting the versatility of a true colour multifunction system.

Following a lively VIP launch less than a week earlier, RH Chairs latest innovation, RH Ambio, made an award winning debut at London’s Design Prima exhibition, held at Old Billingsgate in May.

With the buzz around RH Ambio having generated plenty of interest in the RH stand over the three-day exhibition, the judges of the Prima FX Awards were keen to see what was wowing the visitors.

Kettering-based 4DM, a market leader in the UK in direct marketing services, has installed two award-winning Océ VarioPrint 5160 cutsheet production printers. The investment is part of the company’s strategy to use the latest technology to offer its customers a high level of service, at the same time as realising cost and production efficiencies.

It’s official and there is no avoiding it, England becomes smokefree on July 1, 2007.

As the ashtray becomes a thing of the past it will be down to the cigarette bin to take over and clean up, and that is where Austin White’s extensive range of bins comes in.

Pentel have raised over £100,000 for Breast Cancer Campaign in less than a year! To achieve this fantastic amount Pentel launched a pink-barrelled version of its Line Style ballpoint pen, donating 20p to Breast Cancer Campaign for every pen sold.

Following an extensive promotional campaign and re-branding of its leading coated SBS board range trucard, Tullis Russell has introduced trucard 1 matt, the first of many exciting additions to be added to the trucard portfolio this year.

BIC® ReAction™ is bouncing onto the scene with a new and innovative springy design, for the ultimate in comfort writing!

The BIC® ReAction™ ball pen and the BIC® ReAction™ gel pen have a unique and innovative springy nib that acts as a shock absorber for a smooth and effortless writing experience.

The Benevolent Fund is the registered charity which has been established to assist people who have worked within the stationery and office supplies industry and have subsequently fallen on hard times.