Office products market leaders Avery Dennison have improved their support to customers with an expanded trade marketing team led by Petra Naubert (pictured), who has worked across different European markets for Avery Dennison Office Products for two years.

Six months on from the launch of the furniture dealer’s new identity, Dovetail has won a highly coveted Red Dot award for Communication Design.
Having worked with design agency 999 Design on the visual representation of the company- from a new logo device, corporate literature and web-site through to the “Seamless thinking” strap line - Dovetail have reinvented themselves, the new identity reflecting their status as one of the country’s leading furniture solutions providers.

Pentel signed up to support Breast Cancer Campaign in late spring 2006, with the aim of raising £25,000 by December 2007.
Pentel has already smashed this target and has so far raised over £130,000 for the charity. Their new target is £150,000, which the company intends to raise by the end of December 2007.

The summer edition of “Outlook”, the James McNaughton Group’s newsletter for customers, is now available.
Packed full of all the latest news about the group’s products, services and activities, from new recycled and FSC certified products to customer Chain of Custody seminars, “Outlook” is available from your local McNaughton Sales Centre.

The UK office supplies industry is seeing a mini-resurgence, despite recent jitters on the domestic and world markets, according to leading business analysts Plimsoll.
“Our summary of the market finds 53% of companies in the sector in a surprisingly confident mood,” says David Pattison, senior analyst at Plimsoll.

Howard Smith Paper Group has announced the first in what will be a number of unique specialist appointments to its Customer Value Proposition (CVP) team.

The first appointment will see Kevin Booth (pictured) join the team as its specialist in the role of Strategic Business Development – Cost in Use.

The momentum continues to build for next April’s Stationery & Office Products Show.

The country’s leading dealers have welcomed the arrival of a dedicated event in the UK that the whole industry can attend.

Cheltenham-based The Commercial Group and Scottish dealer Langstane have both voiced their support for the show.

Incorrect packaging and labelling can cause companies to have huge financial burdens. Improving the standard of packaging and labelling in the supply chain will make a significant difference in reducing hidden cost in areas such as incorrect barcodes, illegible descriptions, incorrect picking, redelivery of products incorrectly labelled and even fines imposed by customers for mistakes with packaging and labelling.

Most of us associate identity theft with the Internet, cash machines and personal receipts in household waste. But every business holds information about its staff, which in the wrong hands would be enough to steal the identity of an employee, and many businesses and services hold customer or client details useful to ID fraudsters.

Krug and Priester GmbH has been successful with its IDEAL brand of shredding machines for over 50 years. How does such a German company maintain its market position when competition is so widespread? Nowadays all the usual plus-points such as quality, styling and value are reasonable expectations of business purchasers. IDEAL’s focus is, therefore, to be a leader in introducing innovative features to shredders that genuinely benefit both performance and user-friendliness.

When establishing a business, every step is taken to ensure security and protect its name. Auditing your business’ intellectual property rights, fitting CCTV surveillance cameras and enforcing regulation and compliance rules are all common behaviours. However still too many businesses are overlooking one of the greatest risks: corporate identity fraud.

CPU Holders 4U have added a lockable PC Holder to their current range due to a growing demand for laptop and pc security peripherals.

Originally the CPU Holders 4U PC and laptop security range was designed to improve office ergonomics, however increasing demand has led to an expansion in the product range.

National Identity Fraud Prevention Week takes place this month, but have Britain’s businesses woken up to the threat of identity theft? According to a recent survey, the answer is no.

Midwich, the UK’s leading distributor for printing, AV, digital imaging, computing, displays, printing, consumables and peripherals, has unveiled a new strategic business unit dedicated to the sale of automatic identification (Auto-ID) solutions.

Duplo International has been supplying document presentation equipment and supplies for over 30 years. Duplo’s comprehensive range of binding, laminating and presentation machines – supplied UK wide with guaranteed next day delivery – offer the very latest in user friendly and reliable solutions for the office environment.

A binding system that combines affordability and reliability can be hard to find. With so many products promising the world it is becoming more and more difficult to decide which one is right for you. Yet the questions from customers remain the same: “how expensive is it?”, and “is it reliable?”.

Look no further than this unique step by step wire binding system. Eco S 360 and SRW 360 are the latest models in the Renz binding machine range.

Paperworld China is set to host an exciting array of fringe events scheduled from November 20th to 22nd 2007 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. Nearly 600 exhibitors have confirmed their display space at this highly anticipated event to showcase to an expected attendance of 25,000 visitors.

If you want stylish yet robust quality staplers and hole punches, look no further than Rapid. With a Swedish heritage, Rapid’s range of desktop, electric and heavy duty products are innovative and ergonomically designed making them comfortable and easy to use.

The “X5” staplers are the latest addition to a more modern and dynamic product assortment from Rapesco.

X5 is the new programme of “power assisted” stapling machines with reduced pressure used to activate the stapling machine. Simple to use and incorporating quality features such as push button front loading system only found on premium quality stapling products.

Rapesco are pleased to report continued success with the new Zero Series range of staplers and punches, achieving exceptional year to date sales growth in spite of tough market conditions.

Rapesco leads the way in stapling machine and hole punch manufacturing, with innovative and patented engineering designs and passionate styling. This is shown in one of the latest additions to the Rapesco product range with the Premium P20 Shimma Stapler and P30 Punch.

By Guy Costin, Commercial Market Manager UK, Rexel

Rexel knows that strength and ease of use are vital when it comes to staplers. PowerEase staplers from Rexel use revolutionary spring technology to help you deliver beautifully stapled documents every time, but with 70 per cent less effort than traditional staplers.

Staples success story started with a broken printer ribbon. Former supermarket chain executive turned entrepreneur, Tom Stemberg, was writing a business plan for a new venture when his printer ribbon broke. It was the weekend of July 4th and the local stationer was closed. Stemberg went to an open local wholesale club, but the store didn’t have the correct ribbon.

Ensure you don’t miss out this Christmas and stock up on Christmas essentials from Bostik.
Must-have items for every customer preparing for December 25th, Blu- Tack, Sticki Tape and Sticki Dots will help make lighter work of Christmas and put the fun back into the festive season, ensuring all those creative flourishes are in place!

Wishawish.com, the online corporate e-card provider, is spearheading a campaign to change the way UK businesses send corporate cards, offering a viable environmental alternative to traditional printed cards.

Sellotape has two specially packaged “Gift Wrap Tape” for Christmas 2007’s wrapping season - Gift Wrap Tape and Gift Wrap Tape on a handy dispenser.

The new bizhubs C30P and C10P from Konica Minolta combine the high functionality and quality standards of the bizhub range with the more personal touch of desktop printers. The bizhubs C30P and C10P serve their purpose just as effectively whether they are used as additional network printers within a printing infrastructure or as individual workstation printers. Wherever they are used, the bizhubs C30P and C10P make colour and monochrome printing easy, instantaneous, efficient and reliable.

Araldite has launched Fusion Power Adhesive, an incredibly strong “no mix” ready-to-use adhesive, supporting it with a highly successful television advertising campaign that has challenged the “superglue” sector.

Retailers may be surprised to know that in this age of home and office technology, the correction products market remains extremely buoyant and is currently worth £11 million at retail value.

Exhibition organisers HITF Ltd have unveiled an exciting programme of seminars and demonstrations to coincide with their three exhibitions in Harrogate in January 2008: Christmas & Gift, Card & Wrap and Clearance.