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Brown and Tiney Office Stationers - Office Point "Dealer of the Year"
Alan Brown, Managing Director, Brown & Tiney Ltd 13th May 2010
Brown & Tiney was established in 1988 by Alan Brown & Gill Tiney, selling the whole range of office supplies at affordable prices.
Brown & Tiney have won the Officepoint “Dealer of the Year” award, a highly prestigious award in the stationery world an achievement Alan & Gill are very proud of.
This is what Keith Williams, Director of Business Development from Officepoint said;
“I am delighted Brown and Tiney won our Dealer of the Year award. The key criteria for the award is 'sales growth' and it is, therefore, very gratifying that a member who contributes to the success of the group appears to be getting some payback”
To find out more how Brown & Tiney can reduce your stationery costs, call Alan on 07836 555042
Local Designer awarded national Design Excellence Award by BALI
Pat Fox, Managing Director, Aralia Garden Design. 4th October 2009
Local Garden Designer, Patricia Fox of Aralia Garden Design has been awarded the ‘Landscape Design Excellence Award’ by BALI (British Association of landscape Institute) for a garden in Allen’s Green. Aralia have been established for just over four years they received a RHS Silver Flora award for their courtyard garden this year at Chelsea Flower Show. They have designed and built many gardens in the local area, and really pride themselves on the empathy that they like to develop with their clients. Aralia’s clients in Allen’s Green are thrilled with the news that their garden has been awarded such a prestigious award. Aralia have been working with Karen & Brian Newman for just over 2 years, a master plan was originally produced and the garden has been completed in stages. The property is a beautiful 18th Century cottage, and the design needed to be very much in keeping with both the property and the surrounding rural landscape. The garden now includes a large family lawn, reclaimed rustic brick pillars with overhead linear pergola planted with lavender and climbing roses. A mini-orchard and vegetable garden with willow fencing and a herb garden close to the house. A living willow ‘igloo’ provides a fantastic play den for their son, along with the cleverly ‘bamboo screened’ trampoline. Oak timbers were used, to match into the internal flooring, for both the entrance archway and Rose Walk Pergola, and 2 new terraces were created using natural sandstone and oak sleepers.
Aralia are offering a Winter Special Offer for November/December only, book a Garden Design Consultation* for November in your garden and receive £25 worth of beautiful designer plants free of charge. Call Pat now for further information on 01279 730 040.
*Garden Design Consultations normally last 1 hour and are chargeable at £50 plus vat
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The Ultimate Courtyard Kitchen Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show 2009
Pat Fox, Managing Director, Aralia Garden Design. 6th March 2009
The Chelsea Flower Show has been showcasing all that’s new in horticulture and the best of the traditional for almost a century and whilst the small courtyard gardens have been a regular feature for a several years, never before has there been a courtyard kitchen garden complete with living wall. Hertfordshire based Pat Fox from Aralia Garden Design will be pulling out all the stops to ensure her modern kitchen garden delivers both a visual wow factor and will inspire even owners of small outdoor spaces to embrace the concept of growing, preparing and eating food outside.
Pat’s Chelsea Flower Show garden will be planted up with only edible plants, absolutely every plant can be eaten. The concept involves seeing the garden as an extension of the kitchen – somewhere to whip up a cocktail, a salad, a sandwich or a smoothie using the freshest ingredients picked directly from the garden.
The garden will boast an impressive Chelsea Flower Show first and possibly even a first at any major world flower show – a living wall planted with edible crops. Pat has worked with ‘green wall’ expert Marc Laurence of Biotecture on the production of the edible wall and all plants for the wall have been grown hydroponically - using mineral nutrient solutions, in rock wool rather than soil.
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[c-]lutions Creative Solutions - Big & Small appear on BBC
Jeremy Rose, Director, [c]-lutions . 24th October 2008
Creative Solutions were asked to produce a range of marketing material to support the national launch of Kindle Entertainment’s latest commission, Big & Small, a new pre-school puppet show for CBeebies (the BBC’s brand for under 6’s).
Drawing on our design experience, we were able to easily import existing images and reproduce them quickly onto a range of quality marketing materials including a series of trade press advertisements, promotional items, banner stands and presentation templates.
Richard Pink, Commercial Director at Big & Small said: “Jeremy produced exceptionally high quality work often at a moment’s notice.
We were delighted with the results”.
[c-]lutions Creative Solutions - Police Training Programme Course Materials for 5 Essex Court
Jeremy Rose, Director, [c]-lutions . 24th October 2008
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5 Essex Court is the leading police law (defendant) set in England and Wales and provides developmental training programmes for police forces and police authorities nationwide. Creative Solutions were asked to produce training material for a series of key seminars being held throughout the UK commissioned by the National Policing Improvement Agency.
We successfully co-ordinated and produced bespoke delegate packs for 53? seminars, each containing over 150 pages of speaker notes together with a mini-cd data card. We also researched and produced a series of video clips for training purposes on the day as well as providing all event support graphics and presentation material.
Our event management expertise meant that all material was delivered ahead of schedule and within budget. Furthermore, our round the clock flexibility ensured that last minute alterations were made immediately and material re-supplied within hours.
The seminars were a success and feedback from delegates was positive. 5 Essex Court was delighted with our professionalism, competence and ability to work around the demanding schedules of its barristers.
Each delegate pack contained a bespoke CD data card, and we chose to work closely with Toucan eMedia to ensure we designed, produced and duplicated over 3,000 CD data cards.
“Jeremy’s meticulous approach to planning and scheduling means that I am always confident to tackle projects with Creative Solutions on far shorter lead times than we could consider with other clients”. Said Toucan partner, Simon Thomas.
Utility Warehouse Discount Club - New Customer Discount Plan
John Parker - Authorised Distributor, Utility Warehouse Discount Club. 18th September 2008
A new Customer Discount Plan is being launched this month (September 2008) that will enable existing residential members to earn a discount on their Utility Warehouse bill by simply encouraging friends and family to join the Club.
All friends and family will have to do is call a freephone number, quoting the Utility Warehouse membership number of the existing customer who has referred them. The existing customer will receive a discount on their bill, every month, for as long as the person they have introduced remains a customer. Introducing just 10 friends could earn a discount of up to 20%.
Existing residential members will receive full information with their September bills.
If you are not an existing residential customer and would life more information, email john@uwdc4choice.co.uk and include your full contact details including landline telephone number and a good time to call you.
Toucan Internet LLP - Launch new Used Car Sales Website
Simon Thomas, Toucan Internet LLP 17th September 2008
Looking to buy or sell a used car quickly and efficiently then www.BuyMyCar.org.uk may is a good starting point. This site is fully featured with private and dealer listings, with images and full descriptions. The back end of the system maintains good regular contact with both buyers and sellers. Enter your ideal car and we'll email you when it becomes available.
More at http://www.buymycar.org.uk
eSlip Ltd - It Pays to Outsource.
Chris Anderson, eSlip Payroll Services Ltd, 17th September 2008
Euroway was running its payroll on an in-house system. As the business grew this was putting a growing demand on the time of the senior personnel responsible.
Overall the high number of variable pay elements utilised within the company made the payroll process complex in itself. In addition much of the business expansion required weekly pay runs and this together with confidentiality issues which made it difficult to delegate, exacerbated the time problem.
eSlip was chosen by Euroway as an outsource payroll provider for a number of reasons
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