Fantastic news, our plant a tree campaign just keeps growing… 31 more trees have been planted in March on behalf of our customers. We plant them at Meadows Farm in-conjunction with our charity partner Shiva Trust. Whose mission is to enact social change by providing a sanctuary for the environment, wildlife, nature, and animals. At

When you’re a new business cash conservation is critically important… But it’s hard to conserve cash when you’ve non or not much trading history, making it impossible to have a positive credit rating. This makes life extremely difficult, as instead of conserving cash and spreading payments you seem to be constantly paying out, and the

You’re not allowed to sign a print technology agreement with another company… This is what an East Lancashire business found in their print technology contract. They’d signed an agreement with a local supplier to them, for a refurbished multi-function device. Before the machine was delivered, they looked at the contract terms in more detail, and

Baseball is said to be America’s favourite pastime… Together with being an amateur sport for the masses, it’s also a professional sport, with Major League Baseball being awash with cash for the best players and successful clubs. Professional sport is a business, where the aim is to win and make as much money as possible

Fixed priced guarantees are a vital element of our DNA… Why? Because we seek long-term customer relationships, and in return we guarantee our customers service agreement price will not increase for the life of their existing agreement. What do we mean? Let us give you a good and bad example: Customers signing up to our

Amazon has changed lives… The world’s best companies (both large and small) are learning quickly what they’re doing and implementing strategies so they can still compete. If you want to know about Amazon (we mean really know about Amazon), then you must read ‘Bezonomics’ written by Brian Dumaine. It’s not a superficial book, Dumaine get’s

Did you know Jeff Bezos wanted to originally call his company relentless.com? It’s true, go put relentless.com in Google and you’ll still find it takes you to Amazon.com, as Amazon have owned the URL since Bezos had the idea. American journalist and best-selling author Brad Stone discusses this very topic in his book ‘The Everything Store.’ Stone wrote: “Friends

Hardware manufacturers hit hardest by the global semiconductor (chip) shortage are said to have had less than five days of chips in their inventories during 2021… We’ve experienced it in our office technology business, with delays in supply of new Konica Minolta print and scan technology, and new Brother Canon Epson multifunction printers. Interestingly, even

As organisations become large and mature drift can set in… What do I mean by drift? The culture that you initially created when the organisation was small and manageable, becomes muddy and blurred, and the things that made your organisation great (in other people’s eyes) no longer happen in the way they once did. Steven

Trying to find and hire star talent is a challenge for every organisation… And it’s no different in our two completely different companies. An office technology & supplies business and an electric vehicle charge point installation company. They couldn’t be more different. But like every other organisation. It’s about building a team full of people