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DDG apprentices ‘a huge asset’
Document Data Group is reaping the benefits of an apprentice
program developed in conjunctions with QA Apprenticeships, the
first IT apprenticeship business to be rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted.
Following a 50% increase in turnover last year, from £2.2 million to
£3.3 million, the fast growing office equipment supplier has taken on six
technical apprentices and one business apprentice, increasing its headcount
to 35.
All seven have embraced working at DDG and are aiming for a full time
career in the business after they complete their apprenticeship.
Operations Director Justin Longmuir said: “Apprenticeships seemed to
be the way to go. I wanted recruits who would be committed to DDG and
be young and enthusiastic. QA Apprenticeships provided us with a fantastic
selection of young people who have proven to be a huge asset.”
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New Commercial contract for Turbon
Commercial Office Supplies has extended a relationship established in 2014 and
awarded Turbon a new three-year contract to produce the company’s own-brand
toner cartridges at its Romanian manufacturing facility. As part of the contract,
Turbon will also recycle empty toner cartridges collected from Commercial
customers.
Turbon has a zero waste toner remanufacturing process. Nothing is sent to landfill and any
cartridges or sub-assemblies that can’t be used in remanufactured toners are broken down into
separate material streams and recycled for use in other products.
Fun in the sun
‘Absolutely brilliant’, ‘unmissable’, ‘fantastic’
and ‘wonderful’ were some of the adjectives
used to describe VOW’s inaugural Heatwave
incentive, which took place in Italy in May.
Introduced as an alternative to VOW’s popular
Whiteout incentive for partners who prefer sun
and sandals to snow and skiing, the four-day
trip to Sorrento included a cookery course at the
Quanto Basta Cookery School and an excursion to
Pompeii.
The incentive was supported by sponsors Acco,
Fellowes, 3M, BIC, Exaclair, Brother, Nestle, Henkel,
Energizer and 2Work.
DMC smashes Q1 fund-
raising target
DMC Business Machines has hit the
first quarterly fund-raising target in its
12-month Giving Back initiative.
The Croydon-based distributor has pledged
to raise £10,000 for the for Starlight Children’s
Foundation by making a donation for every
Planitgreen toner they sell and through other
fundraising activities including a 5K run, The
London ColorVibe 5K, and The Purbeck Plod.
DMC successfully achieved its Q1 target of
£2,500 in the first week of June. This will be used to
fund 25 Starlight Distraction Boxes containing toys,
puzzles and games that are used by doctors and
nurses to distract seriously ill children from the tests
and treatments that many endure on a daily basis.
In Q2, DMC aims to raise another £2,500, this
time for Starlight Parties for hospitalised children.
Since April, DMC has raised in excess of £3,300.
Supporters can make donations to Starlight
Children’s Foundation via the planitgreen
team’s Virgin Money Giving account at.
www.
virginmoneygiving.com/team/planitgreen
Annodata boosts cloud
communications offer
Annodata is supporting its continued drive
into the unified communications market
with an expanded offering from cloud-
based communications specialist Fuze.
Fuze, which has been positioned as a
visionary in Gartner’s
Magic Quadrant for Unified
Communications as a Service, Worldwide
, unifies
business voice, text and conferencing services on a
single award-winning cloud platform.
Annodata has already engaged with a number
of enterprise customers to help them understand
the variety of benefits that cloud adoption can
bring in terms of security, business continuity and
budget efficiency.
Annodata CEO Rod Tonna-Barthet said: “We
have in recent years been working hard to ensure
that we are able to deliver flexible, innovative and
reliable communications services for our customers
and the solutions offered by Fuze fit the bill on
all counts. They’ve got a very strong cloud service
proposition, which means that we are able to offer
something different to our increasingly mobile-
and cloud-hungry customers.”
Commercial acquires
London MPS provider
Commercial Group has strengthened its
presence in the capital with the acquisition
of London office supplies company and
managed print services provider Wiles
Greenworld Ltd.
Arthur Hindmarch, Managing Director of
Commercial, said: “Commercial has seen strong
growth in recent years, and this acquisition,
together with our new office in Leeds, gives us a
greatly enhanced national platform to continue
our long term goal of organic revenue growth.”
To ensure a smooth transition, Ian Ezzard
will stay on as the Wiles Greenworld Sales and
Marketing Director, with managing director Peter
Duncan and Sustainable Development Director
Toby Robins taking on advisory roles for the next
12 months.
Diane Keatings, 20,
has been working in
DDG’s pre-sales and
implementation team and
hopes to lead her own
sales team in the future.
Commercial toners will be made at Turbon’s research and production facility in Romania.
