ZenOffice is supporting England and
Great Britain international hockey
player and London 2012 Olympic bronze
medallist Nicola White.
Nicola has more than 100 international
caps to her name and is closely involved with
a number of charities including the British
Heart Foundation, Dame Kelly Holmes Trust and
Oldham’s One Future Olympic Legacy. Since
the Olympics, she has made 80 plus public
appearances, including awards evenings, school
visits, master classes and coaching sessions.
ZenOffice managing director Les Kerr first
met Nicola at Oldham Athletic Football Club
and was deeply impressed with her passion
and commitment to become one of the world’s
best hockey players.
“When we found out that Nicola was looking
for help to be able to lease and insure her car, I
was delighted to be able to step in and offer our
assistance,” he said.
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Almo Office wins the
ultimate prize
Almo Office’s
merchandising
director Kevin
Farrell has won
the big prize in
the pan-European
‘Image Yourself’
competition run
by Antalis to
promote its own-
brand range of
uncoated office
and business
papers.
The top prize was a six-day, expenses
paid trip including return flights to Rio de
Janiero, hotel accommodation, sightseeing
trips, a cruise across Guanabara Bay, a visit
to a local football academy and a ticket for
the World Cup final on 13 Jul
y.
Diary Date
This year, Photizo Group is holding its Transform
Europe managed print services (MPS) conference
in Prague in the Czech Republic.
Taking place on October 20-22, this is a must-attend
event for anyone interested in the state of office printing
and managed print services, including customers, resellers,
manufacturers, software vendors and consultants.
Until July 31, Photizo Group is offering Early Bird
pricing of
€
595, a saving of
€
400 on the full conference
price.
Katun expands
offering
Katun has boosted its product offering with
new Business Color toners for use in Canon
Imagerunner Advance C5045/C5051/C5250/
C5255 devices; Katun Performance Color
toners for Ricoh Aficio MP C3002/C3502
machines; Katun Performance Color toners
for HP LaserJet PRO 200 M251 series printer/
MFPs; and a Katun Performance Waste
Toner Container for the Toshiba E-Studio
2050C/2051C series.
Brother helps resellers to
capitalise on market growth
Brother has launched eight
new business colour
laser machines
which they say
will help resellers
capitalise on sales
opportunities in
the colour printer
market.
The colour laser all-in-one
market is up 30% year-on-year, as companies increasingly
look for printers that offer low total cost of ownership
rather than cheaper upfront purchase costs.
The L8000 range is for businesses that print up to
2,000 pages a month, while the L9000 range is designed
for users printing up to 5,000 pages a month. Both ranges
offer multiple connectivity options, including wireless
and NFC, and enable users to print from cloud-based
applications such as Apple AirPrint and Google Cloud Print.
The machines will be added to Brother’s MPS portal,
offering the vendor’s best ever click price and a better
total cost of ownership than the market leader, thanks to
high duty cycles and new super high yield toners.
Product manager Stuart Mabe said: “These new ranges
have enabled us to provide a much stronger cost per
page and total cost of ownership than ever before and we
believe they will be a key product in our MPS offering.”
ZenOffice sponsors
Team GB Olympic
medallist
In the news
Toshiba TEC is the official office
automation supporter of the
Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
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Kevin Farrell and
Antalis Account
Manager
Marie Challis
Event focuses on the 3rd
platform
The 3rd platform – social media, cloud, mobile and
big data – will drive more than 90% of the growth
in IT spend through to 2020, research organisation
IDC claimed last month at an event co-hosted by
Konica Minolta Business Solutions UK.
The event, designed to create dialogue about the role
of information and content management technology in
modern businesses, brought together C-level executives,
IDC analysts and business leaders from Konica Minolta.
IDC said that greater focus on regulatory compliance
and innovation was driving IT sales in Europe, with
40% of European IT executives planning to increase IT
budgets in 2014. IDC expects overall IT spend in EMEA
to rise by 3% to $654 billion in 2014.
Nicola White and Les Kerr
