Shield Health and Safety are proud to show off their 2015 Training Brochure which is now being distributed to all of its clients.
Wensum Print have done a fantasic job of producing a high quality yet bespoke solution to Shields new training brohure
Within it, are highlighted some of the new additions to Shields training portfolio for 2015, as well as an in-depth explanation of its unique loyalty system.
If you would like a 2015 brochure, then please get in contact with the team by either for or email and we will arrange delivery –
Local law firm Steeles Law, which has offices in Norwich and Diss as well as Central London, has announced a senior appointment ahead of a planned office move to refurbished offices in Diss town centre.
Ruth Pyatt is a further recruit to the solicitors’ large and well respected wills, probate and tax team. Ruth, who qualified as a Solicitor in Scotland in 2007, brings to the firm a unique specialism in cross-border matters, as well as advising locally on Wills, Inheritance Tax, estate planning and probate, Lasting Powers of Attorney and the creation and administration of trusts.
Stephen Drake, CEO at Steeles Law, commented: “2015 is proving an exciting year for Steeles. Achievement of the Investors in People Silver award – a first for law firms in Norfolk – and the further expansion of our private client teams, together with our move to more high street based premises in Diss, will allow us to present an innovative, modern and accessible face to our clients and business partners”.
Steeles Law will move from 2 Mount Street to St Nicholas House, 3 St Nicholas Street, Diss in the spring. The offices are currently undergoing extensive refurbishment and a date for the move will be announced in the coming months.
AFI KLM E&M subsidiary offers support for the entire aircraft lifecycle.
Paris, Amstelveen, Norwich – 6 March 2015 – KLM UK Engineering is pleased to have been awarded the Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association (AFRA) Accreditation for Aircraft Disassembly.
Building on the existing EASA Part 145/147 & FAA 145 Approval and the UK Environment Agency Approval, KLM UK Engineering operates a purpose built disassembly facility delivering a quality product.
Norwich based KLM UK Engineering, which is part of Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance, has over 40 year’s experience in aircraft maintenance. KLM UK Engineering operates a 5 bay heavy maintenance facility, a disassembly and recycling centre, a network of line stations and a technical training college. As such, KLM UK Engineering offers support for the entire aircraft lifecycle.
On Tuesday March 4th Investors in People (IIP) accredited Pure Resourcing Solutions (Pure) with its prestigious Silver Award, calling the firm a “rewarding and positive place to work”.
With offices in Cambridge, Chelmsford, Ipswich and Norwich, Pure is the only recruitment business in the East of England to have been awarded silver accreditation, according to the latest IIP records.
Investors in People is a management framework for high performance through people. This prestigious accreditation is recognised across the world as a mark of excellence. The IIP assessment recognised Pure as an organisation with a strong vision and purpose, operating within a “supportive” and “empowering” culture. Pure’s strengths were identified as: involving staff in planning and strategy; creating a culture of openness and trust; a strong social responsibility ethos; an openness to new ideas and continuous improvement; and the provision of a range of work-life balance solutions. These have all created a proud and committed workforce.
Gill Buchanan, Director of Pure, says: “The national IIP Silver Award means a great deal to us as it demonstrates that the relationships we have with our people enables them to build the long-term, positive relationships with our clients and candidates.
“In recent years, we have been very focused on employee engagement, which has enabled us to grow with our values at the heart of the business,” explains Lynn Walters, also a Director at Pure and a co-founder of the Best Employer initiative. She adds: “We have awarded many local organisations for their excellent engagement strategies, and it feels very rewarding to receive the IIP Silver accreditation, which tells us that our own engagement practices are very successful.”
Pure has been working with an IIP specialist from EMB Excellence Ltd (emb-x), the organisation that delivers the IIP service for central England.
Neil Farish, Head of Marketing for emb-x, says: “Pure is a strong business that is professionally managed by directors who strongly believe in the value of developing people and creating an open, honest and positive working environment.Pure is a good example of an IIP organisation in that they clearly see the business benefits of embedding key values that support future success.”
Pure is succeeding in digital staff engagement too. The firm has just won the first annual Jostle Award for its vibrant and engaging intranet, which celebrates its people, and reflects its knowledge and values. The firm’s intranet receives an enviable 80% or more engagement level each week.
For more information about Pure’s IIP Silver Award and its Jostle Award, contact Gill Buchanan on 01223 209888 or gill@prs.uk.com
Great Yarmouth based True Traders have bought local courier consolidators Diamond Logistics Norwich after being the largest customer of the company for over a year. True Traders were so impressed with the transformation of their operations after partnering with Diamond Logistics Norwich that they decided to buy the company!
Previously owned by Kevin Baker, Diamond Logistics Norwich are a Multi-Carrier Solution for parcels. It utilises national contracts with most major courier and logistics companies, which allow significantly lower rates than can be achieved individually.
True Traders is a family run online retailer that specialise in building, garden and outdoor products. Managing Director Michael Bezance explained the investment: ‘Given how Diamond Logistics Norwich have changed the way we work, and the potential within the company, once the opportunity presented itself to us it was a very easy decision to make. For True Traders to continue our rapid growth we have to compete with the big online retailers like Amazon, Tescos, B&Q etc, and Diamond Logistics Norwich has allowed us to do just that. The business has reduced our costs, while significantly increasing levels of service both for the customer and from the courier. We liked the company so much we just had to buy it!’
New Managing Director of Diamond Logistics Norwich Tom Bezance said ‘Kevin has done a great job with the company so far, but we felt that with the resources within True Traders we stood a very good chance of growing the company rapidly. The ‘MultiCarrier Solutions’ service can benefit many local small and medium sized businesses, taking away a lot of the cost and hassle of sending parcels and allowing them to spend more time growing the business. This is already a proven formula for True Traders for both UK deliveries and abroad.
Tom and experienced Business Development Manager Chris Wilson hope to see the company flourish in the future. ‘We hope to quickly increase our customer base in the Norwich and Great Yarmouth areas to begin with, we know there are plenty of businesses out there that would benefit considerably from our services.’
For 2 years now our Operations Director Francesca de Lacey has been going on about her love of reusable nappies, and her despair over the lack of information for parents about the options available.
So imagine her delight when JMS was approached by the owner of one of the UK’s biggest reusable brands – Little Lamb Nappies – to create some professional promotional videos.
Being herself a user of cloth nappies and the brand, Francesca was the perfect choice to front the productions – a first for a reusable nappy brand – and show, ‘mum-to-mum’, how they work.Covering the 3 main types (One Size Pocket, Sized Pocket and Nappy & Wrap) the films introduce the numerous benefits, look, absorbency and fit of cloth nappies.
Filming took place in our TV studio in Norwich with one day shooting presenter links and a second day capturing the antics of 6 ‘cloth bum baby’ models for the title sequences.
The short films are a great introduction to this growing market and JMS has loved working with this fantastic brand and shooting with a bunch of funny, crazy and unpredictable youngsters! (oh, and the babies too….!)
Local insurance brokers and financial planners Alan Boswell Group (ABG) have announced they will be supporting ‘Break’ as their Charity of the Year for 2015. Break, a Norfolk based charity has been providing a diverse range of specialist residential and community based services for vulnerable children, young people and families across East Anglia for over 45 years.
Alan Boswell Group have committed to sponsoring two dragons in this year’s GoGoDragons! Heritage Trail around Norwich City centre before the dragons are auctioned off for the charity and will also be taking part in Break’s other events including the Hunny Bell Cross Country and the Great Norwich Duck Race in August.
Additionally the Group will be hosting a golf day at Costessey Park for corporate guests and hoping to improve on their own performance in the annual ‘Boswell Cup’, an inter-business football tournament held at Carrow Road in May. Various raffles, cake sales and dress down days will boost the coffers in what, the Group hope, will be another bumper year in terms of charitable giving.
Director of Alan Boswell Insurance Brokers, Heath Alexander-Bew, said: “Raising money for charity is a really simple way of helping our local community whilst building team spirit. It is a classic win-win situation and we’re really pleased to be able to support Break during one of their biggest fund raising years ever.
“GoGoDragons! promises to be an incredible event and we’re really pleased to be a part of it. We’ve chosen to take part in the Heritage trail to help highlight the incredible buildings whilst building stronger links with the community.”
Martin Green, Project Manager at Break, reiterated Heath’s comments “Our charitable events always prove immensely popular, especially the Norwich Duck Race. It’s a great way for people to enjoy a day out whilst helping others at the same time.
“We’re obviously thrilled to have Alan Boswell Group commit to their fund raising events this year on behalf of Break and are looking forward to a successful partnership.”
GoGoDragons! is a Wild in Art event brought to Norwich by Break charity. You can find out more about GoGoDragons! By visiting the dedicated website or searching GoGoDragons! on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter
About Alan Boswell Group
Alan Boswell Group (ABG) is a Chartered Insurance Brokers and regional Independent Financial Planners with over 220 staff based across five locations – Norwich, Attleborough, Bury St Edmunds, Peterborough and London. Established in 1982 the company offers a wide range of insurance broking and financial services from landlords’ insurance and self-drive hire to pensions, protection and investment advice. Alan Boswell Group are proud sponsors of NCFC and look after the insurance for the Championship Club.
Swarm is really pleased to welcome Chris Reeve (Superman) who has become the newest member of the Operations team here at Swarm HQ here in Wymondham.
Chris has been involved with Swarm unofficially for over a year as he is coming to the end of his enterprise apprenticeship working with Robert Aston, the founder of Swarm. Now due to Swarm’s growth he has officially has moved over in a duel role in supporting the operations team and growing new business opportunities.
Chris Perry, Swarm’s Managing Director, said, “I am happy that Chris has joined us officially as he will be fantastic addition to the team that always go above and beyond in matching the right candidates for our employers positions.
As a Swarm apprentice, Chris Reeve really embodies the enterprising characteristics of Swarm and as such, he has already proven his ability to encourage businesses in taking on young people to support their organisations. There really is no better way to encourage businesses to take on apprentices when the person they’re talking to is an apprentice themselves.
With a name like Chris Reeve, I have very high hopes for him and I am sure that he will be dedicated to the role when he is not donning his red cape and saving the world.”
On joining the company, Chris Reeve commented, “I am delighted to officially join the Swarm Apprenticeships team. Since becoming an apprentice I’ve become extremely passionate about the brand and the direction in which the organisation is moving. I’m thoroughly looking forward to getting stuck into the role and getting to know more people in the local business community.”
Chris Reeve will be out in the business community at events so please look out for him (minus spandex) and hear his apprenticeship story. Who knows, you may just want one yourself.
It’s a pivotal year in the Ideal Home Shows more than 100 year history, with 2015 seeing the show return to Olympia for the first time since 1978. A change of venue brings a whole new set of challenges for an event of any size, not least one the scale of the Ideal Home Show. As a result, the show management team were keen to quickly assess visitor experiences and to do so, chose to partner with Zing for their 2015 spring event insights.
Zing Director, Lisa Holt said “We are thrilled to be working with award winning event organiser Media 10 on such a prestigious event in such a landmark year. Our approach incorporates our unique iPad research pods, which mean we’re able to provide daily visitor experience feedback during the show and we’ll supplement this further with post-show online research.”
Holt continued “We’ve worked with some amazing event brands since our launch in 2011 and are keen to continue to build our events portfolio. We’ve recently re-launched our website (www.zinginsights.com) to help us to demonstrate our expertise and the benefits of working with qualified research professionals.
Our very happy client base has been kind enough to spread the word about working with Zing through referral and recommendation. We know they’re happy because we conduct our own customer research which helps us to make sure that we’re delivering the best product and service possible.”
Ideal Home Show Marketing Manager, Jo Bowry said “We chose to work with Zing because of their multi-layered approach to research, which suits our need for both on site and post show surveys at the show this year. With the show in a new venue, our customer insights will be more valuable than ever before to ensure we are delivering the high level of visitor experience that the show is renowned for and we are pleased that Zing are on board to help us deliver this.’
Digital marketing agency, Bigfork have redesigned the website for the Norfolk Car Club which provides new Volkswagen cars and vans for members to drive on a pay-as-you-go basis. Norfolk Car Clubvehiclesare operated by Co-wheels – a not for profit community interest company which is establishing a network of car clubs across the UK.Norfolk Car Club is supported by Norfolk County Council, Norwich City Council, the Department of Energy and Climate Change, the Department for Transportand other partners.The aim of the club is to help:
Reduce your transport costs
Provide you with greater access to transport
Reduce your transport related carbon emissions
The new website is responsive to ensure that it can be viewed across desktops, tablets and mobiles and has an improved navigation to make it easy for customers to find their nearest Car Club car. You can see the site at www.norfolkcarclub.com
When new magazine OMG! needed a set of TV commercials to promote the launch of their weekly magazine for women, they turned to JMS to make it happen.
Being new to TV they wanted a company that could guide them through any potential pitfalls with Clearcast (the body responsible for approving commercials for broadcast) and produce a series of commercials very cost-effectively using a simple sonic ident and a strong call to action. The commercials needed to echo the brand, bring a smile to the viewers face and create a strong recall when it came to seeing the magazine in stores.
Incorporating images from the magazine and some eye-catching headlines, the 6 commercials will be playing out across the UK on a variety of terrestrial and satellite channels.
You can pick up your copy at all good newsagents Nationwide – OMG!