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Spicers completes DDC
investment
Spicer has completed a £10m investment in its DDC
operation in Smethwick to support dealers’ end-user
customer deliveries and is now in the final phase of
testing. The investment includes smaller smart box
technology, which reduces the space taken within
FedEx’s delivery vehicles and will help the wholesaler
reduce its carbon footprint and give resellers using the
facility a sustainability story to tell.
www.spicers.co.uk
Image Yourself
Business Service and Supplies Ltd is celebrating a major
win after its owner Dale Hollingdrake bagged the first
of eight 2014 FIFA World Cup tickets as part of Antalis’
Image Yourself competition. The prize includes return
flights to Rio and three nights in a four star hotel.
Hollingdrake, whose Lancaster-based, family-run company
specialises in supplying office products to professional services firms,
was selected at random from all office reseller entrants as the winner
of this month’s prize in the interactive, Europe-wide competition.
The Image Yourself campaign was launched by Antalis to support
a new drive to promote its own brand range of uncoated office and
business papers and runs until 15 June 2014. The remaining period
of the competition offers further prizes including weekly and monthly
draws to win TVs, video cameras, Ice watches and polo shirts.
There are eight trips to Brazil still to be won, including five one-
week trips for two people; two VIP trips with a ticket to one of the
football World Cup Quarter Finals; and the overall top prize of a VIP
trip to RIO and a ticket to the
2014 World Cup Final.
www.imageyourself.
partner.com
Advent Data rebrands
Exertis is the new name for the DCC SerCom group of
companies, one of Europe’s largest and fastest growing
providers of technology distribution, supply chain and
specialist services for IT, communications and home
entertainment products.
The businesses formerly operated as Advent Data, Gem,
Micro-P and MSE in the UK but following a period of rapid
expansion, the companies have been renamed Exertis Advent,
Exertis Gem, Exertis Micro-P and Exertis MSE.
www.exertisadvent.co.uk
Vasanta Group on course to
beat charity target
Vasanta Group employees are on course to beat their £10,000
fundraising target for Cancer Research UK several months ahead of
schedule. With £6,600 already raised and another £3,000 due in soon, the
business products wholesaler is confident of smashing its 2013 target.
Employees have undertaken a variety of activities so far this year, including the
Three Peaks Challenge, Great North Run, Race for Life, a VOW golf day, sponsored
waxing, a sky dive, car washing and a no-chocolate month, and continue to come
up with new ideas.
Charity champions at Vasanta’s main locations in Sheffield, Normanton and
Lutterworth are currently working on a children’s party and fancy dress day, Twelve
Days of Christmas events and Cancer Research UK’s Dryathlon in January.
This month, men will be growing moustaches, with all Movember sponsorship
going to the prostate and testicular cancer part of Cancer Research UK’s work.
In addition to these activities, selected Schneider brand pens from Vasanta will
be carrying the Cancer Research logo with a pound from every box sold in 2014
going to the charity.
Vasanta Group colleagues in Ireland are raising funds for the Irish Cancer
Society Group and have so far brought in almost half of their 5,000 Euro target.
www.vasantagroup.com
Westcoast invests in cloud computing
HP CloudAgile partner Westcoast has invested more than £1 million
in an HP Converged Cloud solution that will enable resellers to offer
reliable, cost-effective services via the cloud on a pay-per use basis.
Westcoast distributes leading IT brands to a broad range of resellers, retailers
and office products dealers. The group has turnover in excess of £1billion and
employs over 800 people in the UK and Ireland.
www.westcoast.co.uk
Balreed acquisition
Balreed Digitec (Group) Limited has completed the acquisition of
e-volution Office Services Limited.
London-based e-volution is a long-established independent dealer that
supplies and supports equipment from several manufacturers, many of which
are also supplier partners of Balreed.
Robin Stanton-Gleaves, Balreed’s Group Managing Director, said: “This is a
very exciting time for Balreed and this acquisition is a significant development
in the growth plans the business has to expand the London operations.”
www.balreed.com