Pen To Paper - Spring 2020

P2P Magazine | 03 www.p2pmag.co.uk Hallmark of excellence The Stationers CompanyWarrant, first introduced in 2014, recognises and promotes excellent products and services. Products are judged according to a range of criteria, including the quality and originality of their design (innovation) and interpretation; manufacturing/production techniques, use of materials and attention to detail; presentation and packaging; environmental credentials and compliance with ethical trading guidelines; and impact, relevance and popularity within their market sector. The organisation has renewed the following warrants for 2020. Brown Fox for its range of fine stationery, Collins Debden for its leather and wool bound diaries, Manuscript Pen Company for its ML 1856 fountain pen, Gopak for its Ultralight Staging and Victor Stationery for its Rhino notebooks. www.stationers.org Celebrating the power of the pencil VENT for Change is celebrating the power of the pencil in a philanthropic partnership with National StationeryWeek. The sustainable brand will be giving away UK-made recycled pencils to every company that signs up as a participating retailer in April’s event, which this year will raise funds for children’s education projects. Each business that takes part in the campaign will be provided with a selection of pencils in five stylish colours. For a small donation, customers can choose their favourite recycled pencil with all funds raised being donated to education projects run by Plan International UK, a charity that strives to advance childrens’ rights and equality for girls all over the world. www.nationalstationeryweek.com Colourful pens made from concrete Staedtler’s Concrete Ballpoint pen is now available in two new colours, brick red and charcoal black. The pen’s individually designed concrete shaft is cast by hand at the company’s Nuremberg site, with the new colour variants created by adding special colour pigments. The other elements of the ballpoint pen – the tip, push button and clip – are made from high quality matt chrome metal. Due to its form, the Concrete Ballpoint is also comfortable to use; the barrel has six asymmetrically arranged edges, creating a hexagon, which provides users with an optimal grip. www.staedtler.com Sales success for Ryman The Theo Paphitis Retail Group has reported good performance for Ryman for the financial year to 30 March 2019, with total revenue increasing by 1.4% to £129.9m, delivering an increase in EBITDA of 6.5% to £8.2m (FY18: £7.7m). In a statement, the company said the growth reflects its focus on the introduction of new categories, development of related services and customer engagement in-store. www.ryman.co.uk Dams furniture collection Dams has launched its Furniture Guide 2020, featuring over 9,500 stocked products and over 1,500 made-to-order items. New additions to the product range for 2020 include extensions to the Maestro 25 and Contract 25 desk ranges and returns for Adapt bench desks, complemented with new accessories such as modesty panels and monitor arms, plus desktop and floor screens. Dams’ seating range has been enhanced for 2020 with the introduction of new mesh back task and operator chairs, including Sway, Travis, Arcade and Altino, and a new seating family called Tegan, as well as additional options and bench seating for the company’s Altino, Jota, Senza and Santana ranges. www.dams.com Million pound milestone Carbon Capture, an initiative launched by Premier Paper in 2008 to give businesses the choice to mitigate the CO2 emissions from the paper that they buy, has been an unmitigated success. Through Premier Paper, Carbon Capture customers mitigate the CO2 emissions from their product purchases by planting new native woodland in partnership with theWoodland Trust. As of November 2019, over 530 Premier Paper customers have fully signed up to the Carbon Capture programme, which so far has raised more than £1,000,000, all from sales of Carbon Capture paper. One hundred per cent of the funds collected from the Carbon Capture programme are paid directly to theWoodland Trust to help plant native woodland trees in the UK. To date, the programme has planted 240,000 native trees, created 150 hectares of new native British woodland and captured 60,000 tonnes of CO2. www.paper.co.uk Navigator 2020 promotion Navigator has introduced a global promotion which gives end-users who purchase a Navigator paper ream a chance to win one of 201 brand new iPhone 11s. To be in with a chance of winning, end-users simply need to locate the promotional code on the back of each ream, enter the code on the ‘Play Now’ page at www.navigator-paper. com and click spin to see if they have won. Participants who match four Navigator Cups win an iPhone, while everyone who shares the promotion will receive a credit for another go. The promotion runs until June 30 2020. www.navigator-paper.com BULLETIN