News
Christie's Charity
Following the sale of old PCs, Granby is pleased to announce that £200 has been raised and donated to Christie's. Christie's is our selected charity for 2008. Many thanks go to James and the I.T. team for sorting this out.
Contract Packing Expands With Rob Peters
The Client Services Team are pleased to announce the appointment of Rob Peters as a Business Development Manager. Rob has worked within the packing industry for the past 15 years and has been involved with the selling and commissioning of packaging equipment. His preferred technical areas are the flow wrapping and shrink wrapping markets. Sales and Marketing Director Stewart Oxley stated:
"Rob Peters has settled well into the team and has already begun to generate a number of enquiries in relation to our increased focus on co-packing activity so the future continues to look promising in all of the areas we are currently promoting".
Left:Rob Peters pictured at the International Direct Marketing Fair 08
NCOF - National Conference on Operations Fulfilment
Members of staff from the GMS Sales Team have recently been to exhibit at the NCOF in America. All exhibitors were responsible for key areas of operations, fulfilment and logistics. The GMS Sales Team is currently following up around twenty leads from the U.S. trip.
The Granby exhibitors: Nick Costello (Business Development Manager) and Stewart Oxley (Sales and Marketing Director).
International Direct Marketing Fair
The Granby Team is to make an appearance at the upcoming IDMF event. The event is held at Earls Court 2, London from the 29th of April to the 1st of May 2008.
Virgin Trains Testimonial
A Spokesman from Virgin stated:
"We chose Granby as our response handling partner as there ability to handle consumer responses is second to none. Their true professionalism and flexibility was just what we were looking for to handle our 'This one's on us' campaign. They can definitely be relied upon to deliver an excellent service!"
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Sports and Social
On the 26th of March, Granby is inviting staff to take part in a Grand Prix at Prestige Go-Karting in Colne, Lancashire. Each driver will take part in five heats whereby points are awarded. After the heat stages every driver will take part in a 6 lap semi-final. Once the semi-final has taken placed and the points have been counted, the top five drivers will battle it out in the final showdown. Good luck to all the drivers! For further Information please contact the HR department.
Course Details:
Well done to Ian Hill for passing the following CIMA exams:
- The Fundamentals of Financial Accounting.
- The Fundamentals of Business Mathematics.
Well done to Del and Phil (pictured above) for completing their recent courses. Senior Account Manager Delyth Evans completed her level 3 award in first line management. Sales Executive Philip Newton also completed his course in Time and Priority Management. Both courses were undertaken at the East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce in Accrington. Del Said:
"I really enjoyed the course and fully recommend the Chamber of Commerce to anyone who is looking to develop their attributes"
Phil added,
"The facilities are great and the course leader made the experience fun and interactive. I shall be returning very soon for a course in successful selling"
Employee of the Quarter:
Congratulations to Dave Eastham who has won employee of the quarter for October, November and December 2007. Dave was selected due to his hard work, time, effort and commitment to Granby.
Granby Appoint Costello
Granby Marketing Services are pleased to announce the appointment of Nick Costello to the team. Nick (pictured) has over 10 years experience in the industry and has recently worked on campaigns for many highly recognised brands.
He will officially begin to take up his position of Business Development Manager on February the 25th. Sales and Marketing Director Stewart Oxley stated:
'Nick will provide valuable additional resources on the new business and development front'.
Nick will work with Stewart at Granby's Stansted Office.
Company Charity 2008
Well done to all Granby employees who took part in the Easter Egg raffle. In all we helped raise £108 for Christie's - our chosen charity for 2008.
New Business Win Sees Granby Tackling Childhood Obesity
Granby Marketing Services are pleased to announce a new partnership with MEND.
The MEND Programme is a fun, effective and practical lifestyle solution focused on families with overweight or obese children and will be working with MEND to manage stock and collate and distribute kits to co-ordinators across the UK.
Gil Bailey, Deputy Portfolio Manager at MEND said - "We're very much looking forward to working with Granby. Their experience and can do ethos really fits well with us and I have no doubt that their Scope platform will enable us to manage our stock in a more efficient way. It's great that we've found a partner that can continue to work with us as the MEND Programme grows."
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Course Details:
Well done to Ian Hill for passing his first CIMA exam on Monday the 11th of February 2008 - The Fundamentals of Management Accounting.
Congratulations to Mary Sumner, who has completed and passed her NVQ level 3 in Business Administration.
Company Charity 2008
The chosen company charity for 2008 is Christie's Hospital Appeal. The proceeds of any fundraising will be donated to Christie's.
All the money which would usually have been spent on Christmas cards for clients, has been passed on to Christie's. All Granby clients will receive a Christmas email instead of a card.
With many thanks to all employees who put their suggestions forward.
Tales From The Frontline
Granby Marketing Services Managing Director Stephen Bentley talks to the Telegraph about the recent Postal Strikes
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Course Details:
Ian Hill will be commencing his studies with CIMA(Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) in Jan 2008 (www.cimaglobal.com).
The Following employees have been signed up for training programmes in the near future:
Delyth Evans - Level 3 award in First Line Management
Philip Newton - Selling and Time Management
Marie Riley - ISP Certificate
Yvette Jameson, Alan Witchell and Linda Saunders have completed their St.John Ambulance training which took place from Monday the 14th of January until Thursday the 17th of January. The official granby first aiders are:
Brian Fort
Julie Gallagher
Yvette Jameson
Alan Witchell
and Linda Saunders
(www.sja.org.uk)
We are pleased to announce that Stewart Houghton commenced employment with Granby on Wednesday the 23rd of January as Maintenance.
Charity Event
A big thank you to everyone who joined in with the fancy hat day held in November 2007.
We raised £100 which was donated to Children in Need (www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey)
Employee of the Quarter:
Congratulations to Kath Sumner, who won employee of the quarter for July, August and September 2007. Kath was selected due to her hard work in the Small Volumes Unit.
Granby Marketing Services Opens Stansted Office As Part Of Expansion Plans
Granby continues its expansion with the opening of its first regional sales office at on the Hertfordshire / Essex border. The office will be headed up by the recently appointed Sales Marketing Director, Stewart Oxley, and marks the first phases of a new sustainable business model that will bolster the company's annual turnover by at least 10% over the course of 2008.
The new office will focus on developing new client acquisition activity and will serve as an important regional hub for the company. The Stansted office was strategically chosen for its excellent transportation links and its close proximity to other major business centres.
Stewart Oxley, Sales and Marketing Director at
To contact us in relation to our November 'special
rates' or with any comments or enquiries please email soxley@granbymarketing.com.
Sainsburys Active Kids
Following another successful year for Active Kids, Sainsbury's have contracted Granby for the 2008 cycle. This is Granby's 3rd successive year of managing the logistics that support the activity.The following services are utilised:
Database Management
Collation & Distribution
Helpline Support
Rob Crumbie (Head of Active Kids) believes that the relationship between Sainsbury's & Granby is continuing to develop. Year after year lessons have been learnt with further improvements being put into place. Hopefully, schools, guides & scout groups will continue to have a fantastic experience when participating with the Active Kids scheme.
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Congratulations to the following employees for successful completion of the below educational courses:
Hassan Karolia - Level 2 NVQ in ITQ
Ann Marie Richardson - Level 2 NVQ in Business Administration
Kath Sumner - Level 2 NVQ in Team Leading.
Congratulations to Delyth Evans for completing the ISP Diploma and Hannah Platts for completing the ISP Certificate.
Congratulations to Paul Albin, who won employee of the quarter for April, May and June 2007. Paul was chosen due to his hard work in the Packing and Production areas.
Key Senior Appointment
Granby is pleased to announce the strategic appointment of Stewart Oxley the former Sales Director at Diss Promotional Services.
This is the first phase towards the vision to expand the business under the implementation of a sustainable business plan. Bringing in a range of attributes, earned over 11 years within the industry at PROLOG, GFM and as the new business and client service director at Diss for the last four years., Stewart takes up a new role as Sales & Marketing Director with a remit to develop the new client acquisition activity, and raise the profile of the business.
Stewart said: "
Granby joins the BCMPA
Granby has joined the British Contract Manufacturers and Packers Association (BCMPA). Established in 2001, the BCMPA now boasts over 85 members who provide a spectrum of contract manufacturing and packing services to the growing number of FMCG companies that are now choosing to outsource these functions. Granby’s expertise in quality controlled high volume collation, packing and distribution has been utilised for several years by clients including Kimberly-Clark and Unilever.
Membership of the BCMPA will give Granby the opportunity to promote our services to a wider customer base, whilst providing prospective clients with the re-assurance that we meet the professional standards required of members.
Welcoming Granby to the BCMPA, Chief Executive Rodney Steel said “We are delighted to have Granby on board as a new member. They passed our accreditation with flying colours, clearly demonstrating their ability to provide an excellent secondary packing service to the sector.”
National Curriculum Tests successfully delivered for National Assessment Authority
For a third successive year under the current contract, Granby has completed the massive Key Stage Test collation and distribution project on time and to the highest level of accuracy ever achieved. With over 30 million individual sheets received from the printers, around 1.7 million bespoke packs were produced for 24,000 schools throughout the UK under stringent security within a mere 5 weeks. Demanding meticulous quality control and the most exacting production planning, the exercise was completed to a staggering 99.9% accuracy level.
Granby wins European Parliament contract
Granby has been awarded a 4 year contract by the UK Office of the European Parliament to handle the storage and distribution of European Parliament publications, promotional items and exhibition stands and materials. With a sizeable storage requirement and a highly variable collection of stock items to manage, we are also providing a bespoke web order portal for easy direct order placement by authorised European Parliament officers and a complete on-line suite of real time reports which has been welcomed in London and Brussels alike.
Daniel Ractliffe, Head of Public Affairs, UK Office of the European Parliament, commented: “Working with a partner such as Granby who is developing a reputation in public sector, high volume response handling, is an exciting prospect and one which I’m confident will be valuable to the work undertaken by our UK Office.”
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