Archive for May, 2008:
Recycling Information on Office Furniture
I was chatting to a friend who works for the environmental protection agency yesterday. He told me that all councils within the UK offer a recycling centre for office furniture.
This information is often found on the council web sites. It’s good practice for the council with regards to their environment and recycling targets and also good everyone else.
The Environment needs us to aid in to protect itself from landfill sites of old and unwanted home office furniture, that’s why recycling of your old leather office chairs can help us begin to achieve this.
Another simple way of recyling, is to help small start-up companies and charity shops who offer the office furniture at a fraction of the cost new. Many of the charities offer information on their web sites of local shops, which will uplift, and helps with the global environmental footprint.
I’ve got a couple of older office screens that I was going to throw out - I’ll be sure to recycle them now instead.
Marketing Agency & Digital Advertising Agency Topia Continue Winning Streak
Digital marketing agency The Topia Project have added yet more accounts to their growing portfolio of online advertising clients.
Just last month Topia was offered the digital marketing project for the launch of a new Whereis.com site, the online mapping and navigation website run by Sensis, part of Telstra and it now seems that Topia show no signs of slowing any time soon.
The new clients, the Canada Tourism Commission and Village Roadshow Films are a small sample of Topia’s recent successes in it’s bid for continued growth.
The Canada Tourism Commission granted the marketing agency with a four-year marketing and advertising services deal following a competitive pitch, in conjunction with the agency’s tourism partner Redkite.
The Topia Project stated that the Canada Tourism Commission work will “marry an innovative approach to non-traditional channels and digital activity with traditional tourism marketing. ”
Film producer and cinema developer Village Roadshow accepted Topia Project for digital projects, including the forthcoming release of Semi-Pro, starring Will Ferrell. The advertising agency has been asked to develop campaigns that “harness the online and social media landscape to engage various films’ audiences effectively”.
Roberts Radios UK
Roberts radio were established in 1932 by Harry Roberts and his associate Leslie Bidmead in London UK. In 1935 Roberts Radios were being produced in numbers exceeding 8 radios per week by the company. The radios at that time were of the suitcase design coming with a loudspeaker and inside of the lid of the radio, a frame aerial.
It was in 1937 that Roberts Radios launched the popular M4Q Roberts Radio which was a change of design and look for the company’s radio products at the time. The Roberts M4Q Radio took up considerably less space than that of its suitcase model predecessors and was comparatively much cheaper to build due to its new “compact” size. The normal price for the radios fell from 11gns to then 9gns. With the new price, growing popularity of their products and with help of the new radio range, Roberts Radio became a PLC (Private Limited Company) on 23rd April 1937.
In 1941 the company moved location to East Molesey in Surrey. London had become a dangerous place to stay and work due to the war and the bombings at the time. It was throughout the war years that the company’s founder, Harry Roberts received a telephone call from a friend of his who worked at the famous Harrods stores in London notifying him of the splendid news that Her Majesty the Queen of England had paid for a Roberts Radio for her own personal use. To his surprise this was the second Roberts radio Her Majesty had bought, the first Roberts Radio that she purchased was a gift for Princess Elizabeth.
It became evident that the Royal Warrant was no simple formality when in 1957 Harry Robert was asked to Buckingham Palace in order to take sample models of the current range of portable radios from their shop for a display to both Prince Charles and Princess Anne. An additional two Royal Warrants were given to the Roberts Radio company in both 1982 and 1985.
To this day Roberts Radio continue to build the same high class hand-made radios that they have become famous for in a new factory located in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, England, UK. Their range now includes a variety of different styles, models and types of radios including the Roberts Robi ipod DAB radio, Roberts Sound 23 Dab CD System, Roberts WM201 WiFi Internet Radio and the special edition Roberts Radio Cath Kidston Rose Limited Edition Pause Plus Radio.