Epson survey reveals major growth in the use of both print and electronic POS advertising as retailers look to broaden markets. In the UK, 100% of retailers polled say that they need to adapt and broaden their market focus to drive growth, finds a survey by Epson. As a result, and despite current economic pressures, [...]
For one engineering design and project management company, the Olympic Games and Diamond Jubilee weren’t the only causes for celebration during 2012. Lorien Engineering Solutions, headquartered in Burton on Trent, has just announced its highest grossing year to date in its 28-year history, and is also now serving its largest ever customer base across the [...]
Can you eat a doughnut without licking your lips or is that part of the pleasure? Forty percent of people who took part in an on-line doughnut survey, for National Doughnut Week, seem to think it is part of the pleasure when they admitted to love at first bite by taking the biggest bite they [...]
Consumers can instinctively tell the difference between fake smiles on packaging and adverts and the real thing, according to startling new research by one of Europe’s leading shopping behaviour specialists. The latest research by Staffordshire-based SBXL reveals that people can easily and subconsciously spot the difference between genuine smiles and fake smiles, and that a [...]
Enco Products, the company which supplies almost one third of all Caribbean food and drink sold in the UK*, is maintaining its 2013 NPD drive with two major product launches. The Grace Foods UK subsidiary is launching a four-strong range of Grace-branded Scotch Bonnet Hot Pepper Sauces and a range of three Dunn’s River branded [...]
Responding to manufacturers’ demands for more economical automation solutions, multi award winning packing equipment designer and manufacturer Pacepacker Services has launched a range of second user Blu-Robot pick and place systems which are typically half the cost of a new robot. Incorporating a second user robotic arm, Pacepacker’s economical Blu-Robot range comes with over 20 [...]
To mark the launch of a new revolutionary cleaning product coming to the UK, Medentech (a leading supplier of disinfectant to UK hospitals) demonstrated the huge cost and space savings people will make if they replace their liquid household bleach with Clearon Bleach Tablets. One 12cm tub (containing 36 tablets) makes up the equivalent of [...]
Vynagrip matting, manufactured by Plastic Extruders Ltd, is solving a slippery problem for the largest fish shop in Piraeus, the port of Athens in Greece. Fresh off the boats each day, large quantities of fish are delivered together with packed ice, while over counter machines continually spray water to keep the fish wet. The result [...]
Vynagrip matting, manufactured by Plastic Extruders Ltd, is solving a slipBadgemaster, the UK’s largest name badge manufacturer, gained the ISO1 14001 Environmental Accreditation on 21st February. It is the only company in the industry to have done so. Since Badgemaster started trading in 1992, directors John and Vicky Bancroft have aimed to make Badgemaster as [...]
Roll your own (RYO) smoking accessories specialist Republic Technologies (UK) Ltd has secured a major brand-building opportunity for Zig-Zag, the RYO paper brand, by becoming an official partner of Premier League Darts, Britain’s biggest indoor sporting event, and the World Darts Championship in December 2013. Televised live on Sky Sports, the four-month competition is played [...]
