Archive for August, 2011
The UK’s largest supplier of commercial vehicle lighting systems is opening a depot in Preston to serve the North West region with a £1/2m investment, creating five jobs. Dun-Bri Group, based in Hertfordshire, is on target to open ‘Dun-Bri North’ in early September to specifically over the North of England and Scotland after acquiring a unit on Roman Way.
Dun-Bri North is a brand new operation and is the biggest investment in the company’s 30 year history. Family owned, the company has acquired the unit and has recruited five new staff under the guidance of local man Steve Garlick who has joined from Coach Parts Direct. Steve and his team will manage it’s free twice daily delivery service across central Lancashire and control stock worth over £1million. Dun-Bri Group has the largest stock range (9,000 products) in the UK and delivers over two million products every year to 2000 companies, mostly available for overnight delivery.
Andrew Strath, Sales Director at Dun-Bri Group said: “We pride ourselves on being the UK’s No.1 and by adding a depot dedicated to the North West we are showing our commitment to provide the best service in the region.”
He added: “The North West is a key target area for our company and Preston provided the perfect location for our new venture.”
For more information go to www.dun-bri.com
Dun-Bri North, 58 Roman Way Industrial Estate, Ribbleton, Preston, Lancashire PR2 5BE
Tel: 01772-651647. Email: sales-north@dun-bri.com
The UK’s oldest family-owned firm, Salts Healthcare, today officially opened its new £1/2million office and its first UK dual ostomy and orthotics clinic in Didsbury – and to celebrate the unique nature of the site it also hopes to help set local, newly qualified medical professionals on the right business track by allowing the use of these brand new facilities.
The company’s new South Manchester operation will house both a Salts Medilink stoma care office and a Salts Techstep podiatry clinic under one roof, providing the best treatment for ostomy and orthotics patients across the North West region.
Salts Healthcare is a multi-million pound business with sites throughout the UK and across the World. Through its two main divisions – ostomy and orthotics – it designs, manufactures and distributes stoma care products including colostomy bags as well as providing podiatry services, from foot assessments for injured sportspeople through to the design to the manufacture of specialist footwear for those with lower limb problems.
On the stoma side, the company already has an established network of 15 stoma care offices and clinics throughout the UK under the banner Salts Medilink. Some of which have community stoma care nurses available for personal home visits or telephone advice 24 hours a day, 363 days a year to provide free, impartial advice and support on all products.
Also, as one of the leading manufacturers and suppliers of orthopaedic footwear in the U.K, Salts Orthotic division, Salts Techstep, produces bespoke products ranges for footwear, adaptions and repairs, helmets, and hip and lower limb orthoses. It also offers a large range of insoles, both ready-made and bespoke, suitable for all types of sporting needs.
Giving a much needed boost to local medical professionals and to help to get a foot on the business ladder, the podiatry clinic facilities will be made available to newly qualified professionals to practice orthotics at a vastly reduced rent. All equipment including plinth, table and changing facilities will be available so a start-up hasn’t the need to invest in expensive equipment. Plus there’s free on-street parking.
Cheryl Simpson, Medilink Didsbury Centre Manager said: “I’m very proud that my centre is the first Salts ‘dual-clinic’ and I’m looking forward to serving the people of Didsbury, Manchester and the whole of the North West.
Commenting upon the sensitive subject of stoma care, Cheryl said: “My team and I have many, many years of experience of dealing with patients with stomas and with the Salts Medilink network we have a team available 24 hours a day, 363 days a year to offer confidential advice.”
Excited about the Salts Techstep on-site clinic Cheryl said: “We know how hard it is to get a foot in the door once you qualify and in these hard economic times starting a business is very difficult. We are passionate about podiatry and our offer is simple…we’d like to help you start out.”
Salts have another first to celebrate. Salts Medilink has also become the first stoma care dispensing firm in England to offer the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) for the NHS. Around 1.6 million paper prescriptions are issued every working day in England and about 7 out of 10 prescriptions are repeat prescriptions. To speed up and streamline the prescription service for NHS patients the new Electronic Prescription Service will enable prescribers – such as GPs and practice nurses – to safely send prescriptions electronically. Ensuring prescriptions can be acted on more quickly, avoiding postal delays and cutting out extra paperwork, it makes the whole process easier and more convenient for both patients and staff. All that is required is for the patient to fill in an initial EPS Nomination form to register with Medilink as
the nominated dispenser.
For more information on Salts call Freephone 0800 626388.
The Decathlon store in Giltbrook is calling upon locals to help people in Africa by donating their old football kits.
Decathlon has teamed up with football charity Afrikit to help make dreams come true. Despite being thousands of miles away, children and dults in Africa adore the ‘beautiful game’ and avidly follow British teams, but owning a shirt is all but a dream. With new replica kits every year and many transfers of players between clubs, strips can quickly find themselves at the bottom of the wardrobe gathering dust.
The Decathlon store at Giltbrook Retail Park, just off the A610, next to Ikea, is home to an Afrikit stand and it wants old Notts Forest and Notts County strips, Manchester United, Barcelona, in fact any club shirt would be welcomed and will find itself helping those less fortunate than ourselves. Also if supporters have socks, shorts, shinpads, boots, balls and any other football accessory they will also be sent to Africa.
Staff at the store had a kick about to announce the scheme and store manager Jeremie DeBeuf said: “This is a fantastic initiative. Many of us have old football shirts lying around, unused due to wanting the latest shirt. With the new season just around the corner, we ask those with any old replica shirts to drop them into store for a great cause.”
Please take a look at a a recent Gorkana case study about the National Lottery’s ‘Back of the Sofa’ campaign. Townhouse was one of the agencies involved in helping to generate excellent media coverage for various unclaimed prizes across the UK.
http://www.gorkanapr.com/news/article?news_articles_id=9478
Our unclaimed prize (£1million euroMillions Raffle prize) lay somewhere in Stoke-on-Trent. Over the last six months we have also been generating further media coverage to find the lucky ticket holder including recruiting a Town Crier to shout out a proclamation, Miss Staffordshire created a giant countdown calendar and Stoke Lotto winner and part-time pub singer Neil Jones sang his own special Lottery version of Europe’s ‘Final Countdown.’ Take a look at this, sometimes words aren’t enough: http://tinyurl.com/3aqx2yb
