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CONFERENCE PRODUCTS
LATEST NEWS FROM STABLECROFT CONFERENCE PRODUCTS
It May Be Too Late for 2012 Diaries But
You can still provide corporate gifts as portfolio and notepads. High quality notepads with pencils make an attractive incentive product.
New Customers
At the end of May 2011, Stablecroft's Conference Products customer list reached 1200! We are exporting to many countries including:
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Czeckoslovia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Lapland
- Latvia
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Spain
- USA
Conference Ribbons
If you are planning any events, don't forget that ribbons can add that extra touch. Here are some we produced recently.
Never Too Early for 2012 Diaries
It's April now, time to think about 2012 diaries - new styles, new colours.
Racing Badges
We can now produce circular cards with punched holes, overprinted for race nights, together with matching treasury tags. If you are organising race nights, please ask for a quotation.
Elections in May 2011
If you are organising Election Counts, you will find our coloured paper inserts perfect to identify each candidate's political party - we can offer a wide range of colours including pink, blue, green, yellow, lime, tangerine, apricot, lavender, grey and poppy.
Recycled and Eco Friendly Products
We have added some recycled glass coasters to our product range - ideal for Christmas events.
New Products - Suggestion Boxes and Ballot Boxes
We can now supply Ballot Boxes and Feedback Boxes for your meetings and events - these are available in Cardboard or Acrylic.
Cardboard Ballot Box
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White Acrylic Suggestion Box
We can provide a wide range of styles and sizes.
Badge Trays For Special Sized Badges In Corporate Colours
We have recently made some badge trays for Click Fold Badges which are curved and have a large clip on the back. The alligator clip is clipped into the smaller slot at the rear so that the badges can be carried safely.
We have made a lot of custom trays for 'difficult' badges which do not fit a standard tray.
Waterman Branded Pens
We have added an extensive range of branded pens to our collection - ideal as business gifts.
Halloween - Are you Ready?
This stress pumpkin is perfect for halloween! It helps put the stress back into halloween with its scary face!
The halloween pumpkin stress balls can be custom printed with your company logo and make great promotional stress balls.
The halloween pumpkin stress balls are made from PU foam and provide hours of squeezy ball fun. These stress pumpkins are just one of the many shaped stress balls that we have available. Take your stress out on one of our stress pumpkins and help relieve your tension.
Or if you prefer witches....
New Products September 2010
We had added an attractive range of signs, sign holders, lecterns, audio/visual stands and literature stands to our conference and exhibition products ranges. The signs are available as floor standing, table top or wall mounted, and there are some special purpose items such as menu holders and postcard holders.
WelcomeTo Our New Customers
Despite the credit crunch and doom and gloom about impending cuts, we are delighted to welcome 12 new customers in August and 7 so far in September - and many long established customers continue to order - we very much appreciate your on-going support.
Stablecroft Conference Products - Credit Cards
We have tried to avoid it but finally we have succombed and can accept credit card payments. We still find it a very expensive way to do business for a small company, but with increasing pressure to take company charge cards, we are now up and running and payments can be made by credit card, for most cards, but not Amex.
Welcome to Royce From Texas
Stablecroft Conference Products have supplied their first order to Texas. Yeeha Royce, many thanks for your order
Halloween Dog Walk For Charity
The Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust
How would you like to have a fun day with (or without) your dog, keep fit and help raise money for people and animals less fortunate than yourself, without it breaking the bank? The Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust are planning a series of dog walks across the country at Halloween (October 31st) in an attempt to raise much needed funds for their work which helps both the people and the animals of The Gambia who live in extreme poverty. We can provide you with posters and an advice sheet and the walks can range from a few people getting together at some one’s house and making a donation, to a much larger get together from a village hall and returning for soup and crusty bread. If you are not able to organise a walk, perhaps look out for a walk in your area that you may be able to support.
We urgently need to raise funds in order to continue our work, so please help if you can, for further details please contact Heather Armstrong, Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust
Email: gambiahorseanddonkeytrust@hotmail.com, www.gambiahorseanddonkey.org.uk
Telephone 01306 627568
Branded Pens
We have added a range of Cross branded pens to our collection - ideal for Christmas or business gifts.
Watch Out for Watches
We have added Ladies Watches to our product range - from major brands including Rotary, Raymond Weill, Tag Heuer, Sekonda, Citizen etc, as well as unbranded watches - keep checking as we add more in the coming weeks
Bags of Bags
We have added lots of new styles of conference bags, in a wide range of fabrics, including some leather attache cases - something for any occasion.
More Overseas Customers
We now have quite a number of overseas customers - we currently supply:-
Austria
Belgium
Czech Republic
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Latvia
Netherlands
Norway
Singapore
Spain
USA
While we are happy to supply these customers with direct exports from the UK, we would be happy to work with agents and distributors in any overseas destinations - just drop us an email if you would like to work with us.
Our First Customer in Greece
We would like to welcome Matina as our first customer from Greece - we have made sales in Europe but not to southern climes, mainly due to freight costs. However we have found a new courier company whose rates make shipping single items to far off destinations less jaw droppingly expensive. Hopefully Matina will spread the word on her patch and we will see more of our conference items on show in Europe and beyond.
We Pass the 800 Mark
In June 2008 we passed the 600 customer mark - we are amazed that in June 2009 we are please to welcome Bank of New York as customer number 850! If all the other 849 would like to place an order this month we would be even happier!
Custom Made Badge Trays
We have made a number of one-off metal badge trays for customers who are using unusual badges which will not fit our standard trays - these range from simple ID badges which are just too thick to fit the slots in our trays, but we have managed to make some to suit curved badges - our manufacturer groans every time we send them a special badge but so far they have managed to adapt the product no matter what we throw at them. Obviously the price for these custom trays are more than the standard ones, but given many are made in small quantities, such as less than ten trays, solving the problem of how to transport a particularly difficult badge outweighs the cost of the trays, particularly if you have a lot of stock of it!
Christmas Cards - Save Yourself a Job This Year
Too much to do and too little time - instead of sending out company Christmas cards this year, why not donate and save a little donkey from the meat trade. During 2008, we have assisted a number of donkeys to find safety in the UK, rather than face a long journey to Italy where they are slaughtered for the processed meats trade. They travel for 3-4 days, without rest, food or water, EU regulations regarding trasportation are routinely flaunted and poor horses ponies and donkeys have horrendous journeys before meeting their deaths. 100,000 a year are doomed to make these journeys of despair.
Vodka Donkey was the first to arrive in March but now there are ten donkeys at Scottish Borders Donkey Sanctuary and two donkeys at Sussex Horse Rescue Trust. It costs around £800 to save one - can you make a donation to part pay to save another little soul from slaughter.
Our own donkey, Aimee, has been taking to the local town centres to raise awareness and most importantly money - in a collection for Scottish Borders Donkey Sanctuary she raised nearly £600.00 which help save Kofi and Charlotte, two delightful donkeys.
Here is a picture of Aimee in action - if you would like to help please contact us direct or have a look on the website www.equinesection.com for further information.
Stablecroft Carbon Footprint
We continue to reduce our carbon footprint. Our efforts to install a wind turbine have stalled - the site survey did not show that the wind speed was adequate to produce a worthwhile return on investment - given how windy our Scottish hillside is in winter (and a fair bit of the summer as well) we find it hard to believe this is not a perfect location for a turbine. The only way to be sure is to install a test station which will take readings for a year and then see what the statistics say. We are mulling over the cost of this and whether we feel it is likely to produce the results we need.
In the meantime, we are progressing on another route. In the autumn we intend to plant a large amount of willow, which can be coppiced in a couple of years' time and will fuel our wood burning fire and may in time be able to fuel our wood pellet boiler.
Stablecroft Goes Greener
We are still keen to improve our carbon footprint and are hopeful that a site visit from a wind turbine engineer will confirm that our location is suitable for the installation of a turbine to generate most of the electricity we require to run the business in Scotland.
Stablecroft Welcomes Customer No 600
We are thrilled to welcome customer Number 600 in June 2008 - if only all 600 customers placed orders every month we would be even happier!
Stablecroft Conference Products Go Green
We appreciate that the nature of the conference products business does not lend itself very well to 'going green'. We have reduced our carbon footprint by, wherever possible, having our products manufactured locally, though there are still some items which we do have to import as tjhey are not available from the UK.
We can supply our delegate badge paper inserts in re-cycled paper but it does compromise the brightness of the white paper inserts, which many customers like. There is also a more restricted palette of colours for the coloured badge inserts and again the colours are not as sharp.
So we have concentrated on using 'green fuel' where possible. We have installed a wood pellet boiler which runs our central heating - this is currently supplied by 'bought in' wood pellets but as it can burn other crops, we are investigating growing some willow as a potential fuel. We also have a log burning stove for background heating and this is powered by logs grown on our very doorstep. We are contemplating a small wind turbine as our experiments with solar power have been largely unsuccessful due to the lack of sunshine in winter. We use solar power for some of our outdoor lighting for our warehouse and will continue to experiment with it to see if it is viable in other uses.
Christmas Greetings from Stablecroft
The Stablecroft team of donkeys - Ferguson and Aimee - posed very sweetly for the 2007 Christmas card - they are braving the Scottish weather though some days their preference would be to stay in their donkey domaine and not venture out into the frozen wilds.
Stablecroft in Lapland In Time for Christmas
We almost couldn't quite believe it when we received our first order for Lapland, in early December 2007. We have despatched Rudolph with his sleigh and our conference name badge carrying cases and hope he has a safe journey.
Stablecroft Christmas Offers
Finding Christmas is already getting you down - all those cards to send out - can we help? If you want mailing labels produced just ask - we already provide fully produced badges to a number of customers so can we make your life easier by taking over some of the pre Christmas tasks - get to your parties early
Stablecroft Signage
If you are organising in house events for the festive season, will you suddenly find you need signs to direct visitors to the room, bar (essential!), and other facilities. Rather than have your staff running around like crazy delivering guests to their destination, good use of signage can make your life much easier. We can provide a very attractive range of either Table Top or Floorstanding signs, which are modern and professional - just ask for further information.
Stablecroft Welcomes Customer No 500
As a small family business, we were delighted to note that in November our customer list passed the magical 500! To all our customers old and new, we would just like to say thank you for your support and much appreciated business. We don't always appreciate the extremely short lead times but we always do our best to pull white rabbits out of hats when required.
Stablecroft Badge Trays Find New Uses
While most of our conference badge trays are used at conferences and events, an increasing number of customers are using our metal badge trays to hold visitor passes in reception - the trays offer a very neat and space saving way of displaying passes, ready for use, particularly where it is impractical to wall mount a storage facility.
Stablecroft Record October
Our new website has now been found by major search engines (we hope!!) and we would like to welcome the ten new customers, from very diverse industries, who have purchased Stablecroft conference products this month.
Stablecroft Launch new Website
Stablecroft are very excited to announce the launch of our new website. We've been working on it for quite some time and today is the day we switch over.
We hope you will take time to explore the website. Since it just went live, we would also like your help and feedback. Just go to the 'Contact us' page and send us an email. Thanks to STORM for building the website and making the process so simple.
Stablecroft move Premises
We are very pleased to announce that we have moved into our new premises in Dumfries and Galloway. You can view our contact page for full address details.