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Green Office Week Calls on UK Businesses to Champion the Environment

Office workers are urging businesses across the UK to help support their environmental efforts as part of Avery Green Office Week, May 13^th-17^th.

A OnePoll survey of 1,000 office workers, commissioned as part of Green Office Week, has revealed that over eighty percent of individuals in the UK would like to see the businesses they work for do more for the environment. 

Despite the increasing importance for companies and organisations to adopt green policies, forty percent of office workers would still not rate their company as environmentally-friendly and less than thirty percent feel they are encouraged to implement green practices at work.

Two of the biggest factors holding businesses back are not having anyone specifically allocated to environmental issues (34%) and a lack of specialist green facilities and equipment (33%). Being too busy and lacking the time to be green was also a common complaint with nearly twenty percent of individuals highlighting that it has an impact on their environmental efforts. Despite this, over sixty percent said they would be happier if their workplace was seen to be more environmentally-friendly.

The survey also revealed that small businesses are lagging behind larger organisations when it comes to encouraging green practices. Individuals working at companies with more than 250 employees say they are twice as likely (40%) to be encouraged to be green at work than employees at smaller companies (21%), this is despite the cost-saving and efficiency benefits on offer to businesses adopting greener working practices.

 

Getting the Green Habit

 May 13th – 17th sees the fifth ever Avery Green Office Week, championing environmentally-friendly practices in the workplace. With individuals admitting to a host of green bugbears at work, including needlessly throwing away paper (41%), printing things that do not need to be printed (39%) and leaving electrical devices on standby (22%), Green Office Week aims to encourage and empower individuals across the UK to make small, practical changes to their daily work routine.

Gregg Corbett, Marketing Director at Avery, said: “We’re nearly four times more likely to consider ourselves greener at home than we are at work. This is largely due to the fact that we don’t feel we can make a big enough difference at work, where we often lack the right equipment and encouragement. Green Office Week sets out to change this by demonstrating the power of working together, highlighting the key issues that we can all look to address to make our workplaces more sustainable.”

Green Office Week provides tips and inspiration encouraging office individuals to think about the steps they can take towards creating a more sustainable working environment. The week also highlights some of the innovative solutions that can help us all to be greener at work, such as Avery Recycled Labels and Recycled Dividers, the Avery DTR Eco desktop accessory range and unique BlockOUT™ Labels that allow files, envelopes, and packaging to be re-used rather than thrown away. With most of these products part of the Avery Rewards promotion too, there’s never been a better time to be green!

To find out more and to get involved with Green Office Week 2013, simply register at greenofficeweek.eu or follow @greenofficeweek on Twitter.

 

The top green bugbears

1. Throwing away paper

2. Not putting recycling in the recycling bin

3. Throwing away food packaging

4. Printing out things that don't need to be

5. Leaving the computer switched on overnight

6. Leaving electronic devices on standby

7. Not turning off the lights

8. Not printing double sided

9. Boiling a full kettle

10. Leaving things on charge all day

11. Using plastic cups

12. Not reusing envelopes and parcels

13. Using non-environmentally-friendly products

14. Throwing out printer cartridges

15. Traveling by car too much

 

Which of the above do you see happening at your work place?  

Feel free to leave your comments and questions below

 

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Office Workers’ Green Efforts Being Frustrated by Colleagues says Avery

Study shows that ‘working together’ and ‘leading by example’ are key factors in improving green practices at work  

Over half of office workers in the UK feel that their efforts to be environmentally-friendly can sometimes be let down by colleagues, a national study has found.  

A OnePoll survey of 1,000 office workers, commissioned as part of Avery Green Office Week, revealed that fifty-five percent of people say they work with colleagues who either disregard green working practices or are deliberately wasteful.  Forgetting to recycle, needlessly throwing away paper and leaving computers switched on overnight are just some of the top green bugbears identified by workers. 

May 13th – 17th sees Avery launch the fifth Green Office Week, with the study highlighting the importance of tackling such issues by collectively working together to champion greener ways of working. Forty percent of office workers say they are more likely to be environmentally-friendly in the office if they are surrounded by colleagues who are passionate about green issues. Green Office Week aims to build on this and unite office workers across the country, empowering them to take simple, practical steps to help make workplaces more sustainable. 

‘Leading by Example’ Key to a Greener Office

The study found that how individuals encourage green behaviour is crucial in affecting how likely work colleagues are to respond to change in a positive way. Forty-four percent of workers say that colleagues who promote green practices can have a tendency to make them feel guilty, with forty percent of those saying that this tactic can get ‘annoying.’ Instead of making individuals feel guilty when they forget to recycle or turn off the lights, sixty percent of office workers say that a far better way to encourage others to be green is to lead by example – stating that actions speak louder than words. Other positive strategies identified include helping people to understand the cost benefits of reducing waste and making green behaviour part of everyone’s job descriptions. 

Green Office Week 2013 comes at a time when, despite the global economic uncertainty, only 12% of office workers feel that the environment is now less of a priority for their business, with 42% stating the financial crisis has actually increased the need for their workplace to be greener and more resource efficient. 66% of office workers also say they are more likely to purchase a product if it is environmentally-friendly, with 61% saying they would feel happier if their workplace was seen to be more environmentally-friendly. 

Here to help, Green Office Week provides tips and inspiration encouraging office workers to think about the small, positive steps they can make towards creating a more sustainable working environment. The week also highlights some of the innovative solutions that can help us all to be greener at work, such as Avery Recycled Labels and Recycled Dividers, the Avery DTR Eco desktop accessory range and unique BlockOUT™ Labels that allow files, envelopes, and packaging to be re-used rather than thrown away. With most of these products part of the Avery Rewards promotion too, there’s never been a better time to be green! 

To find out more and to get involved with Green Office Week 2013, simply register at greenofficeweek.eu or visit the Green Office Week twitter feed @greenofficeweek.

 

  

 

 

Notes to editors

 

Green Office Week aims to empower workers across the UK to change their office practices for the better, helping them to find greener ways of working.  Taking place on May 13-17^th 2013, the week aims to unite offices around the country, raising awareness of the issues and offering practical help and advice to office workers looking to make a difference.  For more information, log onto www.greenofficeweek.eu.  

 

Avery Dennison Office and Consumer Products markets products under the well-known Avery brand name and is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of self-adhesive labels and paper products for laser, inkjet and multifunction printers, labelling software, index dividers and a wide range of other products for both consumer and commercial markets.  Avery Dennison Office and Consumer Products Europe, a business unit of Avery Dennison Corporation, has manufacturing operations in UK and Germany and sales and marketing offices in more than ten countries across Europe.  For more information about Avery products, consumers can visit www.avery.eu. Avery and all other Avery brands and product names are trademarks of Avery Dennison Corporation.

 

 

 

 

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Avery Rewards Says Thank You to PAs and Office Workers

Recent research from Avery Rewards unveiled that nearly half of UK office workers haven’t had a thank you from the boss in over a year. But it seems it’s not just a thank you that’s missing in UK offices today. Beyond simply saying ‘thanks’ there are some other little things that bosses can do to address the nation’s sometimes undervalued office workers. The study shows that when it comes to feeling more appreciated in the office, workers cite flexibility with working hours, a bit more honesty and the odd cup of tea as some of the biggest factors that can really make them happier. And there’s a strong incentive for bosses to be more appreciative too - when feeling underappreciated, office workers say that the most common response is to start caring less about their work, with a fifth of office workers going as far as refreshing their C.V. to get them through.

There are some tough cookies out there though, with one in four hardy workers saying they will put maximum effort into their work regardless of how unhappy or underappreciated they feel.  But the bigger picture is one where just a third of people find their job rewarding, and one in four people have to treat themselves at least once a week in order to cheer themselves up from work.

These alarming revelations mean it might be time for the UK’s office workers to take a moment to reward themselves for a job well done! With Avery Rewards it’s easier than ever to treat yourself once in a while, with e-vouchers that can be instantly redeemed at M&S, Boots, New Look and even on some fantastic Red Letter Day experiences. Simply purchase packs of Avery products from your usual stationery supplier, look inside promotional packs for your unique code, register online and start thanking yourself for all your hard work! Sign up and start treating yourself at www.averyrewards.co.uk.

What would make you feel more appreciated in the office? Here are the top ten thing office workers say they appreciate most…

1.            Complimenting their work

2.            A Christmas bonus

3.            More flexibility with hours

4.            More honesty from people

5.            Being made a cup of tea once in a while

6.            More appreciation of how hard it is balancing work and family commitments

7.            More understanding when they have appointments

8.            Colleagues remembering birthdays

9.            Teambuilding exercises

10.          More work socials

 

 Which of these would you appreciate and which would rank #1 on your list?

 

 

 

Notes to editors

Avery Office Products markets products under the well-known Avery brand name and is the leading manufacturer of self-adhesive labels and paper products, labelling software, office accessories, trimmers, guillotines, index dividers and a wide range of other products for both consumer and industrial markets.  Avery Office Products Europe, a business unit of Avery Dennison Corporation, has manufacturing operations in UK, Germany and Italy and sales and marketing offices in more than ten countries across Europe.

 

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Have a Rewarding Christmas with Avery

From trimming the tree to munching mince pies, everyone has their favourite thing about Christmas time, but there’s one thing we all love and that’s treating ourselves and our loved ones to something special. This year Avery Rewards has the perfect present for everyone inside promotional packs of Avery products. There’s no need to write a letter to Santa either, all you need to do is simply purchase Avery products from your stationery supplier in the usual way and look out for your unique code inside the pack.

Once you have your code, simply register online at www.averyrewards.co.uk and you can start spending right away with instantly redeemable vouchers for some of Britain’s best love brands. So whether you use your vouchers to reward yourself or spend them on Christmas gifts for friends and family, there’s something to keep everyone happy. 

Thanks to Avery Rewards you’ll even be able to get those hard-to-buy-for friends and family something great too. From the latest film and music releases at HMV, to clothing, jewellery and accessories from New Look or Marks & Spencer, gorgeous gift sets from Boots, right through to some amazing Red Letter Day experiences, Avery Rewards has Christmas all wrapped up.

And, as an added festive bonus, when you register online at www.averyrewards.co.uk Avery will automatically enter you into their exciting quarterly prize draw. 

So what are you waiting for? You’ll find Avery Rewards codes in a wide range of Avery products to help you at Christmas from Address Labels and Mini Return Address Labels to Opaque BlockOUT™ Parcel Labels. Plus you can create beautiful bespoke Christmas labels by using the image gallery on Avery's Design & Print Online software. Stock up on your supplies for the year ahead and have a great Christmas with Avery Rewards.

 

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Busy Lives Beautifully Organised - Martha Stewart style

Courtesy of Avery

Juggling work and home priorities in our increasingly busy lives means we have to be super-organised. But this doesn’t mean we can’t also be super-stylish.

There is a new, beautiful way to organise how we live and work today. American lifestyle expert Martha Stewart has just launched an elegant new collection of home office products here in the UK, developed with Avery and sold exclusively at Staples. Martha’s fabulous new range brings harmony to our busy lives and styles us for success.

The new collection finds a way to beautifully organise even the most cluttered areas—from stackable desk products designed to create space to beautiful filing solutions that bring order to work or home documents. The whole Martha Stewart Home Office™ with Avery™ range is finished in colours and tones that bring perfect harmony to your work and living spaces. Soft blue hues and warm chocolate browns combine to add a touch of sophistication to a space that is distinctly yours. 

Featuring over 130 different items, the Martha Stewart Home Office range is designed to be mixed and matched to suit your lifestyle. From textured shagreen-style journals to stylish and practical labels and tags for the home, the range includes: 

Stack+Fit™ Desk Accessories: Every piece in this beautiful collection of stackable trays, boxes, magazine files, drawers, organisers and desktop holders is designed to fit seamlessly together to suit your specific needs. Prices range from £3.59 to £14.99.

Journals: A distinctive collection of beautiful journals and notebooks that make a statement and help you to organise all your hobbies, projects and interests. Prices range from £2.99 to £14.99.

Accordion Files: Organisation is within easy reach with these smart accordion files that expand and stand freely, perfect for reducing clutter and storing all of your documents. Priced at £12.99.

Planning Binders: Customise your binders with versatile accessories such as dividers, sheet protectors and zipper pouches to plan home projects or to keep track of family to-do lists. Prices range from £2.99 to £12.99.

Kitchen Organisation: From supermarket vouchers to recipe cards, from family to-do lists to take away menus, these adhesive pockets help remove clutter from your kitchen countertops and drawers. Prices range from £4.49 to £9.99.

Kitchen Planners: Avoid dinnertime chaos with durable, clever and versatile kitchen organisation items such as dry erase weekly planners, innovative removable kitchen labels and chalkboard labels. Prices range from £2.99 to £7.99.

Labels, Tabs & Tags: There’s a label for everything in the Martha Stewart Home Office range, from waterproof outdoor labels to special textured labels. You’ll also find decorative sticky notes, tabs and tags. Prices range from £1.99 to £4.99.

Speaking about the inspiration for the new range, Martha Stewart said: “Today’s hard-working business people and families deserve both style and practicality. Working closely with Staples and Avery, I wanted to create a range of organising solutions with lasting appeal, where every item is as practical as it is beautiful and could be proudly displayed anywhere in the home. 

For a growing number of entrepreneurs and individuals, the home office is the hub of the household. This new range is all about helping us to be beautifully organised so we can successfully balance work and life commitments. 

Each item makes it easy for us to impose order on our busy and often chaotic everyday lives. But when the items are used in a collective way the range really comes into its own, with over 130 coordinated items that combine to make the very best use of design and space in the home.” 

The Martha Stewart Home Office™ with Avery™ range is available exclusively at Staples stores across the UK and online at Staples.co.uk.

 

About Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. (NYSE: MSO) is a diversified media and merchandising company, inspiring and engaging consumers with unique lifestyle content and distinctive products. It reaches approximately 66 million consumers across all media platforms each month and has a growing retail presence with 8,500 products in thousands of retail locations. MSLO is comprised of three business segments: Publishing, Broadcasting and Merchandising. The Publishing segment encompasses four magazine brands—Martha Stewart Living, Martha Stewart Weddings, Everyday Food and Whole Living—special issues, books, digital properties and apps. The Broadcasting segment is comprised of original television programming, including “Martha Stewart’s Cooking School,” debuting in Fall 2012 on America’s PBS network, video and Martha Stewart Living Radio on SIRIUS XM Channel 110. In addition, MSLO designs high-quality Martha Stewart products in a range of lifestyle categories available through select retailers, including The Home Depot, Macy’s, Staples (together with Avery), PetSmart, Michaels, and Jo-Ann Fabric & Craft Stores. In December 2011, the Company entered into a strategic alliance with J.C. Penney Company, Inc., which includes a merchandising agreement to build distinct Martha Stewart stores in jcpenney department stores, and to jointly develop an e-commerce site, both of which are expected to launch in 2013. The MSLO family of brands also includes Chef Emeril Lagasse and his media and merchandising properties. For additional information about MSLO, visit www.marthastewart.com.

 

UK Workers Leave the Environment on their Doorsteps

Brits’ 'green' efforts go out of the window the moment they leave home and set off for work, it emerged yesterday.

A study carried out among 1,000 working adults found that, while we are generally green at home, happily recycling as much as we can and conserving energy, when we get to work we are likely to bin unused printer paper, chuck away food wrappers and drinks cartons and even leave windows open with the heating still on.

Nearly a quarter of workers print things out when they don’t need to and four out of ten forget to use their company recycling bin. This was compared to eight out of ten who separate recyclable goods from non-recyclables when at home. In fact, twice as many UK workers believe they are greener at home than they are at work despite most people wishing they were otherwise.

The research was commissioned by Avery as part of Green Office Week, taking place May 14^th- 18th.

Green Office Week’s Gregg Corbett said: “With nearly half of office workers feeling that their companies do not take their environmental responsibilities seriously enough, it’s not surprising that we feel as though we can’t make as big a difference at work as we can at home.”

“Green Office Week aims to change all this, empowering workers across the UK to make small, practical changes to the ways in which they work.”

“We spend a third of our lives at work and more than half of UK workers feel they would be noticeably happier and more positive at work if it was easier for them to be more environmentally friendly. With this in mind, there’s never been a better time for change.”

Eight out of ten Brits said they were disappointed that their company didn’t lead the way with more green initiatives, with one in ten claiming they had even been actively discouraged from recycling at work by their employer. In fact, despite a quarter of UK workers saying that they would feel less loyal to a company that doesn’t want to be green, 41% of workers said they had previously found themselves in an awkward situation with their boss in the past simply for trying to implement green practices at work.

It’s no surprise then that 40% say they would avoid suggesting greener working initiatives because they wouldn’t want to be seen as ‘nagging’ or as a ‘tree hugger’, which could reflect badly on their career prospects.

Bigger organisations with more than 250 staff and very small companies were more likely to implement green strategies while mid-sized companies were the worst offenders and more likely to consider being green as something that comes at too high a price.

Gregg Corbett said: “These findings demonstrate that many UK companies still think that they don’t have the time or finances to implement greener working practices into how they operate. This is despite evidence demonstrating that being green can bring real cost-saving benefits to companies.”

“I would urge workers from across the UK to take part in Green Office Week this May. Working together we can find better ways to work that will benefit the environment, our companies and our own productivity and happiness.”

THE ECO SIN-BIN: THE TOP 10 NON-GREEN THINGS WE DO AT WORK

1. Chucking away paper rather than recycling it
2. Not having a recycling bin
3. Throwing away food packaging
4. Throwing away cans and cartons
5. Not printing double-sided
6. Leaving things on standby
7. Using non-environmentally-friendly products
8. Forgetting to turn off the lights when leaving the office
9. Leaving the heating on and opening windows
10. Not reusing envelopes or jiffy bags

To find out more and to get involved with Green Office Week 2012, simply register at greenofficeweek.eu or visit the Green Office Week Facebook page.

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Join the The Green League and Win Prizes for your Green efforts

Green Office Week 2012 (14 -18 May) is set to be bigger, better and more exciting than ever before. This year you can have lots of fun taking part in Avery’s newly launched Green League, where you can collect points and win prizes for your green efforts.

Sign up now to check out all the fun tasks to make your office more environmentally friendly and test your green knowledge. There’s even a junk modelling challenge to use up things you’d normally say goodbye to, as well as points for spreading green advice, answering quiz questions and uploading details of your own Green Office Week activities.

So why not get the whole office involved for a bit of friendly competition?

You’ll get your first 50 points if you simply register now for the Green League and show your support for Green Office Week 2012....

..And, from there you could be well on your way to winning a range of prizes, including a very special top prize designed by Dragon’s Den winner and junk modeller-extraordinaire Max McMurdo.

You can start scoring points in the Green League right now through until 18th May 2012 – so what are you waiting for? Visit the Green League UK to sign up and kick start the environmental efforts in your office.

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Being Green is Key to a Happy Working PA Life

More than half of the UK’s office workers feel they would be happier and more positive at work if the companies they work for were more supportive of their efforts to be green, a national survey has found.

Commissioned as part of Avery Green Office Week, the new research demonstrates that companies who take their environmental responsibilities seriously are far more likely to benefit from a productive, happy and motivated workforce.

Despite the clear link between being green and being happy, 41% of office workers said they had previously found themselves in an awkward situation with their bosses in the past simply for trying to positively implement green practices at work.

A further 40% say they would avoid suggesting greener working initiatives because they wouldn’t want to be seen as ‘nagging’, which could reflect badly on their career prospects.

The importance of companies supporting their employees’ environmental efforts doesn’t stop there. One in ten office workers go as far as stating they would look for another job if they felt their company’s environmental efforts were not being taken seriously enough.

A staggering 60% of office workers say they are influenced on whether to apply for a job or not by a company’s environmental credentials, meaning companies who don’t take the environment seriously enough may be missing out on top working talent.

Time for Change 

Determined to champion office workers and empower them to find a better way to work, Avery Green Office Week 2012 (May 14^th-18^th) will unite workers across the country in an effort to support their environmental efforts. Bigger and better than ever before, the week will feature a unique Green League with points and prizes for the greenest office workers, a junk modelling competition featuring a Dragon’s Den winner and lots more besides. 

To find out more and to get involved with Avery Green Office Week 2012, click here to register at or visit Green Office Week on Facebook

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Escape from the office with Avery Rewards

Do you often work late and right through your lunch break? Do you check your emails before you're even awake in the morning and last thing before going to bed at night? Ever feel like you just cannot detach from your work? If the answer is yes, well you’re not alone. New research carried out by Avery Office & Consumer Products has revealed that the UK is a nation of workaholics, with nearly half of us worrying about work in our spare time and almost two thirds working at times when we feel we shouldn’t have to.

The research, which was commissioned to support the launch of the Avery Rewards promotion, found that the average UK worker spends 1 hour 13 minutes working outside of their contracted hours every single day – that’s more than half a day a week, or 24 extra days a year! Indeed, more than a tenth of UK office workers feel they have to be constantly available to their boss and 18% say work is often their first waking thought, while a fifth claim to check their emails before they even get out of bed. It seems that respite isn’t easily gained away from the office either with nearly half of us finding it hard not to think about work during our free time, and over a quarter of us making work to-do lists or presentations while at home. 

Such staggering statistics reveal  that most of us need to take time out to treat ourselves and escape from the office, luckily Avery Rewards is here to help busy office workers do just that. Throughout 2012 Avery will be rewarding workers with instantly redeemable vouchers for some of the nation’s best loved brands. All you have to do is simply purchase Avery products in the usual way, find your unique code inside the pack and log on to www.averyrewards.co.uk  to start treating yourself. You can even store your codes up and splash out on something special.

Whether you choose to escape with a Red Letter experience, a new outfit from New Look, the latest music and film releases from HMV or a treat from Boots or Marks & Spencer, Avery Rewards is designed to remind hard working office staff that they deserve a little treat. Alternatively office workers can choose to use their codes to make donations to one of Avery’s chosen charities. 

And that’s not all! By registering your codes on www.averyrewards.co.uk you will automatically be entered into Avery’s exciting quarterly prize draw. This quarter you could win a designer handbag and shoes worth over £1,500.

If it’s time you treated yourself to a little escapism, log on to www.averyrewards.co.uk for more details. 

 

 

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Avery's new All-in-One range, the future of desk organisation

Desks are not always the tidiest, most stylish or organised of places but all that’s about to change. Avery has just launched the next generation in desktop accessories, designed to change your office space, forever. 

The new Avery All-in-One range combines stunning design with cutting-edge features and functionality, offering you a totally unique way to keep your desk tidy, organised and super-stylish. The revolutionary new range cleverly and beautifully saves on space by combining all your desk items into a single storage solution, making pen holders, magazine racks and letter trays a thing of the past and you the envy of your colleagues. 

The All-in-One range’s intelligent features include lots of discreet storage spaces for you to discover, holding your letters, envelopes, CDs, notepads, pens, mobile phones, keys, paperclips and much more besides. These hidden spaces are also perfect for keeping your valuables hidden away, leaving colleagues wondering exactly where all your items are being kept. 

As you’d expect from Avery, the range is built to be long-lasting, robust and is fully recyclable, offering exceptional value and performance compared to traditional space-wasting ways of organising your desk. Innovative features like rubberised feet for stability, expandable file holders and moveable pen-pots that double up as phone holders mean that every product in the range will surprise you with its versatility and ability to accommodate all your desk items. 

The range offers three unique product solutions to suit you, whatever your desk requirements. The standard All-in-One Desktop Organiser is perfect if you’re looking for a simple yet stylish solution to getting to grips with storing your items, with the All-in-One Pro Desktop Organiser taking it up a level and offering you even more features, such as additional letter trays and desk tidy drawers. If you’re after the very height in design, style and functionality, then the top-of-the-range All-in-One Exec Desktop Organiser is the perfect choice for the ultra-modern office of tomorrow.  

 

Who at your office, do you think needs one of these? 

Leave your comments and questions below. 

 

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Create a Lasting Impression as a PA, with Avery Brand&Print™

With the job market fiercely competitive and the best roles always highly sought after, effective presentation is more important than ever to create the right impression at interviews and stand out from the crowd.

Luckily, there are new ways job-hunting PAs and secretaries can enhance their visual presentation to prospective employers and customise the way the present themselves at interview.

One web service growing in popularity among clever job seekers is www.averybrandandprint.co.uk.

Avery Brand&Print service is an easy-to-use design tool that enables job hunters to create high quality, customised presentation materials such as custom binders, laptop skins and business cards.

The products are printed on professional Avery supplies and shipped directly via an express service, allowing candidates to easily create a professional look.

In a busy world where preparation and planning are essential, potential employers are sure to be impressed by a candidate who demonstrates initiative, imagination and strong organisational skills. Having your own personalised materials, either during the interview or given out at the end, can really help candidates to leave a lasting impression with potential employers.

Avery Brand&Print laptop skins are suitable for virtually all makes and sizes of laptop. The self-adhesive skin, in a gloss or satin finish, personalises and protects the lid making it a stand-out feature when using a laptop for interview presentations. 

Another excellent use of Avery’s Brand&Print service is to customise A4 and A5 ring binders for use during interviews or as ‘leave behinds’. There is no minimum order quantity and binders can easily have extra pockets for branded business cards, CDs and DVDs.   

Alternatively to really impress a prospective employer, why not leave the interviewer with a personal, professional business card? Avery Brand&Print Business Cards are premium quality 300 gsm cards which can be used single or double-sided. They come in packs of 100 with a protective cover that stops any creasing, helping to create a professional and organised appearance at all times. 

For more information on Avery Brand&Print or to start designing your own interview materials, visit the website www.averybrandandprint.co.uk. 

Note to editors 

Avery® Brand&Print™ is an online service designed to make it easier for you to use your existing Brand, imagery & logos and get high quality printed materials such as business cards, laptop skins, binders, self-adhesive posters or labels. The on-line design tool makes it easy to create your own products, have them printed on professional Avery supplies and shipped to you when you want them and in convenient quantities. For more information, visit www.averybrandandprint.co.uk.

Avery Dennison Office Products markets products under the well-known Avery brand name and is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of self-adhesive labels and paper products for laser and inkjet printers, labelling software, index dividers and a wide range of other products for both consumer and industrial markets.  Avery Dennison Office Products Europe, a business unit of Avery Dennison Corporation, has manufacturing operations in UK, Germany and Italy and sales and marketing offices in more than ten countries across Europe.  For more information about Avery products, consumers can visit www.avery.eu.

Avery and all other Avery brands and product names are trademarks of Avery Dennison Corporation.

Christmas comes early with Avery Design & Print Online

Make your Christmas Extra Special with Avery Design & Print Online Christmas Edition 2011

Get into the festive spirit and bring that extra special personal touch to your season’s greetings this year with the unique Avery Design & Print Online Christmas Edition 2011.  

The special edition of the free, easy-to-use, online software launches is available now and offers a wide range of festive Christmas designs to help you personalise your greetings cards, Christmas labels, gift tags, invitations and more. From Christmas trees to seasonal snowmen, you’ll be sure to find a design that’s perfect for all your loved ones and work colleagues.

Best of all, Avery Design & Print Christmas Edition 2011 is totally free to use with no download required, allowing you to print straight from the web to your printer. This also means no delivery waiting times or lost postal orders – just professional quality, great value Christmas products in no time.

Personalising your Christmas greetings using Avery Design & Print Online Christmas Edition 2011 couldn’t be simpler, with quick and easy step-by-step guidance from start to finish ensuring great results every time. Simply choose from the wide range of Christmas designs, select the Avery product you wish to print onto and personalise it with your own unique message. Simple, quick and easy, and great fun for all the family!

And, if you really want to use your imagination, you can quickly alter colours, fonts and sizes, as well as changing the background design to one of your own. You can also print as many designs as you like at any one time or save them for use later, allowing you to make changes and print more copies whenever you need to.  

So, whether you’re printing gift tags and party invitations for family and friends or sending out greetings cards at work, Avery Design & Print Online Christmas Edition 2011 has everything you need and more this Christmas.

 

Notes to Editors

Avery Office Products markets products under the well-known Avery brand name and is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of self-adhesive labels and paper products for laser and inkjet printers, labelling software, index dividers and a wide range of other products for both consumer and industrial markets.  Avery Office Products Europe, a business unit of Avery Corporation, has manufacturing operations in UK, Germany and Italy and sales and marketing offices in more than ten countries across Europe.  For more information about Avery products, consumers can visit www.avery.eu. Avery and all other Avery brands and product names are trademarks of Avery Corporation.

For more information, please contact: Francesca Weeks: Francesca@footprint-comms.co.uk  

 

Forget me not - By Avery

New research by Avery labels busy Brits as forgetful..continued....

According to a new research commissioned by Avery Office & Consumer Productss, the top twenty list of things Brits forget are:

1. To return phone calls
2. To reply to emails
3. People’s names
4. To send birthday cards
5. Charge phone
6. Passwords
7. Take meat out the freezer
8. To water plants
9. Pick up things from the printer
10. Take the rubbish out
11. Take the washing out of the machine
12. To post things
13. Pick up packed lunch
14. Record TV show
15. House keys
16. Turn alarm off at weekends
17. Glasses
18. Wallet
19. Anniversaries
20. Washing up

 

Notes to editors

Avery Office Products markets products under the well-known Avery brand name and is the leading manufacturer of self-adhesive labels and paper products, labelling software, office accessories, trimmers, guillotines, index dividers and a wide range of other products for both consumer and industrial markets.  Avery Office Products Europe, a business unit of Avery Dennison Corporation, has manufacturing operations in UK, Germany and Italy and sales and marketing offices in more than ten countries across Europe.

For more information about Avery products, consumers can visit the Avery Office Products Europe site at www.avery.eu. 

For further details please contact: Yiannaki Loizou at yiannaki@footprint-comms.co.uk Tel: 01962 738718

 

Have you forgotten any of these this week? How do you ensure you don't forget important occasions and 'things to do'?

New research by Avery labels busy Brits as forgetful

Busy Brits forget on average five important facts or tasks every day, it was revealed yesterday.

Forgetting to call people back at work and replying to emails are the most common jobs which slip our minds during hectic shifts at the office. Failing to remember colleagues' names, leaving things on the printer and forgetting to bring a packed lunch also featured high on the list, it emerged.

The research of 2,000 Brits, commissioned by Avery Office & Consumer Products, found that more than one in two Brits blamed 'trying to do too much’ as a reason for forgetting things with others simply blaming 'stress'.   

A quarter said they were relied on to remember too much and a fifth said there weren’t enough hours in the day for them to get on top of everything that needed to be done.

Gregg Corbett, Marketing Director of Avery Office Products, said: “This research demonstrates exactly what workers up and down the country feel: that modern life is very demanding and things can easily be forgotten and left off to-do lists.”

“People have so much to do in their lives that the most basic things like remembering to bring lunch to work or replying to important emails are being completely forgotten about.

This then causes further complications when we try to correct things that we’ve overlooked, adding even more things to our ever growing list of daily tasks.”

“It seems the more we can do to simplify people’s daily lives, the better all of us will feel and the less mistakes we will make.”

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