Business Report

Atlas Packaging, experienced independent packaging solutions

Atlas Packaging are a Devon based packaging solutions company situated in the town of Barnstaple. The multiple award winning company focuses solely on packaging using the very latest technologies.

Covering an array of market sectors ranging from the food, pharmaceutical, furniture and automotive industries to name just a few, Atlas strive in the production and development of Boxes, Cartons and Corrugated Cardboard Carrypacks.

Being a specialist in manufacturers of packaging enables Atlas to cater for a wide range of areas including pharma packaging solutions.

Gold Charms for Bracelets from Charmlinks

Looking online for a Charm Bracelet I stumbled across a fantastic little site called Charmlinks UK. The website had more charms then you could ask for, ranging from Charm Bracelets right through to some wonderful ranges to get a charm necklace.

A leading online provider of charm links, they provide charms at very competitive prices. As well as the complimentary free charm that we received we found them to be cheaper overall in comparison to other websites on our price hunt (that is, afterall why we report businesses here). If you are looking to get gold charms for bracelets, maybe for a special person or a celebratory occasion, check out this website for a host of charm jewellery!

Hertfordshire Catering Services

Make your catering hire a special occasion with Big Day Catering. “Big Day”, specialising in catering services cambridge, provide an all inclusive service for catering whatever the event. This catering company provides a range of products and services ranging from your typical catering style right through to hog roasts.

“Big Day” prides itself on its reputation for being able to apply catering to any event. By being affordable whilst maintaining a high quality service they strive to be the best in hertfordshire catering. By creating a personalised, tailor made menus to suit your individual requirements alongside their delicious food and fantastic service it truly does make your day perfect.

Advertising your solar sanel services in time!

With the UK getting set to put the Green Deal Scheme into full swing, Solar PV Installation companies are set to get very busy thanks to the government. With this there will be fierce competition within the department, a reason that the new online directory Solar Panel Installers is such a great new opportunity to get advertising.

The new online index covers UK counties and cities allowing businesses to maximise their visibility for the areas they serve. This will be a great way to expose your availability for your given areas. All listing are said to provide typical information such as telephone numbers, websites, social media links but what we like is that it also provides a map making it easier for people to find you.

The website is also constructed and developed with SEO in mind, adding the additional benefit of your website getting more visibility in the search engine results pages (SERPs).

Looking for Personal Injury Solicitors?

We had the need to search for personal injury solicitors on behalf of a relative that had slipped on the bus. An elderly lady gets onto the bus and the bus moves off without waiting for her to get to her seat, the result is that she falls and breaks her arm, that isn’t nice as it was my mum! This post therefore arises from two things, the first is that many of the adverts for personal injury claims on the tv are just claims companies, the second is that we found great personal injury solicitors that are just down the road, they are also real solicitors!

I didn’t know that the vast majority of tv adverts for personal injury claims are not even solcitiors, after a little delving and digging around, I actually found out that they are often no more than firms designed to get your details and then sell the claim on to actual solicitors. Obviously this is legal, but after calling up 3 such companies, the operators were obviously guided through the conversation by pointers asking for relevant details to get as much information from you to sell on. This is not the service that we wanted so we looked for a local solicitor specialising in a personal injury compensation claim such as ours and we found one. However, the whole episode came to an abrupt halt when we were reliably informed that, as this was public transport, there was no claim to be made. That information was garnered from a qualified solicitor, not someone with no qualifications reading from a computer – how refreshing!

Lovelinks – A Gift with Meaning?

Lovelinks are a brand of charms that can be placed on bracelets or necklaces and are one of the latest trends in the jewellery industry. There are several major brands that dominate including Thomas Saboo, Pandora and Lovelinks by Aagaard from Denmark. The lovelinks jewellery is becoming increasingly popular due to the flexibility and the collectability of the charms as well as making an ideal gift or Christmas present, especially for a girlfriend or partner. The first real selling point is that Love links are flexible for the fashion conscious female. As the Love links can be easily changed on the relevant bracelet or necklace, you can mix and match your jewellery according to your dress for that particular occasion. Secondly, the more charms you have, the greater the flexibility within your collection which makes these instantly collectable, very clever from a marketing perspective. Thirdly, they really work as a gift because of the message that they send. Rather than the traditional earings, this is a modern jewellery present associated with love, hence the brand name Lovelinks. The product therefore ticks several boxes and it is little wonder that they are so popular!

Free Electricity – Put an end to sky high bills

Fed up of sky high bills? As part of the government Green Deal Scheme, Green Deal Installations Ltd will be providing quick, hassle free solar panel installation with a Feed-in Tariff System (FiTs) guaranteed for 25 years by the UK Government.

Green Deal Installations Ltd provides and installs both thermal based and solar pv panels.

For more information contact them on 01271 865774 or at Unit 9 C Commercial Point, Mullacott Industrial Estate, Ilfracombe, North Devon, EX34 8PL.

Mortgage Lenders and Brokers

Searching for a local mortgage broker is a daunting task at the best of times so we had to serach online and found our local mortgage brokers through Moprtgage Lenders and Brokers. This appears to be a growing directory but we were actually searching for mortgage news before finding it and stumbled upon it. now we have great local mortgage advsiers who are independent and serached through the whole market rather than being restricted to tied products. The result was that we got the best deal so looking for local mortgage brokers helped us to identify the mortgage lenders that had the best deal in place for us, well worth following!

The Michael Phelps Swim Spa

We’ve found a great addition to your lifestyle if you like to relax and keep fit. Exclusively in the South West of England from the leading Devon Hot Tub hire company, Bay spas, the Michael Phelps swim spa is a great way to keep fit without the need for a swimming pool or a trip to the gym. I love swimming, it is a fantastic way to tone your body and apparently uses more muscle groups with less strain than any other form of exercise. However, getting to the local pool is a hassle so this is a unique and functional means to have a hot tub and swim spa combintaion. If you want to relax, just use the hot tub, if you want to exercise, use the swim spa, a great combination forming a fantastic fully functional product.

This spa has a unique wave propulsion technology so that you are effectively swimming against a current and staying in the same position. You can alter the flow of water to make swimming easier or harder as per your requirements. There is a wide area around the point of swimming so that you don’t hit your hands on edges or feet on the bottom of the pool. This is a fantastic product for both amateur and professional atheletes of all capabilities as it allows you to keep fit in your own home. The Michael Phelps swim spas by Master Spas is available exclusively by Bay Spas for the areas of Devon, Somerset and Cornwall in the UK. If you are into surfing, this is one product that will seriously improve your fitness, paddling capability and performance in the Devon and Cornwall beaches. If you are looking for this swim spa or any other hot tubs for sale in the South West, contact Bay spas and visit the huge range of hot tubs in their showroom.

Luxury Holiday Cottages

As the busy holiday season comes to a close and south west tourism returns to normal it’s the perfect time to start looking at relaxing down for the end of the year. The demand for Holiday Cottages won’t be as big but it’s a popular trade throughout the year.

If you are looking to treat yourself there is nothing better than a luxury UK Holiday Cottage, especially during those dark and cold winter nights. Imagine yourself all snug in a luxurious cottage for christmas or just for a nice break? My Favourite Holiday Cottages, who we have mentioned on Business Report before, provide over 300 cottages. This is a fantastic holiday cottage directory that specialise in providing the very best luxury cottages throughout the land. So why not treat yourself and experience a Uk cottage holiday?

Get Branded

One of the hardest things to do as a new business is to create and develop a brand. Brand identity is absolutely key to the long term prospects of any business. Potential clients need to be able to identify you immediately through your brand name, it needs to convey so many messages in so few words. A hard task really, so employing a Brand Agency to do the work for you is absolutely vital. Your brand is your business, if the brand doesn’t work, the business will be held back at best and fail at worst. Employing branding consultants is probably one of the first steps that any new or growing business should do. We have used ‘I Am Associates’ for our branding, their client list is hugely impressive with many modern and focused UK and international clients. The brief was to develop a restaurant design and relevant branding that fitted in with the locality and the target market. This would be the young and affluent couples who visit out restaurant at weekends and ‘I AM’ fulfilled the brief providing us with a fantastic branding identity that reflected the aspirations of us and our clients.

A4 Shirt Printers

A4 have launched a new site targeting the shirt printing business in the UK and we thought that we’d post because we like the site. The main reason is the functionality and the ease of use, especially for business clients. Put yourself in the position of a purchasing manager for a large corporation and you need to buy 1000 screen printed hoodies. With the majority of sites live today, you have to browse throught the site and end up on the end of a telephone for half an hour just to get a quote. If you need to get three or more quotes, then it is a whole days work. With this site, you can get a quote for any personalised hoodies or other garments within minutes and it is accurate. You can choose colours and sizes and upload the artwork online. The real benefit is that you get a quote straight away so you don’t have to spend time on the phone. The only drawback is that you have to buy 10 itmes or more but I guess that is their business model!

North Devon Windows

Woodstock Windows are an exceptional local company that provide home services. They provide new installations, repairs and trade supplies for windows, doors, facias, conservatories and a lot more. They’ve recently launced a new website that’s fresh, clean, easy to use and provides all the information you need to find the right service for you.

Their North Devon Windows line provides casement windows, bay windows, window frames, vertical sliding sash windows and the list goes on. As you can jemmy open traditional windows in the space of 20 seconds they also install windows with the latest SAC shootbolt locking system providing the best possible security.

Similar to their windows, Woodstock Windows provides a fantastic range of North Devon doors including Bifold UPVC doors, French patio doors and residential doors.

An array of conservatories to suit your style are also available on the website. Whether it be Victorian Conservatories, Edwardian conservatory or a combination be sure to check out the conservtories area.

So if you are looking for fittings, repairs,  replacements or installation for you windows, doors, conservatories or anything else contact Woodstock Windows (or visit their website) for a decent local service.

Static Caravan Parks and Pitches

Following on from the last post I had another dealing with a company in the holiday industry. I was looking for a more British holiday experience and used a company called Surf Bay to find a park and static caravan in my county, Devon.

Used caravans make great temporary accommodation during the building of a new house, especially in the summer. Static caravans make ideal accommodation for use on your own land as extra accommodation or work/living space. I was truly intrigued by how they can provide both a great holiday and great accommodation at the same time.

If you’ve decided it’s a used caravan, pre-owned static caravan or used static caravan you want or need I strongly suggest heading over to the Surf Bay Leisure website and taking a look at their great deals.

Nature Signs and Interpretation Boards

Nature Signs is an award winning business that designs and manufactures interpretation boards for nature trails and wilderness trails.  These are becoming more and more popular as green tourism and information requirements grow in the UK.  They have a fantastic reputation having featured on several BBC shows and the quality of their signs shows the reason!  The signs have two primary purposes, to provide information on what you should be looking at and to show you where you are!  This could include identifying different species of birds or mammals on a nature trail or to provide information on the history of a specific area or region such as the railway signs in Braunton in North Devon.

Nature Signs produces several different types of bespoke interpretation signs and  tailor made nature trail signs as well as habitat signs and wildlife signs.  They also use eco friendly wood for the lecturns with environmentally friendly woodstain treatments so that the mounts blend in with their backgrounds.  For more information on these great signs, contact Nature Signs on 01271 812301.

Team Building Devon

Invest some time with your clients or develop the skills of your staff  by holding an exciting and effective corporate event at Stoodleigh Court.

Teamwork makes things happen more efficiently, quickly and to a higher quality then most other things within organisations. Stoodleigh Court, also a  wedding venue amongst other things, offers team building Devon services providing for the region.

Stoodleigh Court also accommodates an impressive array of other corporate and conference facilities for Devon.

Its location also provides conference facilities for Exeter making it the ideal area for North and South Devon alike. Being in this region also allows it to cater conference venues for taunton, team building Somerset and the entire Somerset county itself.

Hi Visibility Clothing

Winter is nearly here and that means that walking along dimly lit streets and country lanes poses increased risks.  The risks are even greater if you are working during the night time hours, especially in the construction, manufacturing and transport industries.  You need to be seen and you need to get some hi viz clothing to help others to see you.  High Visibility Workwear are a leading UK supplier of hi vis jackets in the UK.  Not only can you be seen with the high visibility materials and the reflective stripes, but they are also very cost effective.  You can buy your hi viz jackets from as little as £10, depending on the number ordered but this isn’t a massive amount of money to pay to improve your personal safety in the dark!

Harrogate Wedding Photographer

Simon Mark Whitten is an internationally renowned wedding photographer with a unique style and an emphasis on exclusivity.  Having undertaken many celebrity weddings, Simon will not reveal his client list to anyone but it is believed to include several major soccer stars and pop stars!

As Simon describes on the home page of his award winning website; “The style and approach is “fine-art documentary”, that is minimally intrusive, bespoke, distinctive and very exclusive, coupled with flattering portraiture, attention to detail and a level of client service second to none.”  This essentially sums up the high level of service that you will recieve.  The highest quality images presented in the finest Bloomsbury photo albums taken by probably the leading UK wedding photographer.  As a Harrogate wedding photographer, Simon has covered all of the major venues in Yorkshire and these venues are amazing including Ripley Castle, Swinton Park, Harewood House and Fountains Abbey.  Simon travels far affield and is not just a wedding photographer in Harrogate, he is also fast becoming one of the leading international and destination wedding photographers.

Travertine World

Travertine World is a UK based international supplier of bespoke stone products including stone baths, shower trays, wash hand basins and tiles.  The company recently featured at the National Home Improvement Show at Earls Court and had a fantastic response.  Director David Mirrow commented ‘The show was a great success for us, our range of totally unique custom made stone bathroom products was a great hit.  We’ve taken a record number of orders and our guys are going to be really busy!!

Travertine World specialises in custom made or bespoke designed applestone, travertine and limestone basins, baths, shower trays and tiles.  This is a top end product with price tags to match.  a typical natural stone bath can set you back as much as ten thousand pounds and then there is the matter of delivery and installation.  Bespoke natural stone baths tend to be cut from one pice of stone and are therefore very heavy, floors will usually need to be re-inforced.  Even the natural stone shower trays are really heavy but you might not quite need a crane to lift them.  Travertine World also have a range of standard stone basins and cloakroom wash basins that offer design and functionality at some incredibly competitive prices.