Don’t start the new year by bringing your staff back into a frosty office. Reward their hard work and encourage more of it by creating a comfortable temperature and environment for them to work in. It’s the start of 2010, if you can begin the year with a positive vibe in the office, that can only bring positive energy and a more enthusiastic work force. Also, offices are renowned for their freezing cold temperatures during the winter months and it is for this reason that absence peeks during the cold months. This could be down to colds and flu or to employees simply skipping work to avoid the cold workplace. What we need to ask ourselves is; could we create a warmer environment to prevent sickness? If we were to raise the temperature in the office during winter months, is it less likely that employees would skip work?

At Office 365 we believe that the office can only benefit in every aspect from the purchase of heaters, and a great choice for the workplace is the Honeywell Oil Filled Radiator featured to your right. It features;

• Three heat settings 750W, 1250W and 2000W
• Adjustable thermostat
• Heats a room up to 24m
• 24 hour timer
• Frost guard function, automatic cut-in at 5 C
• Overheat safety cut-out
• Extra wide wheel base for stability
• WxDxH : 240x480x645mm

Honeywell actively encourage all of their customers to recycle used electronics.  These include computer monitors, portable computers, digital picture frames, televisions, portable DVD players, desktop printers, and video game consoles.  Just contact your local municipality for information about how and where to recycle your e-waste in your area.

For a larger variety of office heaters, just go to our Heaters section on the site where you will find a large selection to choose from.

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The start of a new year is about fresh beginnings, time to kick off with those new years resolutions. Maybe you’d like to be more organised this year, be a more successful business person? As they say, today is the first day of the rest of your life, you only live once. Don’t waste time wishing you’d done more, tried harder or been more successful, start now!

The key to your own success is confidence. Self belief will get you everywhere and as long as you believe in your self, you will carry across an image of strength, confidence and self worth which is something people aspire to and respect. If you can allow your self be confident, then more importantly, you will respect yourself – this is the key to your success!

A new you has to start with the basics, maybe a healthier diet and life style, more sleep, a new suit even. If you can feel as though you look the ‘bees knees’ you will have more confidence in yourself and your actions and you will literally ‘ooze’ self belief and strength. Why not kick off with a fancy new brief case? Maybe you’re looking to make an impact with colleagues, with your self even, while at the same time having a functional and well organized solution to your current business case needs? If this is ticking your boxes, then the Masters Attache Briefcase featured to your right, maybe the one for you. It features;

• Large central compartment
• Special expandable lid and base for extra capacity
• Extensive under-lid folio organiser
• ‘Suede look’ lining
• Gilt fittings and combination locks
• WxDxH: 460 x 140 x 330mm
• Black

Masters are a market leader in the supply of bags and office products and they are also focused on continually evolving and improving the range and services they offer. They work not only with leading manufacturers but they also deal with top designers to ensure that they develop innovative, creative and dynamic designs to reflect the latest trends. With a range of products that are design lead but mass market focused they manage to strive to offer designer solutions at prices we can afford. If this briefcase is not right for you however, there is a large selection of alternative briefcases to choose from on the Office 365 site.

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With the new year fast approaching, maybe it’s time to think about updating your office to keep up with your competitors and impress your clients and customers. 2010 brings new gadgets and gismo’s and a new approach to office life. Why not take the edge of tedious day to day tasks with more up to date innovations and keep your staff believing in your business.

At Office 365, we believe that one of the most useful and popular up to speed innovations is the Digital Easel. The one we have chosen for you is by 3M and is the most competitively priced on the market. The 3M Digital Easel featured to your right is PC and Mac compatible and so can be used by all.

The 3M Digital Easel combines the traditional easel with simple technology to electronically capture notes at they are being written.

• Save notes in a variety of formats
• No separate power source needed, just connect the USB to your computer
• Collaborate with participants in remote locations in real time with the Shared-Meeting application
• Can be used as a standard whiteboard as well as with 3M Post-it® Meeting Charts

This is great for training, internal collaboration and customer presentations and is designed to make the meeting room a more efficient place. Using an appliance such as this means that during meeting and presentations, your staff can focus on what is being presented and actively participate in the presentation as opposed to the old method of note taking. There will be no need for notes with this easel as it makes them for you! At the end of the session, everything written on the easel has transferred to your PC or Mac and can be printed off for reference. No need for minutes, no need for notes! There are other Digital Easels to choose from at Office 365 however, if you’d like to choose for yourself why not take a look at our site where you will find saving across the whole range.

3M is fundamentally a science-based company who produce thousands of imaginative products. They are a leader in scores of markets, from health care and highway safety to office products, abrasives and adhesives. 3M’s success begins with their ability to apply their technologies often in combination to an endless array of real world customer needs. All of this is of course made possible by the people of 3M and their singular commitment to make life easier and better for people around the world.

The Green Bit

In 1975, 3M was one of the first major manufacturing companies actively to address environmental issues and, as with their drive for innovation, they involved employees through their benchmark programme Pollution Prevention Pays. In the UK and Ireland they have managed to achieve Carbon Trust Standard certification for reducing their carbon footprint year-on-year.

3M believe they have a sound record of achievement in corporate responsibility but continually strive to improve their performance and address the ongoing challenges and opportunities. They are a company committed to sustainable development through a proactive approach to environmental protection, social responsibility and strong economic progress.

In 2008 3M was presented the Environmental Responsibility Award in the European Office Products Awards for the company’s development of recycled Post-it® products. ,By 2010, 3M aim to;

• Reduce Volatile Air Emissions by 25%
• Improve Energy Efficiency by 20%
• Reduce Waste (NonProduct Output) by 20%
• Complete 800 Pollution Prevention Pays projects

The environment is becoming increasingly for all of us. Governments, customers and the public are becoming more interested in the proper disposal of used electronics. As a result the European Union has developed the WEEE Directive (2002/96/EC) which was published on 27 January 2003, to ensure that systems for collection, treatment and recycling of electronic waste will be in place throughout the European Union. As the environment is a very important issue to the 3M, Company, they want to make sure that all products that fall within the WEEE Directive are dealt with according to these regulations.

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Uni-ball are a brand brought to us by Mitsubishi Pencil Company and are the biggest player in the UK Rollerball Pen market. In fact; six out of ten best selling Rollerball pens proudly carry the uni-ball logo! The Mitsubishi Pencil Company was established in Tokyo back in 1887 and the Uni brand derives its name from the word ‘unique’, which we feel is quite fitting. Their exclusive product variety is indicative of their desire to create products that uniquely match the needs of the individual user. Even though the company was founded in Tokyo and this is where the company headquarters are; the European headquarters is based in Worcester here in the UK.

Today we will be introducing you to the Uni-ball Vision Elite range of rollerball pens which contain the brands famous ‘Super Ink’. The benefits of Uni’s Super Ink are rather surprising, with resistance to water and light, whilst also being tamper and fade resistant, surely they’re the obvious choice?! These pens are available in a large range of colours and with resistance to water and alcohol, they provide greater protection from cheque or document tampering and with this super resistance to the elements brings writing that will survive the test of time. As the ink particles are larger, they are less likely to ’bleed through’ or blurr so your writing will be more legible and your paper pads will withstand their use. The Vision Elite features ‘Airplane Safe’ technology which prevents ink leaking on aircraft due to changes in cabin pressure – perfect for frequent or business travellers. With smooth flowing fountain pen-like results the Vision Elite is also ideal for written letters, invitations and business documents.

Take these Uni-ball UB200 Vision Elite Rollerball Pens featured to your right for example. These are Second generation liquid ink rollerball pens with waterproof and fade-resistant pigment ink. They feature a translucent grey barrel and smooth writing performance with comfortable grip. Their latest technology ensures that the ink will not leak, plus, they’re refillable! Perfect.

The Green Bit

The Mitsubishi Pencil Company has been manufacturing products made from recycled materials since 1992. They continually strive to increase the number of recycled products available in their range. Their objective is to use natural resources effectively and to minimise the impact on the environment. It is for this reason, they have developed:

• Products made from a proportion of recycled materials.
• Products that have a longer shelf life and are refillable.
• Simplified packaging to ensure less waste.
• Packaging that is produced on materials from sustainable woodland sources and printed by a Carbon Neutral company.
• Packaging that uses only vegetable based inks and water-based coatings.
• Cardboard packaging that is fully recyclable.

For a greater selection of Uniball products or for a specific Uniball Rollerball, visit our site where you will find a huge choice and big discounts!

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With January 1st 2010 fast approaching, it’s your last chance to get all those essentials for the office before the new years….well….not new any more! The start of the new year brings with it the need for more supplies; it is the time of year we all get our offices booted up for the year ahead. There are those obvious essentials which I’m sure none of you have forgotten…well, maybe there are a few! For example the ever so vital wall planners to keep you office and staff in order and feeling organised, the diaries to keep you’re appointments in order and desk and wall calenders!

When it comes to personal planning we choose Collins every time. Take the diary featured to your right for example; 

This Balmoral desk organiser is a luxury leather diary with features such as a secure strap closure, page size of 216 x 140mm, a credit/business card holder, 7 ring mechanism, a zip wallet/storage pocket, personal reminder pages, 2010 week to view diary, today ruler, notes pages, meeting pages, to do pages, finance pages, telephone/address pages, a-z tabs, subject tabs and a notepad! Plus most sections are refillable. With a massive 42% off, you can pick these up at Office 365 for just £17.40!

Another obvious essential for every office is the 2010 calendar! Now obviously we only recommend the best for our customers and so Collins feature here to. If you look to your left you will find the Collins Colplan 2010 calendar.

This A4 calendar is wiro bound so that pages can easily be turned over on themselves and it can be hung upon the wall. Each day features space to write in and each month is coloured alternately (see picture) for easy reference. It measures 297mm x 210mm. With a generous 22% off, this is expense that you can afford! You can buy this calendar from Office 365 for just £2.98.

Collins Green Bit

Collins will only order raw materials from reputable, well established companies who are compliant with environmental legislation and procedures. Collins policy is to source their paper based products only from reputable mills which commit to implementing sustainable forest management to supply the need for wood as raw material for pulp making. They require all supplier’s to pursue continual improvement in their environmental performance.

Finally, we would like to recommend a perpetual wall planner by Sasco, a brand brought to us by Acco brands. Sasco have been the market leaders in the field of office planners for many years, with good reason. Originally staring life as the Self Adhesive Sticker Company, Sasco created the market leading Sasco planner as a way of increasing demand for its small self adhesive stickers, and inadvertently changed the way UK business’ record and plan events, holidays, staff movements and training in the process. Featured to your right is the Sasco Monthly Planning Board.

This Sasco Performance Planning Board features a dry erase surface with printed planning matrix, integral magnetic eraser, magnetic pen clip and is supplied complete with the Sasco Prostyle dry erase marker and magnetic planning kit. The beauty of a perpetual planner such as this is that it can be used year after year saving you time and money! You can buy this board from Office 365 with a super saving of 26%, that brings the price right down to just £55.10!

For a complete range of diaries, calendars and planners, take your pick from our wide selection at Office 365!

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It’s Pilot’s time again at Office 365 and it’s been some time! But if there were ever a brand for the job, today, it really has to be Pilot. Grip Pens are in demand, with this is mind we’ve been doing a little experimenting and Pilot come out top with their ‘BegreeN’ range. Pilot has recently launched its first full range of BegreeN recycled writing instruments. These consist of the same famous Pilot pens you are used to but in a recycled version, as well as new and innovative products that you have never seen before. Helping the planet doesn’t have to cost much as Pilot would like to encourage us all to be economically friendly. The BegreeN range products are the same price as the standard range equivalent. They are environmentally friendly writing instruments which allow you to make your own contribution to being environmentally friendly. Pilot believe that BegreeN is the attitude to adopt and is the range that is positive to our planet.  A fantastic option would be the Pilot BegreeN Grip Pen featured to your right.

A projection screen is a useful devise which is used to receive a projected imaged which could be either still or moving, such as movies, or OHP presentations. You will find a great many at Office 365 all of which are typically white or off-white and can be curved or straight, depending on the type you choose. Projection screens can either be portable or stationary, the portable kind are ideal for business presentations. You can purchase portable screens with a tripod for easy set up and for use in places where hanging them from something else is not possible or practical, or you can purchase the hanging rail kind. Alternatively, you can choose from the pop up/fold away option, the screens on casters and the desk mounted varieties.

We do however, also have the very popular projections screens that have the ability to roll up and down, just the same as a window blinds. Take for example the Rolling Electric Wall Mounted Projection Screen featured to your right.

This rolling function enables it to be used only when needed, and not take up space when it isn’t. Our roller screens are most commonly requested by schools for use in classrooms but are also often purchased by businesses and corporations where presentations may be frequent, but space limited. You will find that some of our projection screens feature an automated, silent motor roller action, where the push of a switch will activate a motor that will do all the work. The screen featured is an affordable electric screen that is easy to use and simple to install. It is ideal for creating a professional look and feel to your presentation. To work, you simply use the remote control to lower the screen and you are ready to go! This stylish design is easy to install, you simply plug it in and use, no professional wiring required. The brilliant matt white surface provides a brilliantly sharp image that can be easily viewed by everyone in the audience.

With so many varieties, choose carefully when selection your projection screen. When you’re setting it up also bare in mind that the proximity of the screen to the projector will determine the size of the picture, so your projector or your screen may need to be adjusted – if you need any advise, or would like more choice of projection screens, why not take a look at our site or just call one of our team on 0870 766 1624.

Stanley are a company who are proud of their reputation for nothing but excellence. They are dedicated to continually testing, designing and improving their products to achieve absolute perfection, superb quality and maximum function. Maintaining their standing of being the world’s best at what they do is of high importance to them and in their opinion, nothing more than what you should expect from a name like Stanley.

In 1843, the Stanley Works was a bolt and door hardware manufacturing company located in New Britain, Connecticut and was founded by Frederick T. Stanley. Later, in 1857, Frederick’s cousin, Henry Stanley, founded The Stanley Rule and Level Company which in 1920 merged with The Stanley Works and went on to become it’s famous Hand Tools Division. Over the coming years, The Stanley Works produced some of the most innovative and useful tools ever made and among these tools where the Bailey® Plane, the Surform® shaper, the PowerLock® tape rule and most recently the FatMax™ line of products.

To this day, Stanley continues to be an industry leader in tool innovation and in 2001, they introduced more than 100 new products, bringing the number of new products introduced in the past four years to an astonishing 400! As a result of their commitment to excellence, Stanley was awarded the Prestigious Golden Hammer Award, presented for New Product Innovation in both 2000 and 2001.

In 2007, Stanley introduced more than 100 new products of which many won awards for great distinctions. The company itself has been triumphant in winning numerous awards throughout the years for packaging, design innovation, communication and advertising. Most recently, Stanley won 4 Golden Hammer Awards in 2007 and also won two IDEA awards in the 2007 International Design Excellence Competition!

Stanley are more commonly known for their selection of knives. In fact, when you think of a trade knife, a cutting tool or an artists knife, you think Stanley, right? Well at Office 365, we have a great selection and you’re bound to find the Stanley Knife you were looking for.

Hamelin Paperbrands Ltd, are the owners of the Oxford stationery brand. They are the largest supplier of branded envelopes, notebooks, pads, diaries, personal stationery and paper-based education supplies in the UK. Hamelin Paperbrands is the home of the Oxford stationery brand along with other well-known brands such as Basildon Bond.

Oxford are the creators of many well known book and pad brands such as; Black n’ Red, Easybook, International, Notebooks, Npad, Office, Paper Show, Pink n’ Black, Diaries and Education (an exorcise book brand).

Thanks to its segmentation strategy, the Oxford brand is well equipped to address and satisfy all the aesthetic and functional aspirations and requirements demanded by its users, whatever their universe. Whether you are a child, a student, an executive or an office worker, the Oxford brand can cater for you. Meeting or anticipating end users expectations demands continuous efforts of innovation is what Oxford have proven since their beginning.

If you’re looking for a particular Oxford Book or Pad, we have them all at Office 365. Oxford are a favourite here, maybe now our customer can understand just why.

The Green Bit

Oxford are dedicated to providing environmentally friendly products for the benefit of future generations. They pride themselves on sourcing raw materials responsibly and continuously strive to improve the environmental credentials of their products. With that in mind, Oxford are pleased to announce all their exercise books manufactured from April 2009 are accredited with the Paper by Nature eco-label.

Paper by Nature is a unique international eco-label for converted paper products that’s eco-responsibility ranges from raw materials all the way through to the manufacturing of the finished product. The Paper by Nature Association was initiated by key players throughout the paper and paper converting industry. The label is audited by a third party to ensure its integrity. The main requirements that must be met in order to be awarded with the Paper by Nature eco-label are;

Because we are all responsible for the preservation of our planet, Oxford has undertaken to constantly strive to limit the impact their products have on the environment and inform their customers about the measures they are taking to achieve this. This could be from eco responsible product design, the selection of raw materials, right through to the manufacturing of the finished products.

To find out more information about how Oxford the brand acts for the planet, take a look at the following link; http://www.oxfordactsfortheplanet.com/

Since Sanford’s creation in 1857, the key to their success has been innovation and quality. From a small company producing and marketing inks and glue, they’ve now grown to be the leading manufacturer of writing instruments. Today, they offer a wide variety of familiar brands, which are relied upon by kids to professionals, young and old alike. One of these brands is the famous Rotring.

Rotring’s quality writing instruments are poetry in motion. The sophisticated brand of writing instruments are for people who develop intelligent concepts and have a committed desire to bring their thoughts to life. The technical perfection and ergonomic design of Rotring products, provide a comfortable, tireless writing experience. Rotring pens, pencils and other technical equipment is known and trusted all over the world.

Recently, Office 365 have been overwhelmed with request’s for drawing aids; compasses, curves and stencils. We have received numerous questions asking which brand is best and which product is most useful. Of course the answer was always Rotring and we have chosen a selection of their best products which we believe may be helpful.

Featured to your left is the Rotring Master Bow Compass. It has an infinitely variable radius setting through a convenient button mechanism and precision adjustment through a central spindle. Both legs have a joint, pivot: Ø 4.0 mm, length: 170 mm. The compass has a lead box plus a spare needle.  Do take a look at the site; if you’re looking for a Drawing Compass, we have plenty more to offer.

You will also find a selection of Rotring curves available at Office 365. We think the ones featured to your right, the Rotring Centro Burmester Curves are great. They are designed for the drawing of universal curves. Each piece is made from crystal-clear, stable plastic and feature double-sided tracing edges all round. This set comprises of three pieces and is for drawing curves of multiple lengths and sizes for any occasion. To take a look at our complete range of Drawing Curves and prices (featuring fantastic discounts), take a look at the site.

Featured to your left is the Rotring Architects Combination Template. If you look closely at the stencil, it has a separate layout of symbols for furniture, sanitary fittings, electrical fittings, door openings, level and direction symbols and insulation. The template is robust and non-warping while it’s transparent, yellow-tinted material leaves even the finest lines clearly visible. WxDxH: 120mm x 1.2mm x 150mm, scale: 1:50. For more Architects Stencils, take a look at what we have to offer online and don’t forget to check out the big savings across the entire range.