With every year that passes Office 365 grows a larger customer base and each December we face the same staggering demand for Diaries. So every year our team of dedicated staff re-calculate how many diaries they believe our customers will order and low and behold, our estimates never seem to quite meet the demand. So this year we upped the levels again and ordered plenty more diaries in cheap brands for our customers watching the pennies and an equal amount in higher quality, big brands for those wishing to make a statement. Yet again, our stocks are wearing very thin, and it’s not yet January. So if you’d like to order diaries for yourself, your office, your home or your staff, we’d advice ordering quickly before we run completely dry.

Feel free of course to wait it out until the timing is more convenient, however if you wait until the end of December or the beginning of January, you may find yourself running from high street store to high street store frantically waving your hands in the air ready to throttle the next member of ‘Smiths’ who says “sorry, we’re all out”. Imagine trying to keep on top of all your appointments and commitments without a diary to jot it all down…not a pretty picture and very stressful I can tell you!

Worry not however, here at Office 365, you’ll find we have an exceptional choice of diaries to choose from. We do recommend however due to the time of year, that you phone to check stock before ordering, we have a reputation to uphold you see and hate to let our customers down.

Our cheap option (for the Christmas Scrooge’s out there) –

5 Star 2012 Day-to-Page A5 Diary

• Fully section sewn, 70gsm white wove paper
• Appointments every half-hour from 0800 to 1830
• Separate pages for Saturday and Sunday
• Colour matched ribbon marker
• Size: A5 210 x 148mm
• Black
• 88% off – Just £1.45

Our high quality option (for the budding Father Christmas’s) –

Collins Elite 2012 Compact Diary

• Collins Elite Executive 2012 Diary
• Day to Page
• Hourly Appointments
• Luxury padded ‘faux-leather’ diaries with a wiro binding that allows them to lie flat on the desk when open
• Each diary contains a number of added value features including: PVC business card pockets, pull-out year planners (current and future year), removable A-Z personal directory and notebook section, ziplock bag for loose receipts etc, a pen holder and ribbon markers
• Compact
• Size: 190 x 127mm
• Black
• 25% off – £15.58

Last year we recommended to you our faithful and loyal customers, a fantastic Christmas gift idea; the Christmas Hamper. However we ended up inundated with people looking for Christmas Hamsters! So today we yet again bring you the announcement that Office 365 sell gorgeous Christmas Hampers, the perfect gift for staff, clients and customers with plenty of different options to choose from. But please, if you’re looking for the perfect Christmas Hamster, you’ll need to go to your local pet shop! I really don’t think you’re child would be particularly pleased with a basket filled with nice grub instead of their new squeaky friend, just as Vice Versa, I’m not sure what your clients would think if you bought them a hamster?  We are Office 365 for a reason, buy your animals elsewhere!

This year instead of offering you ready made hampers, we’re giving you the chance to create your own! All you need to do is find the box or basket that you’d like to present the goodies in and we’ll do the rest. Take your pick from a large variety of different goodies and treats that would put a smile o the face of any recipient. But what’s more, it doesn’t even have to be a food hamper, take a look at your options;

• Food – Choose from items such as Cadbury’s chocolate fingers, Cadbury’s biscuit selection, Crawford’s biscuits, Fox’s biscuits, Fair-trade biscuits and many more from Maryland, McVities, Oreo, Go-Ahead and Traidcraft. We also have various different chocolates and sweets available from Cadbury’s, Divine, Fox’s, Mars, Mentos, Nestle and Twix. Finally select from various different hot and cold beverages and you have the perfect hamper selection!
• Stationery – Why not create the perfect hamper for your child starting school, college or university, or indeed the ideal hamper selection for your friend or loved one starting their new job? Select from a wide variety of pens, paper, rulers, ink, pads, envelopes, labels, files, pockets, diaries and calendars. With a great selection of all these bits and pieces, your child, friend or loved one can be all prepared for the year ahead!
• The Clean Freak – Do you have a Mr Muscle in the family, or maybe a washer woman? Do you know someone close to you who just loves to clean? Then why not buy them their dream cleaning hamper collection? Choose from various kitchen and bathroom cleaning products, towels, polishes, bin liners and so much more, what a treat!..

You get the idea; at Office 365 you can tailor the hamper to the individual, you just need a touch of imagination and a box or basket. If you’d like some help choosing or are in need of more information, please get in touch, we’re always happy to help! – 0870 766 1624

It’s that time again, and I can tell you, it’s certainly feeling as though I only did this a month ago! Yes 2011 has gone by in the blink of an eye, yet so much has happened. It’s be a rather interesting year for us all, and for most, a financial struggle. So let’s say good bye to 2011, good riddance even and lets welcome with open arms 2012 with hope, positivity and the strength of new beginnings. However there’s still the matter of getting the office organised for the New Year! It’s no good giving your staff a morale boosting 2012 speech to encourage motivation if you forget to put the essential in place to keep the office running in the first place!

What every office and home for that matter needs is fresh organisational equipment. By this I mean diaries, calendars and office year planners. Just picture it now; January 3^rd comes and one by one in walks your rather red nosed yet re-energised staff, ready to begin work, refreshed and positive. But hang on, that’s last year’s diary? They can’t organise meetings with clients without a calendar to look at and how are you meant to keep on top of your staff’s holidays? It simply wouldn’t do; businesses need to get organised in December, way before the offices close for Christmas, so if you haven’t purchased your 2012 organisational tools, you’d better hurry up!

One of the most popular products are reusable planners, also known as perpetual planners. A great example of these would be the Mark-it Laminated Perpetual Year Planner. At just £10.49, you can use this laminated planner year in year out and is sure to last you many years; what a bargain!

• Mark-it Laminated Wall Planner
• Permanently bonded between two sheets of tough, flexible, crystal clear plastic
• The write on, wipe off surface can be used with both dry and wet wipe pens
• Most are double sided allowing portrait or landscape display
• Each planner comes complete with an accessory kit containing a marker pen, a range of coloured stickers and fixing pins for wall mounting
• Calendar or rolling year at a glance
• Colour shading clearly separates weeks
• Includes self-stick date strips which re-position in seconds
• WxH: 900 x 600mm

With such flexibility of use too, you can make this planner be and do exactly what you want and included in the tiny cost is an accessory kit containing a marker pen, a range of coloured stickers and fixing pins for wall mounting, which surely is worth the overall price itself! This has to be the perfect organisational tool and one that will put a smile on everyone’s faces given the financial hell of year we’ve had! To order, simply follow the link and add to your basket, send us a purchase order by fax (0800 612 9524) or call on 0870 766 1624.

Most offices across the UK are re-opening for business by the 4th January, leaving you just enough time to get your business prepared for the year ahead. With a full year’s holiday entitlement due to your employees, you’ll certainly need to be prepared for some way of logging all their days off and planned holiday! There is no better method of staff organisation for the year ahead than 2011 staff holiday planners!

Our Sasco 2011 Staff Planner is tried and tested and after using many other similar products, is used year upon year in our office.

• Space for up to 40 staff or projects
• Displays a Monday – Friday working week
• Symbol stickers and chart pen included
• WxH: 915 x 610mm
• Unmounted
• 24% off
• Free delivery when purchasing 4+ of this product

Originally staring out 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. Now offices across the globe are completely reliant on the almost age old holiday planner as a way of organising their staff throughout the year.

Sasco, part of the Acco group (who are No:3 in our top supplier list), continue to lead the way and today offer the most comprehensive collection of dated planning products available. ACCO UK Ltd take their environmental responsibilities seriously and with this in mind they have a range of products which address their environmental concerns in a positive way.

It’s Christmas and that can only mean one thing! 2011 is just around the corner and we all have a wonderful full years worth of mandatory holiday coming up! Time to get organised people, this means at home as well as in the office. A fresh year brings the need for new diaries, calendars and staff planners, not to mention a stock up of the old biscuits and tea. This is where Office 365 can help you. With our fantastic choice of office planning equipment and accessories and our famously low prices, you’re sure to find exactly what you need, and at the prices you can afford after such an expensive time!

The office planner is vital for the organisation of your office and the teams and individuals within it. It allows you to keep on top of the comings and goings within the office and the tasks assigned to each team and individual. However the planner cannot be used to its full extent without the use of office planner accessories! Self adhesive and re-usable stickers, strips, magnets, shapes and kits correspond with your chosen planner and enable you to make full use of your planner, clearly marking important dates and events. It allows the user to colour code teams and staff members for quick glance use. Our Franken Planner Accessory Set featured to the right has everything you could possibly need, containing 20 magnetic name plates (50 x 10mm), coloured magnetic strip (5mm x 2m), in red, green, blue and yellow strips, transparent adhesive tape, tape cutter and 4 finemarkers (drywipe; red, green, blue and black). With festivity in the air, we’re offering you 24% off this item and combined with its free delivery, what more could you ask? I’ll tell you what; how about a reassuring 5 year guarantee? The icing on the cake…or rather the holly on the Christmas pud .

We’re precisely 11 days from 2012, that’s just 7 working days and counting! Never mind what’s coming this weekend, if you haven’t completed your online orders for Christmas by now, they probably won’t get here (Apologies for the pessimism)! It’s time to concentrate on the New Year now and if you haven’t thought about your home and office planning yet, then it’s time to get a move on. Each and every employee of yours or at least every area of your office will need a calendar, a staff holiday planner and diaries! Your staff will need to be able to see dates at-a-glance to quickly and accurately deal with your customers, so you’re going to need to get organised quick before we all return to work!

Monthly wall calendars are the perfect choice to easily reference your monthly events whether at work or at home. These calendars are often found centrally located such as on a wall or on your fridge.  Our 2011 wall calendars are selling like hot cakes and is it any wonder with examples such as this? Featured to your right is our At-a-Glance 2011 Wall Calendar which is one of our finest examples, featuring;

• Month to View wall calendar with At-a-Glance® date indicator
• Full year for reference on each page
• Gold blocked on a selection of coloured leatherette borders
• Size: 254 x 317mm

As our largest calendar in this At-A-Glance range, your employees (or yourself) stand a much better chance of being able view the dates from a distance, thus deserving it’s brand name! Please note, if you’re in a hurry, call our offices on 0870 766 1624 or e-mail order.enquiries@office365.co.uk to check stock availability.

At-A-Glance have specialised in producing traditional style non picture calendars since 1897 with the unique red window date indicator feature. These fantastic calendars where first developed by a man named John Frederick Bennet who began production in his North London stationery shop basement.  They became so popular and increasingly successful that the At-A-Glance branded calendars eventually became the entire business! Now, well into the 21^st century, these innovative calendars are still in as much high demand as they where more than 100 years ago!

After a bit of personal research for today’s blog, I realise now just how important a personal organiser is! As a full time working mum of two – as you can imagine – I don’t get out much; but my research was based on real relevant people…other mothers! Now who on earth needs to have more organisational skills than a parent, particularly one trying to juggle a career too? After much discussion we came to a final conclusion; organisational aids, and not just for the mum’s. It’s high time our children took some responsibility for their own personal events, whether school, hobby or social related. The Filofax is a brilliant idea for both the kids to use and the parents. How about considering a Filofax for your little ones this Christmas and not only will you make them feel ever so grown up, but alleviate some of the pressure too! Take a look at this ideal little organiser featured below.

The Mini Filofax Metropol Personal Organiser as with all the Filofax range was voted the nation’s 8th most loved Christmas or birthday present of all time making them the perfect Christmas stocking filler! This particular organiser pictured to your right features;

• Mini Organiser
• Modern ‘leather look’ PU design with natural grain appearance
• Features credit card pockets, inside full-length pockets and pen loops
• Includes diary, an A-Z index and a range of notes pages
• Mini size
• Black
• 30% Off (while stocks last!)

Alternatively, upgrade to our Pink Breast Cancer Awareness Filofax ensuring your pennies are going to a good course. As with all Filofax products; by purchasing from the brand, you will be supporting a company with fantastic environmental credentials.

The Green Bit

The Filofax Group is an environmentally conscious organisation and acknowledge the impact that their operations have on the environment. Their objective is to minimise any negative impact on the local and global environment through establishing, operating and reviewing a continuous improvement approach to the management of their Environmental Policy. Their key objectives are;

• To comply with environmental legislation.
• To set environmental strategic key tasks for the organisation, plus review their Environmental Policy as part of the annual budgeting process.
• To continue with the ongoing education and training of employees on environmental issues.
• Establish a Company Energy Policy.
• Consider the effects that their operations may have on the local community by behaving in a considerate and socially responsible manner.
• Regularly review their product design, trading and commercial standard practices to minimise any negative environmental impact.
• Promote environmental awareness amongst their customers, suppliers, contractors, and partners.
• Source paper from mills that operate a policy of obtaining pulp from sustainable sources and are FSC or PEFC accredited wherever possible.
• Ensure effective and expedient incident control, investigation, and reporting.

Filofax will fully comply with the duties placed upon it within the requirements of statutory legislation, whilst at all times complying with, as a matter of best practice, the requirements and duties set out within approved guidance as issued by SEPA and other organisations. All employees and subcontractors are expected to co-operate and assist in the implementation of this policy whilst ensuring that their own activities, so far as is reasonably practicable, are carried out without risk to themselves, others, or the environment. The Chief Executive has overall responsibility for ensuring that the management of the company implements the environmental policy and also gives adequate consideration to environmental matters within the day to day running of the business.

Being that a Filofax was voted the 8^th most loved Christmas Present of all time; we can safely assume that many of you were given one last year, unless of course like me, you had to buy one for yourself! Well you’ll now need to order the refills for your little organiser, as without the pages for 2011, it’s a tad useless. But please note, we are already almost out of the 5 Star variety, so you’ll need to get in there quick before we sell out of the Filofax Diary Refills too!

The Filofax is the most convenient way to stay organised allowing you to keep a diary of your daily appointments the way you want to. With week to page, week to view, day to page and more options, you will find the best diary refills for your little organiser, suited to your daily hectic or not so hectic schedule. With further options available to the Filofax such as address and telephone pages, card holders, note pages, tabs and indexes, you can adapt your organiser to meet your own personal needs.

Take a look at the Filofax A5 Day Per Page 2011 Diary Refills featured to your right. These are suitable for use with A5 sized Filofax and Microfile organisers and allow you to use an entire page per day to record appointments. Filofax have been responsible for helping people organise their business and social lives for many years now. Filofax Professional systems are a highly practical solution designed specifically to enable the user to organise in order of importance, their work whilst enabling the user to also prioritise their daily tasks to meet deadlines and keep social arrangements.

The Green Bit

The Filofax Group is an environmentally conscious organisation and acknowledge the impact that their operations have on the environment. Their objective is to minimise any negative impact on the local and global environment through establishing, operating and reviewing a continuous improvement approach to the management of their Environmental Policy. Their key objectives are;

• To comply with environmental legislation.
• To set environmental strategic key tasks for the organisation, plus review their Environmental Policy as part of the annual budgeting process.
• To continue with the ongoing education and training of employees on environmental issues.
• Establish a Company Energy Policy.
• Consider the effects that their operations may have on the local community by behaving in a considerate and socially responsible manner.
• Regularly review their product design, trading and commercial standard practices to minimise any negative environmental impact.
• Promote environmental awareness amongst their customers, suppliers, contractors, and partners.
• Source paper from mills that operate a policy of obtaining pulp from sustainable sources and are FSC or PEFC accredited wherever possible.
• Ensure effective and expedient incident control, investigation, and reporting.

Why is it that the human race has been segregated into two halves? It’s this gradual build up which has been happening almost blindly for years and is now so blatant it should be screaming in our faces. But we’ve all grown so used to it that we don’t even see it!

We seem to have formed two groups; the men and the women. But what staggers me is that one half of the human race – the women- seem to need completely different products, catered specifically for their ‘unusual breed’, hmmmm.

One of the top searched for office products on Google is ‘Office accessories for women’. Items which fall into this ‘category’ are of course ‘pink,’ ‘pretty’, ‘colourful’ or completely aesthetic. Some examples might include artificial plants, Filofaxe’s or modesty panels.

Well at Office 365 we stock every product you could possibly need for your office, however ours are aimed at men and women. Because here we know that men too like a bit of colour and life in the office and that just as many men as women order artificial plants and soap dispensers. We also understand that men too are affected by, and support Breast Cancer Awareness and buy the products in support of this charity.

No segregation – No demeaning marketing – Just real office products designed for the entire human race.

Filofax, the nation’s 8th most loved Christmas or birthday present has teamed up with Breast Cancer Campaign and have developed a special edition bright pink leather look pocket organiser. It is packed full with special features such as; Introduction pages, Guardian Angel diary reminder stickers, special pink dividers, ruler and paper and also the usual week to view diary, address sheets and a range of notes pages. The binder has a 6 ring mechanism and measures 130mm width x 150mm height with paper size of 81 x 120mm. So if you’d like to join us in supporting the worthy Breast Cancer Campaign, you can purchase the binder for just £28, saving 25% when you buy from us! Plus, for every organiser sold, £2.20 is donated to Breast Cancer Campaign. Take a look below at the organiser that could help to save the lives of so many.

When you buy a Filofax, you know you’re buying from a company who have been responsible for helping people organise their business and social lives for many years now. Filofax Professional systems are a highly practical solution designed specifically to enable the user to organise in order of importance, their work whilst enabling the user to also prioritise their daily tasks to meet deadlines and keep social arrangements, hence why is proves to be so popular in the gift market. It makes not just a perfect birthday or Christmas present, but also a fantastic corporate and motivational gift too, which in turn will help to keep your staff organised! For so many reasons, get yourself a Pink Filofax today and save yourself a small fortune if you’re looking to buy for all your staff! Just call us for a quote on 0870 766 1624.

The Green Bit

The Filofax Group is an environmentally conscious organisation and acknowledge the impact that their operations have on the environment. Their objective is to minimise any negative impact on the local and global environment through establishing, operating and reviewing a continuous improvement approach to the management of their Environmental Policy.