Many of us a trying something new for Christmas this year; we all seem to have been faced with the same problem, what do you buy for someone who has everything? Thanks to the internet and its ever increasing market for online gift shopping, we are now seeing more and more websites aimed at ‘alternative gifts’ for him and her, innovative ideas, gifts which they certainly wouldn’t have received before. For example, the popularity of these ‘Red Letter Day’s’ gifts has gone through the roof, plus quirky gifts such as making your friend or loved one a lord or lady of a plot of land someplace in Scotland have really taken off. You’ll also fine ideas such as ‘name a star’, adopt a rescued animal, ‘name a rose’ and many more. Another amazing gift which has taken the market by storm these past couple of years is hot air ballooning, which makes for a wonderful gift idea this Christmas.

However what all these gifts have in common is that they are not wrap-able presents. Ok sure, so when your voucher or certificate arrives in the post, you could wrap it yes, but then it’s likely to be torn in the unwrapping process. Alternatively pop it inside an envelope, but then that spoils half the fun of unwrapping. The best way to gift wrap presents such as these is to present them well in the first place. Have you considered purchasing a plastic folder? In doing so, you will not only be making your gift look more high class, special even, but you will also be protecting it which means it can be wrapped up for full enjoyment!

Try our Rexel A4 Polypropylene Active Tab Folder with Seal featured below, a fantastic and affordable option for storing or presenting important documents.

• Easy access – no need to open binder mechanism when inserting folders
• Specially designed creases in front flap and gusset will stop distortions and splitting when full to capacity
• Assorted packs contain two each of red, blue and one of green
• Will store up to 150 sheets of paper
• Wrap around printable tab secures contents
• Size: A4
• Portrait
• Clear
• Packed 5
• 44% off – Now just £3.26 for a pack of 5!

The Green Bit

Rexel are an Acco brand, part of a company who are committed to providing and conducting its business in an environmentally responsible manner, ensuring that their products, packaging and operations are safe for their employees, business partners, customers and ultimately, the environment. They strive to continuously improve their processes and products to ensure innovation, quality and value for money without compromising on their environmental responsibilities.

Their core objectives are to reduce the amounts of material that they use whether in their products or their packaging, identify plastics to aid separation and recovery and recover parts and establishing re-usability potential, recycle as much as possible, use significantly more recycled materials in their processes while promoting and supporting the recycling of their products by their business partners and consumers. They also aim to recover the energy produced from waste by safe, effective disposal, return materials back to nature and review what they have done to try to improve their processes even further. As a testament to their commitment to be more environmentally driven and focused, many of Acco’s products have been verified by the MBDC Consultancy and awarded the Cradle to Cradle certification. This certification provides a company with a means to tangibly, credibly measure achievement in environmentally-intelligent design and helps customers purchase and specify products that are pursuing a broader definition of quality.

It’s now officially NOT summer anymore, but then again I’m not sure we had a summer at all this year. The ground has indeed had its fill of the rain and yet we can be sure to expect a whole lot more now that it’s autumn! I’m not intentionally trying to make you feel miserable, just being realistic, but also trying to guide you in the right direction so that you can be prepared for the weather to come. Whether you travel to work, school, college or university, or even to your local high street, there are always times when you’ll need to protect your possessions, your work and your documents while travelling in the rain, and the wind for that matter!

Do you work as an architect, or maybe a technical designer? Are you a fashion designer or an art student? Maybe your work in advertising or are simply looking for a solution to carrying around your delicate papers? With a tiny investment you could get yourself A3 Plastic Folders which will protect all your papers, artwork, maps, designs, blue prints and more from the elements. Take a look at the Heavyweight Rexel Carry Zip Bag featured below for the perfect solution to your needs.

• Transparent zip closure bags
• Contents readily visible
• Write-on identification panel
• Made from heavyweight, durable PVC
• Assorted colours
• Size A3
• Quantity 5
• You save £4.54 – Now just £9.26!

Recognise them? That’s right; these value for money, high quality plastic folders are in fact very similar to the ones you’ll see used in schools for children to transport their school books, homework and communications in. Schools famously use them for their hardwearing properties, their complete protection from the rain or other damage, and because of their highly convenient way of carrying paper items. However the only difference is that these ones are A3. You can of course also find the smaller varieties here at Office 365, so if you’re looking to order for your school, or your child, see below:

Rexel A4 Carry Zip Bag

Rexel A5 Carry Zip Bag

Ever wondered if there was a better way to store your small (yet very important) documents? Maybe you have a stack of receipts which are flying loose around the office or your home, alternatively you wage slips are housed in various locations without a home to call their name, or maybe you need a way of storing tax discs, medical cards, business cards, bank cards, post cards, stamps or coins? The passport can also pose a common problem, the most valuable form of identification (bar your fingerprints and retinas!), why risk it becoming aged or damaged? Whatever it is you need a little home for, clear plastic wallets may be just what you’re looking for!

Polyfiles are Snopake’s most famous filing product and are similar to an envelope with a pocket and flap with a couple of simple differences; the flap has a press stud to keep it closed and the envelope is made from strong durable (and weatherproof!) polypropylene. However what makes Snopakes Polyfiles so popular is their quality! To demonstrate just how popular the Polyfile is, we can tell you that over 79 million have been sold since 1995!

The featured clear plastic wallet is the Snopake A6 Polyfile P Wallet available in clear. The Polyfile™ P is a useful portrait (upright) format addition to the Polyfile™ range, portrait being a more convenient way of storing documents and files.

• Portrait envelope style files in durable polypropylene
• Clear file for easy identification of contents
• Snopake press stud closure keeps document secure
• A6
• Clear
• Packed 5
• Capacity (based on 80gsm paper) – 40 sheets
• £1.11 off – Just £3.67 for 5!

The Polyfile is designed from higher density, environmentally friendlier polypropylene for extra strength, durability and longevity; however Snopake’s entire filing range is plastic filing at its very finest! Snopake only use the best materials and components when manufacturing their products and are always striving to bring you products which make life easier. Did you know that the planned lifetime of the average Snopake file is a minimum of 3 times its cardboard equivalent?! So why not head on over to Office 365 where you will find a huge range of Snopake files and folders all with big savings and fast delivery.

Plastic wallets are one of our most popular products selling out frequently, even after purchasing huge volumes of them in preparation. Our customers buy them in bulk for quite a varied selection of different uses around the home, office and around the school or education facility. It seems that selection and assortment of colour plays an important role, along with variety of size too in some cases. We’ve been curiously asking our customers who order by telephone what they’re intending on using their translucent plastic wallets for; this is of course an optional question and is merely down to curiosity and nosiness I suppose. The most common purposes are;

In the Office

• Alphabetical/date filing
• Client info storage
• Employee records
• Training packs
• OHP transparencies storage
• Disk storage

In the Home

• Home filing
• Storing important documents (birth certificates, medical cards, passports etc)
• Storing personal letters
• Storing school reports
• Storing certificates of achievement
• Storing recipes
• Storing kids artwork
• Storing wage slips

As plastic wallets come in so many different colours and sizes, it makes them ideal for filing, each colour representing a different category. They then stack neatly on a shelf for easy and quick access when needed and look very professional and organised. Our selection of wallets is available in many sizes including A3 plastic wallets, A4 plastic wallets, A5 plastic wallets, foolscap plastic wallets, and other sizes. There are a number of different packs available with a variety of pack quantities, colours and transparencies. You can choose translucent plastic wallets which offer some visibility of their contents, but not full clarification, or alternatively you can choose clear plastic wallets which of course offer complete observation of their contents. If you’d like some help choosing which ones are best for the task you have in mind, maybe we can help; just call us on 0870 766 1624.

There are many paper items around the home (and the office for that matter) which need putting somewhere safe, however filing them takes up valuable space needed for important documents and bills. Having just purchased a 15 drawer multi-drawer filing cabinet (which I love!) it turns out that if I wanted to file everything, there just wouldn’t be enough room for 1 draw per category (i.e. Bank statements = 1 draw, mobile phone bills = 1 draw etc). So items such as my children’s beautiful pictures, homemade birthday/mother’s day cards, birth certificate, NHS medical records cards, pay slips, the children’s awards and certificates and other such items need to be put somewhere else, freeing up the filing cabinet for more official filing which needs to be organised for financial reasons! Keeping plastic folders with fasteners to hand means that you can house each of your ‘other items’ with their own folder, then slot these on the book shelf in the office. So for example, my daughter has graded in karate so many times now, that she has five certificates to demonstrate each belt, these can all be kept save together in one of these plastic folders and added to when needed. Letters and cards from loved ones can be saved in another, while birth certificates, passports and NHS medical cards can be kept in another.

A fantastic example of a plastic folder with fasteners is the Rexel Active Popper Wallet featured to your right.

• Unique double-sided ID sleeves ensure files are always visible
• Comes with an A4 folded label that gives 16 printable locations
• Ideal for storage of large documents and projects
• Assorted packs contain two each of red and blue and one of green
• Landscape – Extra Capacity (150 sheets)
• Assorted
• Packed 5
• 24% Off!!

These folders have clever re-usable ID features which ensure your files and file contents are always visible. The folders also feature a rigid spine which is designed so that it can click easily in and out of a lever arch file, for quick and easy access to contents… without having to open the mechanism. For just £5.39 a pack, you can’t go wrong!

The Green Bit

Acco are committed to providing and conducting its business in an environmentally responsible manner, ensuring that their products, packaging and operations are safe for their employees, business partners, customers and ultimately, the environment. They strive to continuously improve their processes and products to ensure innovation, quality and value for money without compromising on their environmental responsibilities.

Their core objectives are to reduce the amounts of material that they use whether in their products or their packaging, identify plastics to aid separation and recovery and recover parts and establishing re-usability potential, recycle as much as possible, use significantly more recycled materials in their processes while promoting and supporting the recycling of their products by their business partners and consumers. They also aim to recover the energy produced from waste by safe, effective disposal, return materials back to nature and review what they have done to try to improve their processes even further. As a testament to their commitment to be more environmentally driven and focused, many of Acco’s products have been verified by the MBDC Consultancy and awarded the Cradle to Cradle certification. This certification provides a company with a means to tangibly, credibly measure achievement in environmentally-intelligent design and helps customers purchase and specify products that are pursuing a broader definition of quality.

Acco are also proud to have been awarded the UK’s BOSS (British Office Supplies and Services) Federation Environmental Award for the past 11 years. The BOSS Federation is the trade association which serves the UK Office Supply and services industry by providing a range of initiatives, cost saving benefits and services, to enhance the business performance of its members. This comprehensive award scheme covers a wide range of environmental issues, such as reducing energy consumption and improving our employees’ working conditions.

This week we’re drawing your attention to our special offers. Already with a reputation for affordable office and stationery supplies, Office 365 are now offering you further reductions on all your favourite items. In business for nearly a decade, we have developed a name for ourselves over the years for providing quality products at the lowest prices on the net which is all backed up with our price match policy. If you take a look through our selection of home, office and stationery goods you will recognise quality, popular brands, unbeatable choice and fair pricing. And if you look a little deeper, you will find a team who are happy in their work, friendly to their customers and always at hand to help you. We offer so many little perks and quirks for our shoppers because we highly value your custom. Our special offers have been carefully picked singling out our most popular items so that you can get more for your money; this way, we hope you’ll come back for more!

Today’s special offer are the 5 Star Plastic Wallets featured. With a huge range of uses, it’s no wonder this one’s a favourite!

• Premium quality envelope wallets made from colourful, translucent polypropylene
• Press-stud closure provides added security for contents
• Accepts 150 sheets of A4
• Size: A4
• Assorted pack contains three each of clear, red, orange, purple, smoke, green and yellow and four of blue
• Quantity 25

Personally, as soon as I purchased a pack of these (which at the time was purely for storing wage slips and medical cards), I’ve found endless uses for them! When my daughters opened their first bank accounts they needed a safe way to keep all their information together, so I gave them one each, then when we bought seeds for the garden, there were some left so I needed a way to keep them safe too. Letters from friends and relatives were getting jumbled up with everything else so I used one to keep those together and guarantees for my purchases as well as manuals and leaflets needed a home too! The list is endless for home uses and in business they are priceless storage items for filing and employee records as well as many other applications. Our offer at the moment gives you an extra 73% off making the price for this pack of 25 just £9.99! I couldn’t recommend these wallets more highly, so why not grab yourself a bargain today and explore their many uses for yourself!

Today we have found you the most innovative new filing product on the Market. Snopake, a brand who took the market by storm in 1955, have developed an extraordinary range of products which they have named, the Polyfile. Available in many different varieties, 79’000’000 Polyfiles have sold since 1995! But what makes them so special? The Snopake Polyfile range truly is plastic filing at its very best. Snopake guarantee their customers that only the best materials and components are used to produce their portfolio of items, all of which have been designed to make your life so much easier. In fact, they boast such quality that their average product will last 3 times longer than their cardboard equivalent! The Polyfile range is Snopakes most popular filing product. Designed similarly to an envelope, these plastic storage wallets feature a pocket and flap which has the added bonus of a press stud closure.

Featured to your right is our Snopake Polyfile Ring Binder Insert.

• Secure Press Stud Closure
• Index 5 variant is a set of five RingBinder wallets with a unique, integrated indexing system
• CD1 wallet also allows for a CD to be stored in the integral pocket
• Clear
• Packed 5
• Index 5
• 22% Off!
• Just £7.43!

These smart, durable polypropylene files feature the Snopake press-stud closure and are multi-punched to fit most ring binders and lever-arch files. They have been designed based entirely on the popular Snopake Polyfile design and feature an exceptionally strong reinforced edge on the left hand side. You’ll find that just like the rest of the Polyfile range, these insert wallets are made from stylish clear ‘Superline’ presentation quality material. Perfect for filing and protecting all your un-punched documents, for the home and the office, these are great for storing pay slips, tax papers, family tree research files, birth certificates and other like items.

Plastic wallets are one of the most useful stationery items of all times. Typically found in most offices and even homes across the globe. However our orders for A4 plastic wallets are more frequently made by schools. A fantastic storage bag which is durable, weather resistant and portable whilst also being designed to specifically house documents flat; the plastic wallet is often found in the school bags and school trays of your very own children. Often referred to as ‘book bags’, these popular wallets are used in schools to transport reading books, letters and homework safely. With the addition of a small white label, such as an address label, these plastic wallets can be personalised for every child. Other common uses include storage for housing pay slips, medical cards, driving licence and documents, passports, birth certificates, notes from meetings, minutes, leaflets, vouchers and so much more!

Our INDX heavy duty A4 zip pouch is a perfect example of the ideal plastic wallet. Featuring;

• PVC pouches with side zip fastener and coloured head strip, for the collection of documents, vouchers etc
• Complete with inner pocket for index
• A4 Heavy-duty PVC
• 4 red, 4 blue and 2 yellow
• Internal Dimensions: 215 x 320mm
• Packed 10
• 24% Off!

With free delivery when you buy 2 packs or more, the advantages to these gems just keep mounting up. You can get your hands on these 10 zipper wallets for just £21.61, making a saving of £6.72!But that’s not all we have; Office 365 have a huge range from all kinds of brands, however INDX just so happen to be one of our most favourite for quality, durability and price. INDX have a great range of A4 wallets, perfect to be kept close at hand for the home and office. So if you’re tired of the standard manilla or cardboard wallet with a very un-secure fold over flap or elastic tie, then our A4 plastic wallets are the right option for you.

Coloured plastic document wallets provide a safe haven for your important documents and letters. Whilst keeping your paperwork safe, the plastic document wallets also double up as a perfect solution for filing. For every filing category, you choose an individual plastic wallet and either colour code them or use stickers to indicate which group is filed within. The sticker method is good when you are unable to find various coloured plastic folders. Plastic document wallets protect their contents and are formed with three sealed edges and sometimes a fold over top. The flap (if there is one) can be fastened to the front panel, by means of a zip fastener, a popper, elastic and various other closures.

A great example of our quality document wallets would be the Snopake Polyfile Pack featured to your right.

The Snopake polyfile pack features brightly coloured A4 document wallets which can be sealed by popper closure. The pack comes with 5 assorted colours, great for colour coding your filing. If 5 different colours are not enough however, the Snopake polyfile range extends to Snopake Polyfile Standard which is made up of another 5 different colours so you can extend to different filing categories within the Polyfile range. What’s more, with 22% off, you can afford to splash out; one pack of 5 wallets is just £5.52! So if you’re tempted to solve the filing needs of the entire office, why not take advantage of this fantastic offer and while you’re at it, qualify for free delivery?! Buy 8 of these packs and get free delivery!

The Snopake brand are known to consistently strive to bring top quality, stylish and innovative products to the market. They strongly believe they offer their customers a solution for every possible need, whether for office, home or school use. Every filing and presentation product is part of their unique product strategy, which is designed to ease all purchasing decisions and also satisfy the needs of their customers who might be looking for affordable products, not to mention trusted and premium quality products.

The Green Bit

As market leaders in the field, Snopake have driven the environmental agenda in relation to filing and presentation products with the introduction of a new dedicated range called Snopake ReBorn and the concept of ‘lifetime responsibility’.

Within this concept Snopake believe that the ReBorn products are Resource Responsible – each having been produced using a minimum of 70% recycled materials without compromising quality. ReBorn products are Environment Responsible – robust materials have been used to create versatile products that will last reducing the need for replacement, energy consumption, transport mile, etc. The Reborn range is also Consumer Responsible – each product being produced with a full 10-year guarantee as standard. In addition, Snopake offers a unique ‘end of life program’ to recycle the ReBorn products at the end of their lifecycle making them ultimately lifetime responsible.

There are so many different ways to file your paper work nowadays and I’d say that I’ve tried quite a few. Firstly I tried letter trays, but the cheap plastic trays weren’t up to it and where soon cracked, snapped and broken. Next I tried filing drawers, again I went for the plastic option, however with my being such a hoarder, these drawers just weren’t deep enough and were filled within 2 months! I then moved onto an expanding box file which contained many different compartments for my many different bills! This was ok, but the latch broke and it became very full and difficult to work with. So I rearranged my office so that I had room for a whole bunch of ring binder folders, one for each bill, child or commitment. I have a good solid hole punch at my desk, some back up plastic pockets/sleeves and some very neat looking ring binders, perfect for storing all my paperwork, separately and in order. When the paper work starts to get tired and tatty, I just pop them inside a plastic pocket, place it inside the relevant binder and leave it safe in the knowledge that it’ll be safe for many more years to come. For that extra bit of reassurance, you can always keep some vinyl reinforcement washers just in case your punched holes get torn.

If you’re looking for a good number of folders so that you can separate your paperwork into categories, we have a set of binders which would be ideal for you. Our Emgee PVC Ring Binders featured to your right have clear front pockets so that you can add your own designs or large labels to distinguish them from each other. They also have spine labels so that when you have them neatly put away, you can see which ones which. This fantastic set of 10 binders comes in an assorted pack containing one each of white, black, blue, red, green, yellow, purple, grey, orange and pink, helping to separate or categorise.

• Emgee Clear Cover PVC Binders
• Quality PVC ring binders with a clear pocket on the front and back cover for personalisation
• Clear ticket holder on spine for easy identification of contents
• Two-ring binders with 25mm ring size
• Size: A4
• Packed 10
• Assorted
• This is an Environmentally Friendly Office Product – Up to 50% Recycled
• 25% off – Now just £30.08!

Emgee, the manufacturers of these binders specialise in files and binders including Box Files, File Accessories, Lever Arch Files, Plastic Pockets, Presentation Ring Binders and Standard Ring Binders which are all available here at Office 365. With a huge variety of sizes and capacities, you’re sure to find the right filing solution for you. Emgee are part of the G.H. Neville group who won Spicers Supplier of the Year Award for exceptional support to the wholesale channel and have over the years won various awards for their overall support of the wholesaler trade.