Scottish papermaker Tullis Russell, in partnership with exclusive UK distributor PaperCo, have produced a new promotional brochure featuring Advocate, their leading brand in the business communications sector.

Award-winning Welsh printer Colourprint UK has heralded the start of a new business year in 2008 by merging its two printing businesses.

The UK economy is set for a rocky year ahead, but 72 per cent of office supplies companies look surprisingly well placed to benefit, according to leading market analysts Plimsoll Publishing.

The BOSS Heart of England welcomes Edward Cheshire as their new Chairman.

Following the success of last year's event, The Va will be hosting its fifth annual conference at the London Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square, on Tuesday, April 22nd 2008. This unmissable industry event is suitable for everyone who has an interest in vouchers, gift cards and stored value solutions.

With 2007's planned alliance with the British Printing Industries Federation (BPIF) firmly in place and BOSS's relocation to London complete, what's the new year got in store for both BOSS and its membership?

Schools and colleges have a constant need for high-quality printed documentation. Administrators through to teachers need to develop marketing collateral, generate classroom displays, develop creative work plans and produce compelling documents for school open days and extra-curricular events. Also pupils need to see print-outs of their work on a regular basis. OKI Printing Solutions (OKI) identified this requirement in education and other verticals and as a result it commissioned a report with the cebr (centre of economics and business research).

Leading stationery manufacturer BIC® is launching a new range of stationery accessories to complement its existing writing, correction, colouring and marking products.

Sharp Electronics (UK) Ltd has launched the EL-W506B WriteView - and with 556 features and functions it's the only advanced scientific calculator students will ever need.

STABILO UK are declaring 2008 the "Year of the ‘s move easy"! kicking off as main sponsors of My Child magazine's Write a Letter Week, and culminating with a national TV advertising campaign during Back to School, as well as a mother's and children's press campaign during the year.

Two schools in the Winsford area were awarded prizes recently - having won national competitions with Pritt4schools products over the summer and Christmas periods.

Like traditional Blu-Tack, Blu-Tack Pink is a must-have for adults and children alike - in fact anyone who wants hassle-free sticking. Clean, safe and easy to use, it's perfect for a whole host of jobs, including displaying work, putting up posters, and mounting pictures. Whether at home, office or school, Blu-Tack, and now Blu-Tack Pink really is the super sticking essential! 

Children from a London school were amongst the first end-users to benefit from Océ's industry-leading sustainable printing initiative - Carbon Plus + - when they took their mock SAT exams from January.

It was with a positive business atmosphere that the three international consumer-goods fairs, Paperworld, Christmasworld and Beautyworld, closed their doors at Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre recently. Over the previous five days, 100,000 trade visitors from all over the world held meetings and placed orders with the 3,657 international exhibitors of paper, office supplies and stationery, festive decorations and fragrances, cosmetics and beauty accessories.

AF International, leading manufacturer of office cleaning products, recently unveiled its company-wide "Green" initiatives at Paperworld 2008. As well as launching the first extensive range of environmentally-friendly refill packs for popular products such as Screen-Clene, AF announced new schemes to reduce the impact its products have on the environment.

Tarifold, the world leading manufacturer of display systems, presented its new product offering at the Paperworld fair in Frankfurt, Germany. Many exciting new products were shown under the sign of innovation and ecology.

Fellowes, the leading provider of technology accessories and business machines, has unveiled a new line of products at Paperworld 2008. The products, which are designed to increase efficiencies in the working environment, include the latest Office Accessories: the Smart Suites^TM and Earth^TM range of environmentally-friendly desktop storage, a new line of rotary trimmers and guillotines, boasting Fellowes' SafeCut^TM technologies, as well as new additions to the binding and laminating range. 

Smead, a leader in filing and document management, was back at Paperworld with three unique ranges of exciting new products and solutions.

Talk Paper, one of the leading paper suppliers within the stationery industry, are to support the Stationery & Office Products Show in its first year. 

How many times have you wanted to lay your hands on an easy to reference tool, containing all the latest range, technical and print suitability information for a group of related products? Well, now you can with the McNaughton Family swatches.

Howard Smith Paper, part of the Howard Smith Paper Group, has announced the launch of Greencoat 55 Gloss and Silk, a new quality to add to its established market leading Greencoat environmental range. Greencoat 55 looks, feels and performs like a 100 per cent virgin fibre product. Sheets, CutStar and HSWO reels are readily available together with bespoke special sizes through the MySize service.

OMF International sends missionaries to support Christian movements in East Asia. With a turnover in excess of £4 million in gifts and legacies, the non-profit organisation has a 33-strong team based in the UK. Processing around 10,000 items of outgoing mail a month, it relies on Neopost for a speedy, efficient and cost-effective mailroom solution. 

As one of the world's leading producers of blacklead and coloured pencils, Staedtler has always been at the forefront of technical innovation in the manufacturing of quality writing and drawing instruments.