So there I was, the self made King of Tea in the Falkland Islands! I slunk off to my bunk at the Officers’ Mess and stopped by the pigeon holes to check mail. A single white envelope addressed to me, no stamp. In it was a single tea bag – news traveled fast and I […]
There is a story to tell here: it is about provisioning. It is also about so called, ‘Just in Time’ logistics. What inspires this post is a recent challenge which has led me to review all I know and have experienced about provisioning. You see I have a rather interesting, brain aching challenge. It started […]
Late in 2014 it was apparent that with the rate of growth we were experiencing that we would run out of linear space in our warehouse. We moved in to this unit at the Westbridge Industrial Estate late in 2013 and used only half the space. It was a bit on the damp side but […]
The next 3 weeks will see parents frantically searching for all those bits and pieces needed for the new school term. These days it seems as if each school has its own list of ‘things to get’ but there are some products which are rock solid, ‘everyone needs them’ type products. All school children need […]
Here is a question that has absorbed many hours of my time since I started the quest of establishing M&G stationery here in the UK, How do folk choose a pen or pencil from the plethora of brands and types available? Our journey with M&G Stationery started by selling pens. Anyone who has sold pens […]
Who needs erasable ink? Well magicians for one! But seriously, writing that can be erased has been around for decades with the standard HB pencil and rubber type eraser. Dependable certainly but not the same as ink. Erasable ink pens have been around for a few years now but they do have a rather more checkered […]
M&G’s latest erasable gel pen, the i-erase II, arrives on Monday in blister pack form. We now have this product in 3 colours, both packs of 12 and blister packs with single pens. Styled here in the UK for the UK market, this pen is the first true collaboration between M&G in Shanghai and M&G […]