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Clitheroe 22324 (Editorial), 22323 (Advertising). Burnley 22331 (Classified) —


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THE office equipment experts at Burnley Office Supplies have every reason to crack open the champagne and celebra­ te in style.


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After all, it’s not every company that reaches the magical film, mark in turnover, and even fewer can boast they have broken that barrier and gone on higher levels within a month.


But Burnley Office Supplies can.


Said company sales manager Mr David Boden: “We reached the magical million a month before the end of our financial year, on September 30th.”


“It is a fantastic achievement and it has taken seven years of hard work. It is a 30% increase on


last year and, as we expect further successes from our staff, our target is to increase that by 40% in the 1988/89 period.”


The company has been based in Burnham Trading Park, Burnham Gate, for most of its seven-year history, and from the early days the business has gone from strength to strength while maintaining a high standard of technical expertise and local appeal.


Now business has grown to such an extent that the firm is looking for bigger premises . . . but in Burnley, of course.


“We are bursting at the seams in here and looking for suitable premises to increase our sales and


storage areas,” added Mr Boden.


The company has been offered premises outside the town, but BOS is Burnley born and bred and is set to stay here as an act of good faith to local customers who have helped make the firm the suc­ cess it is today.


out of the town it is still a good nucleus to work from and Burnley is now a better place for busi­ ness to be, especially with the motorway links with the South and Yorkshire.”


Pledged company director Mr Albert Hardaker: “We started in Burnley and we intend to stay in Burnley. The main part of our business comes from the Burnley area. “Although we are expanding in all directions


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The company’s business is split three ways between computers, facsimilie machines or photocopiers, and office supplies.


oured BOS with the acco­ lade of being one of its top 10 UK desktop publishing centres of excellence.


It deals with Apricot com­ puters and last year the UK manufacturer hon


“We are a systems centre which means that we can sell multi-user components to increasingly larger organisations. We are now selling as many as 20 screens to all sorts of dif­ ferent companies. Instead of selling a stand-alone computer with one screen, we are selling systems to bigger companies.” said Mr Hardaker.


cially that the company really does stand head and shoulders above the rest.


BOS sales and office administrators (left, to right), Danusza Har­ greaves, Mary Cunnie and Sandra Kelly


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built-in networking, unique in 802S6 PCs, brings multi-screen solutions at a price you won't believe. Through to the mighty VX90QQ series. Harnessing up to 30 Intel 80386 microprocessors in parallel, they deliver over 100 MIPS o f pure power, without hesitation. Naturally all meet the existing and emerging world standards - from UNIX. MS-DOS and OS/2 to all mainline 4th generation languages and SQL database management systems. Apricot - nowhere in the world will youfmd computing so complete.


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rom desktop computing through to mainframe performance, there is now no greater power in computing.


Administration at the firm is totally computerised, right down to the monthly accounts and balance sheets, in a bid to show to customers how simple the changeover can be.


“We are not trying to sell somebody something xoc would not use ourselves,” said Mr Hardaker.


Apricot has just launched a new range of computers, the Qi series, the first British computer to use IBM’s new micro-channel architecture, and staff are delighted with the new model.


“It is the fastest personal computer around and pre­ sales demand is already establishing it in the mar­ ket,” said Mr Boden.


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THE BOS sales team (back, left to right), Mick Flynn, Chris Haworih, Steve Dodgson, Stuari Proctor, (front left to right), Karl Potts, Ray Stephenson and Glen Higson


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“And not jus t by a bit, but by a lot,” added Mr Hardaker.


than the Ricoh range stocked at BOS.


Ricoh is the biggest pro­ ducer of photocopiers and fax machines in the world. It is the number one firm in Japan and America and is e s tab lish in g i ts e l f as market leader in the UK.


them out when the paper supply is restored. Also,


10, 20, 60 and now the Ricoh Fax 70EC which cuts the time it takes to send a message by first scanning the original then making a copy and sending it out at any time of day to up to 100 customers.The machine will also store up to 53 A4 pages in its memory if paper runs out or jams, and will print


BOS sells a range of fax machines, fron the Ricoh


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the fax 70EC will send or resend messages if the line is engaged or if there is any interruption. If it is a multi-page document it will simply re-transmit those pages th a t are incomplete.


The firm also sells a wide range of Ricoh photoco­ piers.


“That companies like Ricoh and Apricot want to do business with us is a compliment to a firm of our size because they are national companies and usually deal with busi­ nesses considerably larger than ours. We may be small in physical size but not in scope,” said Mr Boden.


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Office supplies at the firm range from paper clips to a


complete range of office furniture, and BOS has 18,000 stock lines to draw on.


But one thing that really makes the firm stand out above the rest is the depth of experience it has to draw on.


Between them the 21 employees have clocked up 113 y e a r s , and th a t includes eight new recruits to the team.


Mr Hardaker, for exam­ ple, has 15 years behind him in the trade and is still learning new things about the business.


He said: “You do not need masses of people to work for you when you have years of experience. When we started the company we had to be Jacks of all trades and since we have


SOFTWARE design engineers Gary Broughton (left) and David Montgomery at one of the screens


all-round knowledge of the b u s in e s s e q u ipm e n t industry.


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“We are always looking at what is going to happen next in the market and for new products to sell to our customers."


Unlike many computer firms, BOS also carries out its own machine servicing.


“We have got about £30,000 worth of spare parts just for computers,” added Mr Hardaker.


As a lot of firms would straggle to buy a photoco­ pier or a computer in their first week of business and the firm has set up a rental scheme.


“ I t is b e t te r to lease instead of buying the equipment because it spreads the cost over the years and saves the cus­


tom e r t a x ,” said Mr Boden.


Speaking to the work­ fo r c e , you g e t the impression that BOS is on the crest of exciting times.


Trainee salesman Stuart Proctor said the whole


sales team worked very closely together.


And another glowing trib­ ute to the firm came from national sales manager for Ricoh Mr Kevin O’Mara. “The relationship between BOS and Ricoh has always been excellent,” he said. ‘


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SEPTEMBER was an average sort of month as far as weather was con­ cerned, with a short hot spell at the end of the first week, when a temperature of 76 d e g . F. was recorded.


13th and 20th was followed by the usual unsettled westerly type weathe with more than enough rainfall.


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seriously under-funded 1 and find it almost impossi- s ble to handle the strain of f ever-growing demands for ( help.


manager of the Ribble t Valley CAB, has given an \ assurance that, at least for l the present, her service 1 will continue to operate i effectively.


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being asked to deal with are more and more compli- | cated, requiring more staff ; time and resources to deal \ with them," she said.


our budget does cover our i needs. We are working t within that budget and 1 ( am happy that we are pro- ; viding a good service to i the community. “How much further the ;


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the cards at the moment will mean fundamental changes to people’s lives. “To cope with the new benefits system intro-


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