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Keter focuses on its people to boost wellbeing


Keter, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of home and garden products, is launching a group-wide challenge in the UK to help with employee wellbeing. Employees from both the Banbury and Redruth sites are being encouraged to take part in a ‘Reach for the Moon’ challenge, setting out to walk 240,000 miles – the equivalent of 480,000,000 steps by 31 December 2021. The aim of the activity is to help employees enjoy some time out, to exercise during their working day and to benefit from the positive impact of being outdoors. Everyone taking part is using a fitness tracker to take on mini challenges and monitor progress individually and as a company. With reports of an increase in mental health issues during the past 12 months which are having an impact on people’s working lives, Keter


is taking action


as part of a pledge to ensure everyone in the company feels valued, safe, and can contribute to the fullest of their potential.


Flooring industry counts down to catch up, at CFJLIVE


The flooring industry is preparing for CFJLIVE -


its


first official event in over a year - which takes place on Thursday 1 July. The free-to-attend global exhibition is the UK industry’s first ever virtual event, bringing together over 100 global exhibitors. It will be broadcast live


from a main


stage - at FITA’s training centre in Loughborough - and from exhibitors’ showrooms, offices and factories around the world. Fast registration can be accessed now at www.cfjliveexpo.co.uk


event for all industry


- contractors,


Billed as a ‘must-attend’ sectors of the flooring and


including retailers


specifiers, distributors, facility managers, housing associations and designers – CFJLIVE will bring


together the industry


in real time; crucially, visitors will be able to connect, share knowledge and discuss issues with industry experts within live meeting rooms, and via chat and individual meeting requests. The main stage will present live demonstrations and, within the


highlights will include live factory tours


from exhibitors’ CFJLIVE will air global


production plants, new product launches and many technical talks.


between


2-7pm on Thursday 1 July. On arrival, visitors will enter the main stage and a list


of


exhibition rooms, key events will


include an sustainability forum.


industry-first Other


session rooms, enabling them to move around the event. Within exhibitor session rooms, mini- events will be hosted, including live seminars from technical experts, demonstrations and factory tours, with audio, video and text feeds. To find out more, please contact Stuart Bourne at CFJ at stuart. bourne@kick-startpublishing. co.uk and visit


website www.cfjliveexpo.co.uk AMES UK demonstrates its commitment to people


AMES UK has announced the appointment of Nicola Sykes to the newly created role of HR Director. Nicola joins the business with a strong track record of developing talent and building strong organisation networks that bring teams together and drive business performance.


Nicola spent her early career


in the retail and food sectors, including several years at Morrisons and also Greencore, the world’s largest sandwich manufacturer. Nicola brings a wealth of experience from various FMCG, retail, logistics, public sector and manufacturing environments, which have proven invaluable in


the challenge to bring the business units of


AMES UK together. True Temper, Kelkay, La Hacienda and Apta are all essentially successful family businesses and Nicola is relishing the opportunities in bringing them all together into a single, strong, harmonised team. Her strategy includes elements of organisational change,


talent


employee engagement and health & wellbeing.


NEWS EXTRA


Perry relaunches PerryPack and brand new website


In unprecedented times for an industry that, like many others, has been derailed by the pandemic; A. Perry has faced the supply and demand challenge for its hardware stock head on.


When a sudden spike and increase in consumer demand was met with a radical scarcity of supply with much of the stock being produced in China and India, Perry relied on one of its core strengths and USPs to ensure consistency of supply to its customers. With it’s own manufacturing facility, A. Perry has been in the enviable position of upholding their stock levels and is now further realigning its offering to keep up with the ever-evolving customer needs with a relaunch of its core product offering. The past


few months have allowed


the team at Perrys to analyse its existing prepack range and they feel that now is the time to re-launch its more consolidated offering back out to its customers, the PerryPack. Guy Perry, Managing Director at A. Perry said: “PerryPack is a focused, offering made up of almost 400 SKU’s of the best-


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selling prepack gate, shed and fencing hardware; as well as general ironmongery, chains, ropes, fixings and fasteners. All in fully branded, retail friendly packs, housed in their own branded display units to suit the space available, the PerryPacks are already proving a big hit with stockists, highlighting just how well our team fully understands the market and their needs. “To be able to not only maintain our stock levels during the crisis, but to actually re-launch a range to capitalise on the demand we are receiving is testament to the investment we made in our own hardware manufacturing facility where we have full autonomy over our supply chain. “It hasn’t been easy and we have of course faced our own issues such as the fluctuation of raw material costs, freight pricing and availability as well as staffing consistency; but we are confident that whilst for many the worse is yet to come, we are in pole position over our direct


at


development,


competition and we hope this is welcome relief to those trades whose current suppliers are falling short.”


The launch of the new PerryPack range coincides with the wider launch of


new www.perrytrade.co.uk website which has been years in the making.


Offering a


new and unique customer experience, the easy to navigate website has improved and intuitive search functionality, rapid category


the


ordering and clear and concise transparency of stock availability. Completely in sync with the new £1.2million robot automation system installed at Perry’s, the pick and pack timings on customer orders is also drastically reduced meaning a seamless transaction for the customer.


For further details, please visit www.perrytrade.co.uk


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