Cuddly Toys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday 12th November......



We have some animals in the office and we are looking for people to adopt them!


Can you give one a home?

Operators Chair Offers November 2009

We have some fantastic operators chair offers this month!



Click here to see them

Smoke and Mirrors of Pricing

We obviously speak to a lot of clients, existing and potential, during the course of our working week. There are two common competitors that we regularly analyse against as part of our 'Purchasing Health Checks', and we consistently find some quite horrific pricing and trading policies!

Our friends at Lyreco stand out ......... First of all we regularly find that they quote prices that are way below the cost price of even manufacturing the items! Why is that we wonder?

Well.... it's plain to see that these items are very regularly used items that people will be buying regularly - the kind of items that they will know the prices of! The methodology is that by selling these very regularly used items as 'loss leaders'they will attract business. All we ask is that people sit back and think about it....... Why would you sell items at or below the cost price?

Well we regularly find the reasons why!

Perhaps its because it hides the fact that their RRP's ( i.e. products that attract a standard across the board discount are consistently well above manufacturers recommended prices ! Just recently we have had access to an analysis of 800 Lyreco items to compare the retails to our own...... and we found........ buying one of everything at harrisongreen retails cost £21819. Buying the same quantity at Lyreco retails cost £31091..... a big difference really! So in other words a customer receiving a 30% discount may be paying more than we would charge BEFORE discount!

An example of this recently was where a client was tempted away by a saving of 25p a ream on their copier paper....... however....... a Hewlett Packard toner cartridge they regularly buy was priced at £133, against our price of £71.50. Or put another way..... unless thet bought more than 246 reams of copier paper, the purchase of just one of those HP cartridges would mean they spent more!

This approach to pricing is what we call smoke and mirrors! Its just an illusion!

Twitter .... Its All The Rage.......

Well this whole social networking thing is really taking off...... Twitter is suddenly becoming the thing to use!

You can follow us at www.twitter.com/harrisongreen

Follow us for regular Twitter only promotions and offers!

Prize Winners!

Here's a picture of a very happy Mark West of Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation. Mark was presented with a Phillips DVD player We ran a Referral promotion a few months ago...... just refer someone else to us, and we put your name into the hat ( well actually it was an empty copier paper box!) and we drew out the winner which was Mark!

Another winner of a Phillips DVD player was Emma Chapman of Welland Enterprise.

harrisongreen were exhibiting at the B2B Event in Grantham. This trade event was organised by SKDC to promote and help develop local trade. With a good number of exhibitors attending it was a worthwhile event. We ran a business card draw..... first out of the hat (copier box) was Emma.

Emma will be using the DVD player at Welland Enterprise offices where it will be a very useful addition to their meeting room equipment

Executive Chairs - Leather!

Well the year is flying by soooo fast! This month we have just a few of these great leather executive Chairs left........ ideal for office and home office use! Great black leather chair with a quality heavy duty chrome base.

The arms are chrome steel, with a pad for additional comfort. The chair also has a reclining action and is adjustable for body weight.

We only have a few left now - they've gone pretty well...... Call us now if you'd like one. Only £49.99

Tash for Cash!

As many people know, Bob Taylor and Lee Alexander have been raising money for the Sue Ryder Care Charity.

The Peterborough branch of Sue Ryder ran the Tash for Cash campaign in January....... object being that the guys went for the whole of January to see who could gain the most impressive moustache!

The guys have taken a lot of stick by family, friends and colleagues yet they have stuck to their guns and battled through, leaving the razor unused and growing the best tash they possibly can.

We are all very proud of Bob and Lee for taking part and have been astounded by their dedication to the cause. As well as raising money and awareness for Sue Ryder Care - Thorpe Hall Hospice, these chaps have brought back in fashion everyone's favourite; the tash!

The guys raised over £150 to the cause!

Heres their efforts! Lee has the slightly ginger 'Gringo' look, whilst Bob is sporting the very greying almost invisible look!

A Happy New Year!

First Of All A Very Happy New Year!

Joe Stride of GExpro in Guildford has certainly had a very nice start to his new year as he was winner of our Prize Draw on our Christmas Battleships promotional day! We love it when our lucky customers really appreciate their prizes.

Naturally like everyone we really hope that 2009 will be better than everyone fears. All businesses really need to control their costs at these times, and we can really help with that.

We have many years experience of office products, and can offer really useful advice about how you can save costs.

Our Cost Reduction Audit is a very useful thing to do. We know from our experience many areas where our clients can make direct and indirect savings. One of our specialists can visit you and look at all areas of your purchasing, including office supplies, printer consumables, packaging, print and many others.

We will produce a summary for you and show you some real areas of savings. We often surprise our customers at just what kind of savings we may well be able to find you!

Why not give us a call and let us do our work? You really have nothing to lose!