Refer a friend or colleague:
Each time you refer a friend or colleague who goes on to place an order with Arcadia, we will send you 75 points to redeem in
our rewards and recognition store*. Just let us know who you have referred or ask them to mention your name when contacting us.
*A new referral must not be a current Arcadia customer. Orders must value a minimum of £300.00 (ex VAT).
See our web site for full terms and conditions.
Offer valid until Dec 31st 2013
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Refer a friend or colleague:
Each time you refer a friend or colleague who goes on to place an order with Arcadia, we will send you 75 points to redeem in
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Near Field Communication (NFC) is a wireless communication technology similar to Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. It allows the transfer of data between two devices, such as a mobile phone and NFC tag. Typically, NFC is used to pass data from one device to the other.
Nine out of ten of the top mobile manufacturers have now adopted NFC. Apple's iPhone is the only major smartphone without NFC support.
Current applications for NFC include contactless payments, marketing and advertising uses, security and access control, product identification, location identification & mobile phone task launcher apps. Applications require a NFC enabled mobile phone to activate them.
Our NFC promotional product range of pens, mouse mats, coasters, badges, stickers, wristbands and key rings include a small internal NFC tag pre encoded with information or an action. The user simply touches the back of the phone against the promotional product to launch a URL, application or encoded service.
For the full range and more information contact our sales team sales@arcadiaonline.co.uk or call us on 0845 130 2620
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The Promotional Product Services Institute, (PSI) has issued the following open letter:
We address this urgent notice directly to you today to provide timely information to you as a PSI member. The European umbrella organisation of the pharmaceutical industry intends to pass a decision on 24/25 June banning any and all use of promotional products. It was only thanks to its good supplier relationship with the pharmaceutical industry that the PSI heard of this in good time. Even the associations who we, as the PSI, are a member of were only informed indirectly about the situation.
Meanwhile, the associations and the PSI have swung into action. The GWV immediately called a telephone conference during which all stakeholders coordinated their activities. Arguments were gathered to reason with the pharmaceutical industry to reverse its intention. On 16 May, the representatives of European associations (including GWW and PSI) will meet with representatives of the pharmaceutical industry in Frankfurt. On 23 May, GWW chairman Patrik Politze will have an informal meeting with one of the members of EFPIA in Berlin. Currently, investigations are also under way to find out about the positions held by individual member companies of that association. It may be assumed that the American companies active in Europe wish to ban any such use, in line with the American model. Once we have identified the suitable contacts, we must look for ways to raise the subject with them.
We urge anybody maintaining any contacts into any of those companies to bring about a dialogue between the marketing side and those in charge of association matters in those companies. It is vital to convey, through discussions, that this industry is unnecessarily depriving itself of a highly effective promotional tool. Unnecessarily, because giveaways are not viewed critically in any quarter – not in the media, not by the tax authorities, not by politicians. Quite the opposite: in election campaigning, politicians use millions of giveaways themselves. Furthermore, there are effectiveness studies done by very reputable market researchers proving very clearly that promotional articles are a highly effective advertising medium (documentation available from the associations and from the PSI).
All of us must proceed very diplomatically at this stage to avoid an outright rejection of any discussion at all from the pharmaceutical industry. Insults and insinuations are entirely counterproductive in this situation. This remark is meant for all those who may already have sent out “angry letters”. We are optimistic that we will succeed in bringing about discussions. At this stage, there is no way of telling whether these will be effective or not. However, the extreme secrecy with which the pharmaceutical industry has surrounded the issue is an indication that they intend to go through with this ban.
We at any rate will do everything in our power to prevent this. We should be very glad of any helpful contacts you may have. We are looking forward to your support and assistance.
We hope we were at least able to be of help to you by bringing you up to date on the state of activities.
Michael Freter
General Manager
PSI
The United Kingdom has of course previously banned the advertising of and use of promotional products for prescription pharmaceuticals and a voluntary ban exists in the USA.
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Abdul Latif Siddiqui, Textile and Jute Minister
A major fire at a garment factory in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka killed its managing director, a top police official and six others, officials said on Thursday.
Fire service officials said managing director of the Tung Hai Sweater factory Mahbubur Rahman and his friend Additional Deputy Inspector General of Police ZA Morshed were among the dead as the fire broke out on several floors of the 11-story building housing the factory and residential complex late last night.
“The casualty was less as the factory was closed when the fire broke out… the victims were having a meeting in the managing directors office,” a supervisor of the factory told reporters at the scene.
Fire officials said that apparently ignited from an electric short circuit, the fire broke out on the second floor of the building and quickly spread on the third and fourth floors where the factory was housed.
A doctor at the state-run Dhaka medical college hospital said they declared dead five people as they were brought to the facility while they appeared to have suffered also from suffocation caused by the fire.
The incident comes nearly two weeks after a building housing garment factories collapsed in Bangladesh, killing nearly 900 people.
Bangladesh has closed down 18 garment factories temporarily as part of its efforts to allay fears of international buyers and rights groups over safety and labour standards in the country’s beleaguered apparel sector.
“We will close down factories deemed to be dangerous,” Textiles and Jute Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui said in a news briefing yesterday. Siddiqui said among the closed factories 16 were in Dhaka and 2 in the south-eastern port city of Chittagong.
Siddiqui will head the new high powered committee constituted by the Government to monitor the working condition and welfare of the workers in the country’s readymade garment sector. At a meeting of the Cabinet, the proposal to appoint Mr. Siddiqui as head of the monitoring panel, instead of a state minister, was approved.
Speaking to media, Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said the committee members would visit all the RMG units in the country to oversee the working conditions and workers welfare in these units and present their report to the Government within next three months.
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ISO9001 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organisation needs to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide products that meet customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements.
ISO 14001:2004 was first introduced 1996 as a British Standard and requires organisations to have an environmental policy and action plan to manage their impact on their environment.
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