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When the global pandemic struck in 2020, we had long been working with Southern Health providing business supplies to its various sites. It was without hesitation that we stepped up our resources to help store, manage and provide an end user delivery solution for their PPE and medical products, resolving a massive challenge the Trust had in distributing essential stock as the pandemic progressed.
One in four of us will experience a mental health problem each year. The pandemic and the many challenges that it has caused everyone, have negatively affected many people’s mental health and elevated concerns for those already living with a mental illness.
In a bid to help combat climate change and sustain our environment for future generations, we have joined forces with an organisation called Carbon Footprint. With the help of Carbon Footprint we’re going to be offsetting our company’s carbon emissions – by planting trees within our local community.
For many people, working from home is a big adjustment and far from ideal. We believe that it's important to remind your people that although they may be out of sight, they are not out of mind. We’ve put together a number of well-being packages for employers to send to their teams – designed specifically to give a much needed boost to the mental and emotional health of those working hard from home.
Many of us work from home (WFH) occasionally, but that’s a very different beast to setting up a more permanent home office. Following the UK government’s advice to self-distance and self-isolate, for the vast majority, the need for a more permanent home office set-up has become a very sudden reality.
We delivered savings in the region of £2.5m over 5 years, amongst many other benefits for i2i by Citipost and its clients.
We’ve recently seen a huge growth in interest from clients who want to manage their tail-end spend better. Tail-end spend refers to the large volume of low value, unclassified transactions that aren’t strategically covered by corporate contracts.
Where the NHS Nationally Contracted Products (NCP) initiative is focused on driving incremental savings at sub category levels, our ‘bigger picture’ approach is focused on reducing lifetime consumption by reducing volumes.
If you wince when you review your annual spend on office supplies, then rest assured you’re not alone. The majority of enterprises and organisations, irrespective of their size, are overspending. The problem is most don’t know how to reduce their costs and where to start.
Clares awarded Babcock International Limited a 3 year contract to consolidate office product spend over many different product areas with a minimum contract value of over 12.6 million.