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Comax UK launches industry leading new ecommerce and account management website

Comax UK, one of the largest independent wholesalers in the south, is supporting its catering, janitorial and care customers with the launch of a new website featuring over 25,000 products and new time saving functionality.

The new Comax website offers many new user-friendly features including easy quote request and account self-management tools along with budgeting and manager approval options.

The features have been developed to provide a straightforward ordering and account management system that meets the demands of businesses, from complex multisite organisations to smaller independent outlets.

For almost 30 years Comax has been a trusted, reliable supplier delivering to Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, Surrey and surrounding areas with its own large fleet of vehicles. For businesses outside these areas, deliveries are available by courier. Local delivery is free on orders over £50.

Find out how Comax could help your business today; visit comaxuk.com or call 01202 684111.

Email contact: sales@comaxuk.com

Hart for Business launches new inward investment website

Hart for Business, an economic development function managed by Hart District Council, has launched a new website to inform and signpost businesses to key information and advice.

We want Hart to be at the forefront when businesses are either thinking of starting up, relocating or growing.

The website, www.hartforbusiness.co.uk, will help to raise Hart’s profile and encourage businesses to invest in, or relocate to, the district. It also helps to signpost and inform local businesses to help them grow.

Did you know that Hart has: ¾ Excellent transport links and connections by road, rail and air to key cities and ports; ¾ Access to a highly educated and skilled workforce; ¾ Vibrant town centres; ¾ Been voted one of best places to live in the past? For any enquiries, please email

economic.development@hart.gov.uk

The south’s leading supplier in portable site accommodation expands its fleet to over 1,700 units

Established in 1975, Philspace Ltd has grown its welfare fleet to meet the current climate.

When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit the UK, the need for welfare facilities on site became essential to ensure that building developments could continue to go ahead as planned whilst keeping site workers as protected as possible. Director, Tim Philip, said: “Not only were we able to assist development companies on site, we also supplied welfare units to local hospitals and healthcare centres to provide additional working space. Our welfare units are serviced weekly as part of the contract so guarantees facilities are kept clean and hygienic”.

Philspace provide a range of static or towable welfare units as well as offices, secure storage units, fencing and self-storage.

Visit our website for more information at www.philspace. co.uk or contact the team on 02380 223333 or enquiries@

philspace.co.uk

Winchester PR firm proves Soundbite offers more than soundbites

Winchester’s 360 integrated PR has repositioned corporate events company Soundbite to develop fresh impetus following the doldrums of lockdown.

As a supplier of audio-visual services, Soundbite had an internationally famous client list like Epsom Derby, The Brits and Philips as well as many regional and local companies. However, the corporate events industry was all but wiped out by the pandemic.

Owner Steve Lucas says, “We were hard hit by cancellations throughout 2020 and only survived because we were already experienced in running sustainable, virtual events. I knew we needed fresh thinking to drive the business forward as the economy starts to open up in 2021.”

Soundbite has used the quiet time to expand its services to offer total project management for conferences and events. 360 integrated PR has defined Soundbite’s messaging to support new visual branding, prepared the marketing strategy and written a video script, copy for two websites and sales proposal documentation.

Steve Lucas comments, “360 delivered all we needed quickly, professionally and gave us some flair to our marketing. And it certainly has had an impact – we had our first enquiry from a large local authority within 10 minutes of our new event voting systems website going live.”

If your business needs communications planning, training and copywriting, contact 360 integrated PR on 02381 845025 or its website.

Southern Co-op pledges £50,000 for Solent apprenticeship fund

The regional co‑operative has become the latest organisation to join a growing list of supporters of the Solent Apprenticeship Hub’s ‘Transfer to Transform’ initiative.

Transfer to Transform encourages large employers to pledge their unspent levy funds to cover the costs of apprenticeship training for smaller businesses.

A total of £1,375,000 has now been raised to boost apprenticeship activity across the Solent.

Linda Masterman, Diversity & Inclusion Manager at Southern Co-op, which operates food, funeral and coffee services across the south of England, said: “It’s really important that we all come together to support each other as we recover from the impacts of the pandemic.

“Two years since we started offering apprenticeships, more than 80 of our colleagues have taken up the opportunity so this is a great initiative enabling smaller companies to offer similar benefits to their own employees.”

Southern Co-op is the eighth large employer to pledge support to the Transfer to Transform scheme and join other employers such as B&Q, Utilita, ExxonMobil, Coopervision and more.

Over £1m of the £1,375,000 raised has already distributed to SMEs across the Solent region but there is still a large amount of funding available for businesses across the Solent region for apprenticeship training.

To find out more about the Transfer to Transform scheme, visit www.solentapprenticeshiphub.com/transfer-to-transform. Or alternatively email hello@solentapprenticeshiphub.com