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Newsletter | December 2014

Editorial Finally it’s December, and that means the festive season is upon us! To celebrate the occasion, we have exciting promotions and events lined up just for you. Following the success of last year’s Xmas staff sale, we are having an Xmas sale this year too.

Not only that, a small Xmas party will be held on Wednesday and there will be a special sale during the party. Want to know more? Well, read on to find out!

proudly say that with your support, today Ink is where we want it to be and we will keep improving it with every new issue. Please keep reading Ink and keep the suggestions coming. Your support and feedbacks are invaluable to us, and please keep promoting Pelikan’s activities wherever you are!

With this December issue, we have completed a year of Ink Newsletter. Looking back at the very 1st issue, we had a vision of making Ink an effective communication channel for Pelikan staff. We can

Let me be the first to wish all of you a very Merry Xmas & a Happy New Year 2015!

Phikyin Loo

Yours sincerely,

In a Bl ts News/Even Marketing Souverän Sets For this Xmas, there are 3 promotions running for Pelikan’s fine writing products, exclusively at the MO Shop, Mandarin Oriental KL. Spread the word!

Get a Souverän M800 at a promo price of RM1,280 & M400 at RM880. Comes with a special gift box each. Valid until 31 December 2014. Exclusively at MO Shop, Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur.

The Classic 205 set of fountain pen and ball pen in heart shaped gift box at RM500. The perfect Xmas gift! Valid until 31 December 2014. Exclusively at MO Shop Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur.

M101N Tortoise Shell Red Special Edition The new M101N Tortoise Shell Red Special Edition fountain pen, now only RM1,500 for this Xmas promotion. Valid until 31 December 2014. Exclusively at MO Shop Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur.

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Times Bookstore Happy Holid

Our partner, Times Bookstore is having their Happy Holiday Promotion for their members this Christmas season. They are offering a selection few of Pelikan & Herlitz products at 20% discount. The promotion ends 4 January 2015.

Pelikan Pop-Up is well into its festive spirit. It’s now offering 2 super promotions for Pelikan & Herlitz products, Christmas Cheer & New Year Office Promo.

Christmas Cheer Tis the season. Get 20% off when you buy Herlitz school bags and its accessories at Pelikan Pop-Up, The Gardens Mall. This Christmas promotion is valid until 31 December 2014.

New Year Promo New year, new stationery for the office! Get 20% discount for all Pelikan & Herlitz office products. Want more? Buy 5 items or more, you’ll get another 10% off! This promotion is exclusive to Pelikan Pop-Up, The Gardens Mall. Valid until 31 January 2015.

AEON BIG & Mydin Back to School Promo Our Back to School (BTS) promotion is getting into another gear. For every weekend for the month of December, our promoters will promote the “Experience New Worlds” campaign to customers at selected AEON Big & Mydin outlets. They will be giving free samples and introduce our BTS products and contest to the customers there.

The outlets are: AEON BIG Subang Jaya Kepong Ampang Wangsa Maju Mid Valley

MYDIN Subang Jaya Chow Kit Sinar Kota Selayang

Back to School Adverts

For December, the online advertisement for our Back to School promotion has started. The advertisement is being done through Google Network and Facebook so you’ll be seeing our Back to School banners promoting the Experience New Worlds contest when you go online. We are also advertising in Nanyang’s Bulanan Pelajar magazine December issue. Check them out!

Big Bad Wolf Book Sale Herlitz Bags in Expat Education Herlitz school bags range is advertised in The Expat Education, an annual guide to international education in Malaysia. The advertisement is a 2-page advert featuring a full page poster and a full page advertorial.

Our partner, Winsin Stationery, is participating at the Big Bad Wolf Book Sale held at MIECC the Mines until 16 December 2014. They will carry our Back to School products and the Herlitz school bags. Their booth can be found at the 1st floor of the venue.

Pelikan Art Battle is approaching its final stage. One finalist is already confirmed, Maria Camila from Colombia.

She will face either Marie from Germany or Polina from Argentina. Do vote for your favorite and watch them battle it out to be the ultimate champion of Pelikan Art Battle. Visit www.facebook.com/pelikan.international to cast your vote. Winners are determined by the amount of ‘Like’ they receive.

Pelikan Art Battle

Product Features: Pelifun Pack Pelifun pack is a special Pelikan Back to School set which includes; • 12 coloured pencil • 2B pencil (x2) • Eraser AS30 • Sharpener • Ruler 15cm • Pelifix glue stick 10gm Available at major hypermarkets and supermarkets and selected Pelikan partners.

RSP: RM15.90/pack You are eligible to enter the Experience New Worlds contest when you buy a Pelifun pack. Experience New Worlds contest is an online colouring contest offering prizes up to RM7,000 in cash and Pelikan products. The contest starts on 1 November 2014 until 31 January 2015. For more info, visit www.pelikan. com/kids and select Malaysia as your country.

Office Set The office set put together all your office stationery need in one compact set. The set includes; • Erasable highlighter • Stick pro • Power gel pen • Push mechanical pencil • Blanco fancy roller • Pelifix glue stick 10gm • Graphite lead 0.7mm RSP: RM16.90/set

My.pen Style Nicewriter Introducing the new my.pen style nicewriter.

• Available in 3 attractive colours.

• Three grips with high-quality calligraphy nibs.

• Top-class ink ow system prevents blots and keeps ink from drying up.

• Ergonomic triangular grip zone for left- and right-handers.

RSP: RM54.90/set

Newsletter | September 2014

My.pen Style Fountain Pen Introducing the new my.pen fountain pen.

• Available in 4 colours.

• High quality iridium-point nib for left- and right-handers.

• Top-class ink ow system prevents blots and keeps ink from drying up.

• Ergonomic triangular grip zone for left- and right-handers.

RSP: RM34.90/pc

My.pen Style Rollerball Pen Introducing the new my.pen style rollerball pen.

• Available in 3 attractive colours.

• Top-class ink flow system prevents blots and keeps ink from drying up.

• Ergonomic soft-touch grip zone for left- and right-handers.

• Appealing mix of materials.

RSP: RM29.90/pc

Article

“So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you!” ― Charles Dickens.

Tis the season to be charitable. It is important to teach our young generation the importance of giving and how to be charitable to others in need.

How to do that? Our Link to the World article this issue explores the ways to inspire your child to be a philanthropist at heart. This article is written by Steve Waller and is featured in Raising Small Soul website.

Children and Charity Encouraging your child to take an interest in charity from an early age not only benefits which ever worthy cause grabs their attention, but can also play a massive role in boosting their own personal development. You might think sparking your child’s interest in charity will be difficult; after all, many charities work to try and eradicate problems of an

‘adult’ nature that many think of as being beyond a child’s grasp.

Admittedly, the sense of empathy that leads most adults to make charitable donations depends on them being able to understand the context of other people’s suffering and imagine themselves in such a position. Children can find this difficult, given their limited frame of reference for comprehending the world around them.

However, I’ve always been inspired by children’s keenly developed sense of injustice. As annoying as it is to hear repeated moans of “but it’s not fair!” over trivial issues such as bed times, a child’s natural desire for justice can be used to divert attentions away from selfish concerns, towards the plight of the genuinely needy.

Newsletter | September 2014 that most kids think of Christmas as being all about them. Indeed, it is very hard to resist encouraging this by spoiling your kids and experiencing their innocent joy vicariously. Encouraging them to see the holiday in a bigger context helps them adjust to the idea they are a part of a world that extends beyond their own existence.

Normalize Giving For us to become truly committed to anything it needs to become part of our everyday routine. Children are, naturally, more flexible in their routines than adults.

Any parent can tell you how something can be a matter of life and death to a child one week, then completely forgotten about by the next. Having said this, the ideas we pick up as children have the potential to stay with us forever.

Therefore, it is important to try and make giving to charity feel like a normal thing. A great way of doing this is to encourage your child to give a portion of the regular allowance they earn from doing chores to a charity.

In any case, when giving your child an allowance, it can be a good idea to help them draft up a little budget to decide how much they want to spend on small treats and how much they want to save towards something big. You might try and get them to include a good cause in this budget.

Celebrate Charity You can go one step further than this by making charity a central part of the special occasions your child looks forward to, such as Christmas. It is very easy to work charity into your fun family traditions.

For example, in the run up to Christmas you could set up a routine of clearing the kid’s rooms, picking out old toys that they no longer need and donating them to charity. They’ll associate this with the magic of the season, and, if you remind them that, after all, they’re making room for new toys, they can still see the sacrifice involved as something exciting.

As a parent I’ve found this has a pleasing double effect.

For one thing the kids come to understand that there are people out there having a tougher time of it and are pleased to help out truly needy kids. Secondly, as a side effect of this realization they appreciate their own gifts all the more.

As children don’t really have the means to go out and buy gifts for other people and, because they tend to receive so many gifts themselves, it is natural enough

Empower Kids to Give Of course, encouraging kids to do good deeds isn’t all that useful if they don’t understand why it is good.

Children pick up their moral sensibility from their parents and, despite the fact that every young child’s favorite phrase is “why?”, they often do not question the ethical code they inherit.

Obviously, this is a good thing to a large extent.

Helping a four year old through an existential crisis is a challenge for any parent! However, it is good for a child’s moral development not to simply see ‘good’ and ‘bad’ as arbitrary labels you, or another figure of authority have decided on.

Getting a child to choose which charity they’d like to contribute to is a good of way getting them to realize their own beliefs. Picking a charity will make a child think about what makes a cause worth contributing to, rather than simply chalking it down as a good deed without thinking about it.

Getting Involved in the Community Charity events offer a good chance for kids to interact with their peers and get involved in the community whilst learning about collaborative efforts. Even something simple like a bake sale will cover these areas whilst being fun, engaging and involving responsibility.

Encourage your children to get involved in, or perhaps even introduce, charitable activities to the social clubs they attend, such as their softball team or dance class.

If you to are involved in the club it can provide the kids

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with a great opportunity to take matters into their own hands. You can consult them on their own fund raising ideas and give them a large role in the organizing of the events. This will allow children to take ownership of their actions.

This is important for children, as without this sense of ownership they will take less sense of fulfillment from their positive actions. It can also one of the factors behind children‘s misbehavior. If children are always simply being told to do the right thing and exactly how to do it, they may have to resort to naughtiness simply for the feeling of having done something for themselves.

Preparing for the Future In conclusion teaching kids about charity at an early age can help develop a sense of ethics, budgeting, independence, organizational skills and can even be a start to developing a great CV (many colleges look to see how involved candidates have been in extra-curricular community services as part of their admissions processes). If it involves events such as sponsored runs charity can even improve your child’s fitness!

Given all these different areas that giving to charity touches on, it really is a great way to help your children become conscientious citizens who, hopefully, will grow up realizing there’s more to philanthropy than tax breaks.

Guest post by The full article can be found at http:// raisingsmallsouls.com/children-and-charity/

p! t’s u a h W HO HO HO! Xmas is back and that means the most awaited Pelikan Xmas staff sale is back! Starting from now until 31 December, you can get Pelikan, Herlitz and Geha’s products at unbelievable prices.

You don’t want to miss this. See for yourself what products on offer, view the catalogue at this link : http://issuu.com/pelikanmy/docs/x_mas_cheer_ catalogue_fa_pbp/1.

To make your purchase, contact our customer service personnel Mr Vincent or Ms Irene.

Xmas staff sale 2014

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We have two new staff joining us this month, Ms Chan Yee Han, Sales Executive PASB (yeehan. chan@pelikan.com.my) and Ms Yap Sei Chuan, Assistant Manager – Group Risk Management & Internal Audit (seichuan.yap@pelikan.com.my).

Please extend your usual warm welcome and support to them.

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