New Festival Flyer Trundles into the Shed

Well the good old festival flyer died on it’s little rubber rims after Jake K brought it back from Glastonbury last June. Maybe it was just telling us it didn’t want to leave the festival, or maybe it had cheap cider in it’s carbs, but whatever it was, the silly old sausage wouldn’t turn off when it got back to Bicester. We booted it, tweaked it, pulled stuff off it, but in the end we had to call out the local mechanic who pronounced it DOA. And ruling out the possibility that he was trying to pull an antiques-roadshow-style fast one (see hundreds of em missis, I’ll give you a tenner) we quickly flogged it on ebay and bought another. We were a little upset to see the back of the faithful old gal – but it’s probably true to say within about .4 miliseconds of the arrival of the new one, we’d forgotten about the old Merc and FF MkII was booked out for Glasters 2010. We have our sentimental moments at Webmart but this wasn’t one of them!

Webmart Point of Sale update

Jake checking out his packet

We’re always up for a challenge from our customers at Webmart,  and it looks like  The Point of Sale team  are putting on a great show for one of our leading retail clients. They challenged us to kit out 11 stores for the launch of their latest war-based videogame, gave us a budget  and an outline brief  and let our imaginations run riot. So being print managers, you’d be forgiven for thinking we’d get busy with Photoshop and make a stack of 8-foot tall cardboard standees. But you’d be wrong. As you can see in the photo, we waived some nylons and chocolate at a passing Chinook and got ourselves kitted out with cammo nets, helmets, webbing, jerry cans, bivvy bags, and lots of other odd-sounding stuff that’s very green and rough and tough. We came in under-budget and are looking forward to getting them in-store for launch where they should look awesome. And as soon as we have shots, we’ll post them here. Reports that Jake F spent the weekend dug-in and bivouacked in the Webmart car park are as yet unconfirmed (though probably true).

THE GREAT YELLOW SHED REFURB – DONE!

...and it's even brighter yellow on the inside!

Woohoo – no longer is the big Yellow Shed a dull old 80’s-tastic warehouse. After a refit which has cost literally pounds (mostly of it on yellow paint) our refurb is complete. We’re walking the walk with virtuous value vortex graphics adorning the walls (inside and out!) a small gym to keep bodies as fit as minds – and a couple of refitted showers and kitchen meaning Webmarteers now only need bring sleeping bags and pot noodles and they need never leave their desks again. Customers and Suppliers are welcome to pop round for a fresh coffee and gawp any time they like.

CAN’T WIN EM ALL (Grrrr)

Well we’ve won three awards so far this year so we shouldn’t grumble too much if we come runner-up in one of them. We shouldn’t, but we probably will. We were up for the Information Communications Technology Award at the Martin and Audrey Wood Enterprise Awards. No, to be honest, we’d not heard of the awards either but with close links to Oxford Uni Said Business School, they’re very well respected and we were, it’s fair to say, gutted at not winning. Hey ho. At the risk of being sore losers, we could’ve done with more than a 3 minute presentation to really convey why our IT was best – but such is life.

Maybe we’ll drag them up to the yellow shed before next year’s awards – then they’ll get it.