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Laver’s on theexpansion trail intothe Olympic heartlandIt has announced that it is todevelop a major newdistribution depot atRainham, East London, inclose proximity to many ofthe new facilities beingconstructed for the 2012London Olympic Gameswhere it aims to supplymaterials for new buildings.The multi-million pound facility is anaddition to Laver’s ever expandingTimber World network and will createup to 40 new jobs. It comes in thewake of Laver’s recent managementbuy-in.Integrated Support securesrecord breaking successOCS Integrated Services, part of OCSthe UK’s largest property supportgroup, has announced a recordbreaking£19 million mark for newbusiness gains in 2007.In total 46 new catering sites have been added tothe portfolio, including group contracts at HMRevenue and Customs and at the Bristol and BathMOD sites working with Debut. Other newbusiness and industry clients include the tyre giantPirelli, Welsh Joint Education Committee, AlbertoCulver, The Theatre Royal in Bath and EpsomPlayhouse. The healthcare team have scooped aprestigious contract at The Royal Free Hospital inLondon.OCS Integrated Services managing director GrahamGilbert said, “This is an outstanding achievement bythe whole team. It takes our business into a newThe new depot in New Road,Rainham, will see the conversion ofan existing building whereby Laver’scan supply the Thames corridor, EastLondon, Kent and Essex areas. Fromthe summer, the depot will have acustomer facing Call Collect facility.Managing Director Andrew Laver said:“Rainham is the next stage in theexpansion plans for the group andprovides us with an ideal base toprovide a first class service acrosssouth east England and the capital.”The £110m turnover Timber Worlddivision has grown to become one ofthe largest and most respected timbermerchants in the UK with 13 branchesacross the country, stocking a widerange of softwoods, hardwoods, sheetmaterials, laminates, joinery products,kitchens and building products fornationwide delivery or Call Collect. Inaddition, Timber World offers a widerange of ancillary services includingmachining, panel cutting, timbertreatment, CNC Routering, fabricationand roof truss manufacture.Reader Reply No: 111024market sector with the £3.5 million perannum MOD contract. Peopleunderstandably have increasinglydiverse and high expectations of foodprovision in the workplace, hospitalsand public buildings. We as providerstake this into account and have setnew standards for high quality food,freshly cooked and presented in a stylewhich reflects contemporary cuisine.”Graham congratulated his teamssaying, “As the year went on we clearlystruck a momentum of success ininterpreting the needs of clientssecuring business from our majorcompetitors by developing tailoredcatering solutions based around ourhighly successful brands Culture Café, Eligo, JustDeli and Foodhouse. All of this success was backedby an enormous operational effort; in the space ofjust five weeks, our teams had managed to open 23of our 46 new sites.”OCS’s new Culture Café brand has beenimplemented in 14 of the 43 new sites. It wascreated to meet the diverse multi-cultural tastes ofclient workforces including innovative menus able tosuit Asian, Muslim and Caribbean diets - in somecases all in the same contract.OCS Integrated Services uniquely links all thesupport services offered by the OCS group. It breaksdown the conventional barriers of skills and servicesto provide a dedicated, stand-alone resource tailoredacross all disciplines yet delivered through a singlecontact, single invoice structure.Reader Reply No: 111065businessKonica Minolta wins placeon OGCbuying.solutionsframework agreementKonica Minolta BusinessSolutions (UK) Ltd andseven other suppliers havebeen awarded a frameworkagreement withOGCbuying.solutions tosupply photocopiers,multifunctional products andservices; print room andmanaged services.This new framework agreement canbe accessed by government bodies(central, regional and local), health,education and other public sectoragencies. Also included on theOGCbuying.solutions frameworkagreement will be Konica Minolta’srange of software solutions fordocument workflow management. TheOGCbuying.solutions frameworkagreement is effective from 1 March2008 for two years.The current Konica Minolta bizhubMFP line up ranges from an entrylevel13ppm (print per minute)multifunctional system through to a105ppm production print system forhigh-speed commercial printapplications. The company is theleader in the crucial growth market forcolour multifunctionals with a marketleading 34.9 per cent share of the UKcolour market (not including colourcapable systems), according to thelatest independent research figurespublished by Infosource.Reader Reply No: 111077Powering intoWales……Power Electrics (PE), one of theUK’s largest Independentgenerator specialists, has opened asale, hire and service centre at a 1.5acre site on Abergarw Trading Estatein Bridgend.Andy Pullen from PE commented “We areemploying 15 new staff from the local communityon the site and are confident these purpose builtfacilities will enhance our sales and serviceoperations in Wales”.PE, who were recently acclaimed as both Bristol’s‘Business of the Year’ and the City’s ‘Best FamilyBusiness’, offers generators rated from 5 to2200kVA as single units or large multi-set parallelsystems for high power or high availability (N+1).Systems are custom designed to meet thedemanding needs of both the rental and salesmarkets. PE is a main dealer for FG Wilson, oneof the worlds the largest generator companies,who design and manufacture standard andcustomised gensets rated from 5.5 to over 2,200kVA. RR No: 11104567