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Latest News.... New Additions - Sales Team We welcome Deidre Trinder & Joanne Fryer to the sales team to assist us with our planned growth and strategic direction within the food and healthcare markets. Within the first week of them being on the road they secured their first orders. Both orders were required within 2 weeks and with the help of our design team we fulfilled the client’s requirements even with 2 days to spare! We look forward to many more orders from Joanne and Deidre over the coming months and hopefully they will give us slightly more time on their next order!
Deidre Joanne
New Additions - Design Team We also welcome James Mason and David Hutton to the Design Team. With this additional boost to our design team, we now have 8 experienced team members this enables Charpak to offer Design, Prototyping and Production tooling within a matter of a few weeks.
James David
With his wealth of experience James is able to create ‘life like’ concepts to demonstrate to the client exactly how the product will look within its packaging, without going to the expense of prototyping initially. The picture shown is computer generated – it’s not a photo!
Apprentices – Your Hired! As part of our training initiative we assist young people within our organisation to develop their skills within our Design and Development departments Stephen Cook and Sam Curtin are the latest 2 to undergo a 4 year course in mechanical engineering / machining, Sam has completed his while Stephen has 1 year left to go. Stephen is achieving very good college results and developing exceptionally well – they are both valued technical team members.
Stephen Sam
Charpak Employee of the month We have fantastic people working for us who all give 100% effort to the business. Because of this commitment we wanted to award a team member on a monthly basis who had demonstrated even more than what was required of them. With the prize of a fabulous box of Hotel Chocolat’s chocolates they will have to work hard in the following month to burn off those calories!
Anna
Increase to CNC Machinery Output To respond to our commitment to shorten lead-times even further we have upgraded our machinery to further increase our tooling capacity with 2 fully automated tool changing CNC machines. The quality of the tooling is superb and gives us the ability to machine at high speeds. This means we are able to keep origination costs low.
Packaging Waste Reduction Initiative. Charpak see packaging reduction as a positive to our business. We approached a major retailer with ideas of how to reduce packaging within their in store bakery. This has led to Charpak being chosen to produce a range of products for the in store bakery with more to be developed. We have improved the packaging design, reduced the material thickness and the size of the containers to increase the amount that could be displayed on shelf. After extensive marketing and transit trials the packaging was launched in July 2009.
Cakes Galore! We have been extremely proactive within the Ambient Cake market working with major companies developing new packaging concepts to present innovative ideas to the retailers. We have been able to increase sales at retail solely due to the packaging and how it is displayed within store. The cakes taste good too!
Subway – Launches new sandwich Platters Charpak were invited to design a new style of sandwich Platter as part of their worldwide initiative to increase their corporate offering. Initially the Platters are being trialled in the London area and the feedback they have received is fantastic. We are currently trialling products in Germany with interest from Australia, New Zealand and the US.
Patented Designs We have patents in place for a Promotional Drinks Carrier and a Tetra style carton Lid fitment for ‘add on’ promotions. Both these designs have been received well within their respective markets so look out for the Branded Drink Carrier early in 2010 around stadiums and outdoor events.
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