Change of blog content

Posted by Adrian on Jun 22, 2011 in A C Labels, business, Labels, Security Labels | 0 comments Regular readers will want to know that we are “calling time” on certain types of content on this blog.  We will continue to post more informal content here on the same range of labelling, open source and company content, but official company news, press releases, jobs and announcements are now hosted on our new Group Corporate website at www.mercianlabels.com , particularly in the...
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First Aid Course with a difference!

Posted by Adrian on Jun 9, 2011 in business | 0 comments Businesses in the UK are obliged to have a satisfactory level of First Aid training based on a risk assessment of the activities undertaken.  Having done these courses for over 30 years now, they can get a little boring at times, so this time when renewing my basic first aid qualification I went on a 2 day course run in the Derbyshire Peak District by Nicola of High Peak First Aid.  Badged as...
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Press Release – Mercian Labels Group MD named as a leading entrepreneur

Posted by Adrian on Jun 7, 2011 in business, Labels, press releases | 0 comments PRESS RELEASE 7 June 2011 Cannock, UK Mercian Labels Group MD named as a leading entrepreneur Dr Adrian Steele, MD of the Mercian Labels Group has been awarded a coverted place as one of the ’42 under 42′ most promising Midlands entrepreneurs of 2011 by the prestigious Midlands Insider business magazine.  The awards, which have been running for over 10 years, seek to identify the...
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Gammatex™ gamma radiation indicator labels growth supported with new website launch

Posted by Adrian on May 26, 2011 in A C Labels, business, Labels | 0 comments PRESS RELEASE 27 May 2011 Cannock, UK Gammatex™ gamma radiation indicator labels growth supported with new website launch Global demand for radiation indicator products has led to the launch of a new website to support Gammatex™, a brand of the Mercian Labels Group. The new website at www.gammatex.co.uk showcases the product for both users and international distributors.  Launched in...
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chilli update – all 80 chilli plants potted out

Posted by Adrian on May 21, 2011 in business, Labels | 2 comments Just a quick update on this year’s chilli growing fest, as today I planed all 80 potted seedlings out ready for a super growing season.  If you arent aware of the history of this, you can see the 2011 seedlings post here, previous years crops here and here, and my inspiration from Alan at The Open Sourcerer blog here.  OK, its nothing to do with Mercian Labels business, but its a great...
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Visitors are welcome to tour the Mercian Labels Factory

Posted by Adrian on May 16, 2011 in A C Labels, business, Labels, Security Labels | 0 comments It has been a pleasure to demonstrate the production systems and capabilities of the Mercian Labels Group to visitors this year who are all keen to see the new refit and how we achieve the manufacturing lead times and innovations that we do.  Visitors have included our MP, 3 of the top labelling industry commentators in the world and many suppliers and current customers. We would now like to...
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Running for Help for Heroes

Posted by Adrian on Apr 30, 2011 in A C Labels, business, Labels, Open Source, Security Labels | 1 comment Tomorrow I am running the Lichfield Half Marathon in aid of Help for Heroes. Mercian Labels has supported Help for Heroes before, and I’m pleased to be running tomorrow and sweating it out for a couple of ours to support such a worthy cause. I dont enjoy running, didnt enjoy the training, and its going to be a hot and long 2.5 hours for me, but compared to what today’s injured...
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2011 chilli crop

Posted by Adrian on Mar 11, 2011 in business, Labels, Open Source | 2 comments For new followers of this blog, its a tradition that I grow chillies for summer bbqs and hot winter curries when I’m not doing labelling!  You can see previous years crops here and here, and my inspiration from Alan at The Open Sourcerer blog here. Last week I potted out the 80 seedlings ready for a bumper harvest of chillies this summer.  There is some friendly banter with other...
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The Mercian Labels Group concludes a £1m investment programme with a major factory refit opening

Posted by Adrian on Feb 19, 2011 in A C Labels, business, Labels, press releases, Security Labels | 0 comments PRESS RELEASE 18 February 2011 Cannock, UK The Mercian Labels Group concludes a £1m investment programme with a major factory refit opening Midlands label manufacturer The Mercian Labels Group are bucking the trend by opening their newly refurbished factory following 40 years of successful trading. The new refit of the offices and factory concludes a £1m investment programme that has been...
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on this day 10 years ago…

Posted by Adrian on Feb 19, 2011 in business, Labels | 0 comments On 19 February 2001 I joined Mercian Labels as the “MD designate”.  Looking back at 10 fantastic years of learning, growth, team building, innovation, mistakes, triumphs and successes, I’ve loved (almost!) every minute of it and am really proud of the talents of the people I work with at the Mercian Labels Group. The picture above is of me on my first day – apparently my...
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Design yourself a free custom background for new twitter using this Powerpoint or Open Office Presentation Template

Posted by Adrian on Jan 29, 2011 in business, Labels, Open Source | 1 comment I’m quite pleased with our new custom background for the @MercianLabels Twitter account.  Its designed using a free and easy template that we are releasing with this blog post in both Powerpoint  and Open Office Presentation formats. There are other ways of doing custom Twitter templates, even free templates using Powerpoint type files, but none that I could find for the “new...
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Picture of The Mercian Labels Group HQ refitted board room

Posted by Adrian on Jan 23, 2011 in A C Labels, business, Labels, Security Labels | 0 comments Thanks for all of our staff, customers and suppliers for dealing with the disruption in the past 8 weeks as we’ve been refitting and modernising our Group HQ building at Mercian House in Cannock.  This is our spectacular new board room which enables us to showcase our capabilities to clients with AV presentation and new video conference facility. We would be delighted to show customers and...
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Consequences of getting variable data print wrong

Posted by Adrian on Jan 4, 2011 in A C Labels, business, Labels, Security Labels | 0 comments Pity the major bank who had to suffer the consequences of getting their variable data handling wrong just before Christmas 2010.  Although variable data printing sounds easy, and the technology has been around for some form or other for many years, its actually the culture and procedures that matter when your data absolutely HAS to be right. At AC Labels, market leaders in the manufacture of...
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