Wear it Pink

Today was Wear it Pink day at B & V, in aid of Brest Cancer.We've so far raised £51!

Here's a picture of a few of the girls from the office in their pink outfits:

Siobhan, Jill, Kitty, Abby (!), Beth, Ria, Alice and Tony

Good News!

We've just found out that B & V has made it to the finals of the 'International Trader of the Year' category in the Northamptonshire Business Excellence Awards 2009. We are very happy with the news! Fingers crossed we win, Award Ceromony is on the 26th November 2009 - http://www2.northamptontoday.co.uk/businessawards2009/

Hard Work!

Well it appears keeping an up-to-date blog is much harder than it sounds!

I'll go back to talking about our water filter launch, as it's all got very exciting... The water filters are here, the boxes are here, we're waiting on the custom sellotape (which just amazed me), literature is done and the fitting instructions are finished. Which is why it seems so amazing that, from a Marketing Department that seems really quite organised, our poor, long-suffering web designer is still waiting for the content for the website... I have been promising to send it over "by the end of the week" for abour 3 weeks now... Honestly Richard, I'll send it today!

A source of a lot of excitement in the B & V world recently has been the Christmas Party. We started discussing ideas about 2 weeks ago and annouced the plan last week. It's all I've heard everyone talking about since. Those who are attending all appear to be unbelievably excited about it and with good reason. If I do say so myself, this is a fab idea - Milton Keynes Bowl, Moulin Rouge theme, Friday 4th December. I've been hearing a lot of "Couldn't you bring it forward?" since it was announced!

Why, I hear you ask, is everyone so excited about a Christmas Party? In truth, after a year that's been difficult for nearly every company in the world, it's an opportunity to let our hair down and relax. Here at B & V we're lucky to have an amazing bunch of people working here who all work really hard, and what better way to celebrate the end of a successful year?! Pictures WILL be posted, so watch this space....

It's Okay, We're All Fine

Well it's been a week now since the toxic fire across the road and everything's back to normal. Well, everything was back to normal by the Monday actually, but we haven't updated the blog since. And of course, I wouldn't want anyone to panic about our wellbeing...

The reason we haven't updated our blog recently is because we have been amazingly busy. And we're not complaining about that! It's now Friday, and personally I'm enjoying the only moment of calm in my week...

Siobhan

This is Commitment!

Hello all,

Well it's all kicking off in Daventry today. Last night at around 8pm a fire started at Wincanton on the Heartlands Business Park. Turns out that they recycle fridges/freezers etc. The smoke is still billowing 24hours later and, as you can imagine, is extremely toxic. Please see picture below - Jill and I are so committed to this blog that we braved the fumes!