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Waste King’s Eight Steps to Being Greener

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Waste King, the environmentally-friendly specialist collections, clearance and recycling company which guarantees to recycle over 84 per cent of all the waste it collects, has published its top eight suggestions to help everyone enjoy a ‘greener’ lifestyle. Waste King’s managing director, Glenn Currie, said: “New Year’s Resolutions are notorious for not being adhered to after the first few days...

Training and development evaluation system partnership opportunity

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Results assessment specialist Ceres Management has launched ‘Results Research 2012’, a unique partnership opportunity for a small number of organisations that are committed to high quality training evaluation practice. Dr John O’Connor, head of Ceres Management, who has developed the ‘Results Assessment’ methodology, said: “We’re planning to roll-out Results Assessment with a select few...

eXact learning solutions features in ELIG events at Online Educa, Berlin

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The European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) is running a number of events, which will take place at Europe’s largest e-learning conference for the corporate, education and public service sectors: Online Educa, which is being held in Berlin, from 30th November to 2nd December. ELIG’s events at Online Educa begin with a Networking Reception, on 30th November, from 18.30 to 20.00. This Reception...

Pareto Law and ISMM Partner to Help Professionalise Sales

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Pareto Law and the Institute of Sales & Marketing Management have partnered to enable Pareto trainees to receive internationally recognised sales qualifications. Sales Training and Recruitment provider Pareto Law has now become a recognised centre by The Institute of Sales & Marketing Management (ISMM), enhancing its proposition by being able to offer sales qualifications as part of its...

Sales insights abound at ISMM’s Successful Selling Coventry conference

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Some 800 of the UK’s top salespeople explored and enhanced their skills at this year’s ‘Successful Selling’ conference, which was held at the Ricoh Arena, in Coventry, on 20th October. The conference, organised by the Institute of Sales & Marketing Management (ISMM), the UK’s professional body for salespeople, was chaired by the business writer and commentator, Guy Browning, and heard...

Growing workload prompts Waste King to enlarge its vehicle fleet

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Recently, Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, has spent a week clearing four 16-bedroom Victorian properties in Luton. These properties had suffered at the hands of squatters. So the chartered surveyor firm, Jaggard Baker, called in Waste King to clear the properties, fumigate them and make them secure. Jaggard Baker is a Beaconsfield-based firm of Chartered...

Colin, the Waste King snail, goes on tour

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Having read – in a local newspaper – about Waste King, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, had saving a Giant African Land Snail from being consigned to the ‘great green bin in the sky’ by one of the company’s customers, Sophie Dowling asked Waste King if her school could ‘borrow’ the snail and Waste King has agreed. Sophie teaches a Year 3 class at St Cuthbert Mayne...

Quasar online videos act as performance support tools

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Those attending Quasar’s instructor-led IT training courses now also have free access to performance support via the range of Quasar Anytime online videos. Quasar’s managing director, Michael Shane, explained: “Even in today’s increasingly technology-influenced society, there are many people who prefer to learn in a traditional way: in a group, led by an instructor, for example. This applies just...

Waste King becomes a football supporter

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As part of its on-going corporate social responsibility (CSR) commitment, the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, has contributed funds towards goals and other equipment at St Margaretsbury Football Club. The football club, based in Stanstead Abbotts – and originally called ‘Stanstead Abbotts’ when it was formed in 1894 – moved to its current headquarters and...

A historic television and expansion plans for Waste King

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Customers of the specialist collections, clearance and recycling company, Waste King, are producing increasingly interesting and unusual items for it to recycle. Having being given one customer’s pet Giant African Land Snail – now named ‘Colin’ and making a real ‘hit’ with Waste King staff as well as with children at a local school which it visits, for ‘observation’ from time to time – a while...