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| Season’s
Greetings! |
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The
Team from Smith Anderson would like to thank all Customers
and Suppliers for their support throughout 2011 and take
this opportunity to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas
and a Prosperous New Year. December 2011
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| Wear-it-Pink
Day |
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Smith Anderson staff have been raising money for charity again,
this time for Breast Cancer, by taking part in the national
Wear-it-Pink campaign. Employees from all departments took
part and helped raise £218. The activities included
staff wearing pink clothing, wigs, entering washing line sweeps
and donations from card sales. November 2011 |
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| Smith
Anderson join Fife Chamber |
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recent announcement to re-locate to a new state of the art
production facility in Kirkcaldy, Smith Anderson have further
outlined the desire to support manufacturing in Fife by joining
the Fife Chamber of Commerce. As one of Fife’s largest
manufacturing companies Smith Anderson are investing heavily
in the future and hope that membership of the Fife Chamber
will be of mutual benefit. November 2011 |
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| UK’s
Largest Paper Bag Manufacturer to re-locate to Kirkcaldy |
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Friday 30th September 2011 Smith Anderson Group Ltd successfully
purchased the Rosslyn Commerce Park, within Mitchelston Industrial
Estate in Kirkcaldy, Fife. The new site offers a state of
the art, single storey production facility covering more than
120,000 sq ft and lies just 2 minutes from the A92 dual carriageway,
offering superb logistical solutions to support its international
trade.
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| FPA
Go-Karting Day |
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Smith Anderson sales team recently competed in the Foodservice
Packaging (FPA) Go-Karting event at Whilton Mill, Daventry.
Leading the way with the quickest time of the day was the
Chief Executive, Michael Longstaffe and Smith Anderson finished
respectably in the middle of the 20 strong field. From the
left: Jon Norman, Michael Longstaffe, Richard Bunch, Tony
Chambers. |
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| £1027
Raised for Maggie’s Centre |
| The
ladies of Smith Anderson would like to thank everyone who
donated to their recent 5 mile walk through Glenrothes and
Leslie for Maggie’s Centre, the total raised was £1027.
Maggie’s do excellent work for both cancer patients
and their families and they were delighted to raise so much
money for such a good cause. They are already looking forward
to next year when they will be going that extra “5”
miles and participating in the 10 mile walk. |
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| Sustainability
Report |
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Anderson recently completed the first in a series of environmental
and sustainability programmes and is delighted to publish
their first Group Sustainability Report. Working with consultants
Great Circle, Smith Anderson completed the report to focus
attention on how to manage and reduce environmental impact
and also to raise awareness, with respect to how they manage
renewable resources they utilise. Smith Anderson has a strong
sustainable heritage, even in the 1800's a water turbine was
installed, an upgraded version is still in use today. Recycled
fibres were used from 1900 when production of 100% recycled
paper began. |
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| Reconfigured
Board now has Non-Executive Chair & CEO |
| After
two years as Executive Chairman, Freddie Craig, retired from
the Board of Smith Anderson Group Ltd after leading the team
through what has been described as “a very impressive
turnaround”. The Group now has a new Non-Executive Chairman
in Edward Murray. Ed is a qualified CA and was a Director
of the British Linen Bank. He has a number of other non-executive
interests, which include WA Baxter & Sons as well as Genius
Foods. Michael Longstaffe has been promoted to Chief Executive
Officer, heading up an operational team which includes the
other two Executive Directors, Teresa Thomson (Finance) and
David Howley (Production). June 2011 |
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Freddie
Craig (left) receives his retirement gifts from the last
family Chairman, David Verden-Anderson |
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Michael
Longstaffe (left) welcomes Ed Murray to the new team. |
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| Smith
Anderson has been chosen for McDonald's Promotion |
| Smith
Anderson has been chosen by McDonald's to provide branded
paper bags to promote their highly successful Monopoly promotion
for the 4th year running. The Triple Play Monopoly Game promotion
runs in all UK McDonald's Restaurants from 23rd March until
10th May and gives customers numerous opportunities to win
millions of fabulous prizes from complimentary food to £500,000
cash! Smith Anderson will supply over 30 million recycled
paper bags throughout the course of this promotion. April
2011 |
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| Smith
Anderson win FPA 2011 Innovation Award |
| The
Foodservice Packaging Association held their Annual Awards
Gala Dinner in March at the Midland Hotel Manchester. Watched
by 370 Industry Leaders within the food service packaging
arena, Smith Anderson were presented with the prestigious
Product Innovation Award for their new Ovenable 'Hot Wrap'
Product. This latest innovation forms an integral part of
the patented Hot'n'Crispy product range. Pret a Manger and
BP have been fast to capitalise on the benefits of the 'Hot
Wrap' that improves speed of fill and allows an uncooked or
par-baked product to be heated at temperatures of up to 220
degrees. The linear tear perforation strip allows the customer
un-wrap with ease and 'eat on the go'. The 'Hot Wrap' also
benefits from being 100% recyclable and compostable. March
2011 |
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| Long
Service Awards |
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Anderson continues its tradition of recognising the long service
of its employees. Recently awards were presented to 3 employees
who have each achieved 25 years service, Linda Speake, Sean
Normand and David Sherret. Members of the Executive Team and
the Board of Directors were present to give their congratulations. February
2011 |
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| Merry
Christmas! |
From
a Wintery Falkland the Smith Anderson Group would like to
thank all Customers and Suppliers for their support throughout
2010 and take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Merry
Christmas and a Prosperous New Year. December 2010
With
an order book almost full to Christmas, customers will have
received a letter confirming the need to ensure all Christmas
requirements are covered (if in doubt call your sales contact
or the office on 01337 855 555).
In global terms the pulp market finally looks as though
it has stopped increasing month on month, with a gradual
decline expected from September onwards. This 'should' drive
down waste based grades resulting in a slight easing in
MG Paper pricing from Q1 of 2011. Unfortunately extreme
demand, over questionable supply capacity is resulting in
profit taking at paper mills who have lost money historically,
but have never really had it so good. We will do all we
can to control these costs, but previous forecasts of significant
raw material reductions during Q1 & Q2 of 2011 now seem
very unlikely. October 2010 |
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| Paper
Pricing Continues to Rise |
| Global
paper and pulp markets increase unchecked. 14 successive months
of higher priced pulp are fully expected to continue through
the summer months. Recent paper increases have been fuelled
by the weakness of GBP£ and latterly global shortages
of pulp due to the earthquake in South America and industrial
action across Scandinavia. Supply & Demand dynamics
are not expected to stabilise, leading to fears of a further
(3rd) wave of paper price increases at the end of the Summer.
It is predicted that pulp contract prices will level towards
the end of the summer but it may be some time before this
effect is reflected in the buying price of what is becoming
a rare commodity. June 2010 |
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| Smith
Anderson Celebrate 150 Years! |
| Smith
Anderson celebrated its 150th Anniversary in 2009 and is looking
forward to many more successful years. In 1859, Charles Anderson
established a papermaking business Smith Anderson, at Fettykil
Mills, Leslie, in The Kingdom of Fife. Today Smith Anderson
now operates from Falkland and supplies 50 million paper bags
throughout Europe every week, employing over 220 people. Now
one of the leading European businesses in the packaging industry,
Smith Anderson is 100% family owned. May 2009 |
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| Smith
Anderson Sign 3 Year Contract with McDonald’s. |
| Smith
Anderson are delighted to announce it has successfully secured
a new 3 year contract with McDonald’s, whom it has supplied
for over 35 years, Providing packaging to the UK, Ireland
and the Netherlands, the new contract is vital to the continued
development of Smith Anderson in its 150th year. Smith Anderson
are proud to say they have been a supply chain partner of
McDonald’s since the world’s largest brand came
to the UK in 1974 and are delighted to maintain such a strong
commercial partnership. January 2009 |
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