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Contrac and MediaSciences
July 08

Contrac are pleased to announce a new partnership with MediaSciences.

MediaSciences are a leading manufacturer of NEW-BUILD compatible colour printer supplies.

These products are 100% risk free and carry a full printer protection warranty.

All at savings of up to 30% versus the Branded manufacturer products.

Pudsey

Contrac and Dell
June 08

Contrac are pleased to announce we have now attained DELL reseller partnership status.

You can achieve genuine Dell business pricing by working with Contrac.

The full DELL Product portfolio – Desktop, laptops, storage, servers, printers and consumables.

All available now from your Contrac account Manager.
Contrac IT Source Beverley - 01482 862336
Contrac IT Source Birtley - 0191 492 2999

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APACS
January 08

Contrac has secured accreditation via the APACS "Pin Mailer Accreditation Scheme" for its market leading Hydalam Laserpin XO product range.

Pudsey

Children in Need
November 07

Contrac staff and Customers managed to raise £2349 for Children-In-Need this year. This represents a big jump from last year's total - a great result for children-in-need, thanks to all.

Partnerships at work in the M&S Supply Chain
November 07

Contrac’s Print Management team has been working with fellow M&S suppliers DHL and Christian Salvesen on a new M&S initiate called “PLAN A Strategy”.

PLAN A seeks to make meaningful steps towards and environmentally friendly ethos in the M&S supply chain.
A partnership looking at process requirements of DHL and Christian Salvesen alongside the fulfillment expertise of Contrac aimed at delivering substantial savings to both environmental and business costs at M&S.

HP Prefered Partner

The I.T. Source Division has completed its 2007/8 accreditations for the HP Preferred Partner Program.
October 07

The I.T.Source team are looking forward to working with HP and delivering award winning products and solutions to Contrac customers

Contrac’s Print Management team has been working with a leading High Street Retailer to
develop a new Label Tag system.
June 07

The Label Tag is an integral part of a developing national system for tracking the movement of goods from distribution centres to high street stores.This was a major project involving multiple parties from the customer’s supply chain. The product was successfully trialed in May and implemented during June 2007.

Walker Greenbank plc introduce new warehouse picking system.
January 2007

Contrac's Keith Hodgkinson has helped the specialist fabric and wallpaper manufacturer introduce bespoke laser despatch/picking notes, incorporating integral labels and detachable panels. "The ability to access a range of barcoded media from a single laserable sheet, will improve product tracking and eliminate most picking errors".

UK's largest debt recovery company benefits from mailing deal.
December 2006

This Yorkshire-based client of Contrac's will benefit to the tune of £350,000 from the deal they jointly struck with UK Mail for the delivery of its 14 million letters per annum. A new range of gloss, laser letterhead stationery (sourced and pre-printed by Contrac) is expected to have a positive impact on the payment response from its clients.

Virbis - Many Challenges. One Solution

Beverley-based company, Virbis, headed up by engineering consultant Glenn Bullingham and Andy Chrismas, sales manager, is fast becoming the North’s most recognised specialist in the field of IT infrastructure virtualisation.

“Companies can save up to 60% on their IT procurement and management budget over a three year period, requiring less than half the number of servers with their associated running costs, as well as improving performance, minimising downtime and reducing manual intervention.” said Andy Chrismas.

“It also strengthens business continuity and delivers high availability for critical applications, which are so fundamental for the modern business”.

Each software application and operating system is packaged as a “virtual machine” and runs as a completely independent entity on a host server, often reducing the number of servers by half.

Virbis recently won the tender to supply Yorkshire-based EYG with a disaster recovery solution. Phil Dennison IT Manager for East Yorkshire Glazing comments, “We had several quotes for conventional solutions, but Virbis not only offered the most competitive price, but also gave us the most professional presentation, and the opportunity to install Virtualisation. They completed the installation very quickly, with no disruption to our work. We have every confidence in Virtualisation and the assurance that we have a much more secure and efficient system on which we rely for all our manufacturing as well as administrative operations.”