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April 27, 2009 By

Would you like to green up your supply chain? Get to know who in Essex is greener, who is sustainable and who you would like to do business with at this great event.

  • Would you like to meet environmental service companies that operate in the Basildon District?
  • Would you like to shop around for recycling or waste carrier companies?
  • Need help with green transport or reducing your energy costs?
  • Need help with promoting your green credentials?
  • Like to do business with other environmentally aware companies?

You can do all of the above by attending the Environmental Service
Providers Market Place event on July 13 at 1400h at the Basildon Holiday
Inn hotel, SS14 3DG.

It is free to attend. The event will start at 1400h with a short presentation from the Environment Agency about their support for businesses followed by a talk from Envirowise about the importance of green procurement.

Attendees will then be able to visit the stands of the 30 exhibiting green companies.

Refreshments will be provided.

This event is organised by the Basildon Green Business Forum in
conjunction with the Federation of Small Businesses, the Environment
Agency and Envirowise.

To register to attend please go to website
http://www.fsb.org.uk/default.aspx?id=180&loc=101 and fill in your details
or contact Keith Brown at keith.brown@fsb.org.uk

All enquiries regarding exhibiting to Keith Smith or Colin Stroud at
green.business@basildon.gov.uk Tel: 01268 294294.

Here is a list of the 30 exhibiting companies as of April 22, 2009:-
Abby Couriers (use of electric vehicles)
Ahern waste management
Arrow Light Haulage (yes, thats us :) )
Asbestos Central
Basildon Green Business Forum
Basildon ITEC
BioTekNiks 100% IT recycling services
E&B Waste
Eastex, waste exchange
Enigin, energy saving solutions
EnviroComms, marketing communication agency working exclusively in the
environmental sector
Environment Agency
Envirowise
Essex & East London Van Services Ltd
Events Matter
FAT Management Ltd, waste solutions
Federation of Small Businesses
Hailstone Travel
LowC Energy Services Ltd
Morgan Cass
Organisation for Responsible Businesses
RAMAR
RDC, IT Equipment Disposal, Remarketing and Redeployment
Rentokil/Initial
Scott Wilson
Severnside Recycling (Basildon)
Simons Bus
TBU Solutions, Commercial Utility Advisors
The Eco Patch
Viridor (Thames Waste)

Contact Colin Stroud and Keith Smith from the Basildon Green Business Forum 01268 294294 / 07703 582368

The Basildon Green Business Forum can help you with any environmental
issues. Help is entirely free. Please contact  Colin or Keith for more
information.

Sarah

Greener transport and deliveries in Essex

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Essex Courier company co-sponsors a Business Networking event in Brentwood

January 31, 2009 By

On Thursday 29th Jan 2009, Arrow Light Haulage sponsored a Business Scene event with Regus and BT Tradespace in Brentwood Essex.

Networking event sponsored by essex courier company, Arrow Light Haulage

The evening was a huge success with 96 attendees who enjoyed guest speaker/networking expert Andy Lopata

Essex Networking event with andy lopata

Over £200 was raised for the charity Hope and Aid Direct. Hope and Aid Direct is run by Charles Storer who regularly packs up his 7.5 tonne lorry and drives it across Europe to the Balkans, to provide aid for those that the rest of the world has forgot. Charles is based in Ingatestone and fund raises locally to make a difference in children’s lives.

Arrow Light Haulage hand over the charity raffle money

Here is Sarah and Regus Manager Robert Brett handing the raffle money to Charles.

I thought it was amazing so many came out to Brentwood in a cold January night to get to know lots of local people. What better way of beating the recession than doing business together?

The feedback from the event has been overwhelmingly positive and Sarah plans to organise the next event in April at Stansted. She is looking for event sponsors and raffle prizes to help raise funds for Hope and Aid Direct. If you want details of the next event, just sign up to Business Scene in Essex and we will keep you up to date.

Regards

Kevin

More information on Hope and Aid Direct can be found on their website, they are next taking a convey at Easter, if you can make a donation please do so.

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Happy New Year to all our customers

December 28, 2008 By

Just a quick post to wish our blog readers and customers a happy new year. May 2009 be better for you than its forecast!

I hope you had a good Christmas but if it was not what you were expecting, what are you going to do about it?

This year we are working with Business Scene to promote business networking events in the Essex region. Having a network of contacts for advice and referrals is a good way of getting new business. Some people choose the formal route and BNI is very popular, but there are lots of good local groups springing up all over the place :-)

We are working with Business Scene as it’s a great platform for starting and building online relationships. Online relationships are only good for so much, the real power is the offline meetings. Our first offline meeting of 2009 is January 29th in Brentwood, just minutes away from the M25, A12, and A127 (you see being a courier company means we know to find an easily accessible location :-) )

If you would like to join us, you are most welcome to  – Link to registration here.

If you want (and I do advise you take advantage of the facilities) you can add company details and upload a photo, making it easier for people to identify you at the events. Customers are 7 times more likely to buy from a recommendation than without one, so can you afford not to network?

So… what are you doing for your business and customers in 2009?

Sarah

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Parcel Delivery: Flat Rate Courier

December 3, 2008 By

When you book a parcel courier do you read the small print?

Last week we took on a new customer who had read the ‘small print’ and found it not to his liking until he came to us. When doing his research he found that he would often be charged a ‘surcharge’ for delivering to a private address rather than a business address – between £3-£5 extra. He would also be charged a 5% fuel surcharge, and if he went over weight by even just a kilo, he would be charged an extra £3.00 as well.

He started to add it all up and realised the £8.95+VAT he was being charged for delivery wasn’t that cheap once the ‘surcharges’ had been added, if fact it could double the initial price for a parcel!

At Arrow Light Haulage we believe in a transparent pricing system – that the cost is determined by the items weight, and thats it. The only extras we charge for are items such as packing and wrapping materials, again this is optional.

So, if you have a parcel to collect in Basildon, Chelmsford or West Thurrock & Dartford just click on the banners below – we are a flat rate courier, no surcharges unless of course you want us to charge for them ;-)

Regards

Kevin

Parcel deliveries in Essex, Kant and everywhere in between

Great for smaller parcels and smaller volume, say 5 -10 a day.

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Essex Couriers featured in Courier Direct Magazine!

November 22, 2008 By

This month Arrow Light Haulage, the Essex courier company has been featured in another trade press magazine, this time Courier Direct. We’re thrilled to have recognition from our peers. But it wasn’t as easy as we thought….

Writing the responses to the interview questions was left, as we were unusually busy for the time of year, to the last minute. It was then we realised that Kev didn’t have a decent photo to send for the article :-( we decided to take our own and that made for an amusing half hour… why is it that a photographer can get such good shots? and when we try we look like one of the muppets? We would just have to send them a photograph from when we picked our Basildon Business Award.

Well, after such faffing about we spoke to the magazine and they asked for our quarter page ad. What ad? we replied, with a sinking feeling in our hearts. The quarter page advert for your business, that ad… oh that ad!  and can we have it by Midday please… we should have never have left it to the last minute, we should have done it over the weekend and then we would have been prepared. How does that work? As  couriers we are prepared for almost all delivery eventualities from freight hiccups to cargo handling, yet when it comes to getting something together for a printed magazine all the organisational skills go out of the window! Isn’t there a law for these happenings? Murphy’s? Pareto’s? Netwon’s?

After this musing, our white knight rode in to help us, Barbara Saul our internet marketing strategy expert, who also happens to be a talented web designer. Babs kicked us into touch and sorted us out with our logo (now in our corporate green and gold colours, instead of blue) and a lovely quarter page advert that looks great. Thanks Babs :-)

Kevin and Sarah

Basildon, Southend in Essex Couriers and parcel delivery

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