General News

In what is proving to be a excellent start to 2012 we have had the pleasure of dispatching two containers to the Far East this week. One container to Thailand and the other to Malaysia. The increase in demand we are experiencing from the Far East is another indication that our pallet inverters and pallet turners continue to gain in their worldwide appeal.

At a time when so many companies are having to lay off employees we are pleased to announce that we have added another sales engineer to our staff. David Westgate brings with him a host of experience and arrives at a time of increased orders and company expansion. We wish him well and sure he will be a asset not only to us but also to all of our large customer base across the UK.

This year we at Premier have made a donation to the UK charity Macmillan Cancer Support in lieu of sending out Christmas gifts. We are sure that all of you will be happy to know that this donation will go to help a charity that does incredible work for many affected by cancer.

Thank you all for your business and support in 2011. It has truly been an incredible year for us and we look forward to the success continuing throughout 2012.

We would like to wish all our agents and customers a happy holiday and let you know our closing and reopening times.

Closing – 12pm Thursday 22nd December 2011
Reopening – 9am Tuesday 3rd January 2012

If you need to contact us during this period please email us at:

websales@premierpal.co.uk

Thank you for all your business and support in 2011 and we wish you a prosperous 2012.

From all the Team at Premier.

For the last four years at Premier we have shared our success with others by providing each member of staff money to be donated to their chosen charity. This give us all a chance to show our support to those good causes that have often personally affected our lives. We thought you’d like to know the charities we chose this year.

This year the charities that each member of staff have chosen are:

Macmillan
East Anglian Childrens Hospices
Crisis at Christmas
Leukaemia Research
Movember (Male Cancer Charity)
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Sponsor a Child in Ethoipia

Premier is excited to announce the opening of the new USA sales office. The decision was made in June of this year to provide our customers in the USA with a direct point of contact for purchase of Pallet Inverters and Pallet transfer equipment. We trust this new office will assist our current and future customers with solutions to their pallet transfer challenges by offering a direct voice of the factory in the USA. This office is centrally located in Elgin, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, for the best Nationwide support. The addition of this office further solidifies Premier’s position as the world leader in Pallet Inverter solutions since 1976.

We were pleased to attend the grand opening of the new offices and warehouse of our Austrian agent Haba. The ceremony was attended by more than hundred customers and local dignatories. The local business minister of economy Dr Petra Bohuslav.

We have worked very successfully with Haba for an number of years and wish them every success in their new premises for the future.

As we load yet another container of machines bound for Australia we have cause to reflect on another country that continues to increase its orders for our Pallet Inverters and Pallet Changers, despite the economic difficulties the world is experiencing.

Although Australia is one of the most distant locations we service we are pleased that the assistance we offer our clients locally is second to none. It seems as if the world really is shrinking, with modern day transport and communications allowing us to work closely with our team in Australia to make sure that every Pallet Inverter, Pallet Changer or Pallet Dispenser we ship is fully supported.

With all the negative news about the Greek economy we are really pleased to say that this has not been our recent experience with them. We can only hope that the recent orders from companies in Greece for: 4 Pallet Dispensers, 1 Pallet Changer and 2 FSDC Pallet Inverters is a positive sign that the country is on the mend.

Our experience is that companies chose Premier above our competitors because they are looking to make a long term investment in the highest quality product available on the market. We feel this shows that increased orders from Greek companies indicates a growing confidence in their manufacturing and distribution.

With all the down beat news about how much is being imported into the UK from China we are really pleased to be building a healthy Export business to China. This has recently been boosted by some significant orders for our Pallet Changer and also our FSDC Pallet Inverters. Selling to China offers new challenges and also good rewards. Our trade with the Chinese has been very encouraging. Our high build quality has been well received in, what for us, continues to be an expanding market.