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One person’s rubbish is another’s gold - Premier Farnell donates electronic design waste materials to benefit the Scrap Creative Reuse Project
01.08.2008
01 August 2008, London, England - Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl), the leading multi-channel, high service distributor supporting millions of engineers and purchasing professionals globally announced it is providing electronic design waste materials from its Leeds warehouse facility to the Scrap Creative Reuse Project for use in local art projects.
Premier Farnell has donated items such as transistors, resistors, surface mount components, spools of wire and even a quarter of a ton of used solder for use in art projects through the Scrap Creative Reuse Project. This ongoing project provides the Group with an ideal opportunity to donate electronic design waste materials and prevent them going into landfill. This is yet another example of the Group’s commitment to sustaining the environment in which we live.
Scrap Creative Reuse is a unique social enterprise which promotes the belief that waste materials are a precious resource. They give value to unwanted objects, rejects, damaged stock and landfill for reuse in creative purposes. They take waste materials and give ideas an inspiration to reuse them in an imaginative way.
“Working in partnership with Premier Farnell and other businesses in the community enables us to take their scrap materials for reuse in creative arts projects,” said Louise Lucas, Managing Director of Scrap Creative Reuse, Ltd. “Not only are we diverting waste from landfill but we are giving individuals the ability to be creative and use their imagination to create beautiful and sometimes rather unique art projects.
“We are grateful for programmes like the Scrap Creative Reuse Project,” said Des North, Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality Manager of Premier Farnell. “By providing our electronic design waste material to the project, it allows us to reduce our landfill use, demonstrate our strong commitment to our social corporate responsibility programme and support our local arts community.”
About Premier Farnell
Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl) is a leading high service, multi-channel distributor of electronic, maintenance, repair and operation products and specialist services throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. It goes to market with a differentiated value proposition, world-class marketing, a stocked range of 400,000+ products, and access to 4,000,000 more items from 3,000 top manufacturers. The company has group sales of £823.1m and 4,100 employees globally.
While global in scope, Premier Farnell recognizes the individual needs of each market and has continued to internationalize its model accordingly, trading locally under different brand names. Its primary electronics businesses trade as Farnell in the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, Newark in the US, Canada and Mexico, and Premier Electronics in China. In Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Brazil the operation is known as Farnell Newark. For more information visit the website at www.premierfarnell.com
Contact Details:
Jenny Peters
Head of Corporate Communication
Premier Farnell, plc
Tel: +44 (0) 207 851 4102
Email: jpeters@premierfarnell.com
Web: www.premierfarnell.com
Caroline Walker
Group Head of CSR & Environmental Affairs
Premier Farnell, plc
Tel: +44 (0) 113 387 5282
Email: cwalker@premierfarnel.com
Web: www.premierfarnell.com
Jonathan Roberts
Account Director
Pinnacle Marketing Communications Ltd,
Tel: +44 (0) 208 869 9339
Email: jonathan@pinnaclemarcom.com
Web: www.pinnacle-marketing.com
Kate Robson
Marketing Campaigns Manager
Farnell
Europe
Tel: +44 (0) 133 387 5110
Email: krobson@farnell.com
Premier Farnell has donated items such as transistors, resistors, surface mount components, spools of wire and even a quarter of a ton of used solder for use in art projects through the Scrap Creative Reuse Project. This ongoing project provides the Group with an ideal opportunity to donate electronic design waste materials and prevent them going into landfill. This is yet another example of the Group’s commitment to sustaining the environment in which we live.
Scrap Creative Reuse is a unique social enterprise which promotes the belief that waste materials are a precious resource. They give value to unwanted objects, rejects, damaged stock and landfill for reuse in creative purposes. They take waste materials and give ideas an inspiration to reuse them in an imaginative way.
“Working in partnership with Premier Farnell and other businesses in the community enables us to take their scrap materials for reuse in creative arts projects,” said Louise Lucas, Managing Director of Scrap Creative Reuse, Ltd. “Not only are we diverting waste from landfill but we are giving individuals the ability to be creative and use their imagination to create beautiful and sometimes rather unique art projects.
“We are grateful for programmes like the Scrap Creative Reuse Project,” said Des North, Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality Manager of Premier Farnell. “By providing our electronic design waste material to the project, it allows us to reduce our landfill use, demonstrate our strong commitment to our social corporate responsibility programme and support our local arts community.”
About Premier Farnell
Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl) is a leading high service, multi-channel distributor of electronic, maintenance, repair and operation products and specialist services throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. It goes to market with a differentiated value proposition, world-class marketing, a stocked range of 400,000+ products, and access to 4,000,000 more items from 3,000 top manufacturers. The company has group sales of £823.1m and 4,100 employees globally.
While global in scope, Premier Farnell recognizes the individual needs of each market and has continued to internationalize its model accordingly, trading locally under different brand names. Its primary electronics businesses trade as Farnell in the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, Newark in the US, Canada and Mexico, and Premier Electronics in China. In Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Brazil the operation is known as Farnell Newark. For more information visit the website at www.premierfarnell.com
Contact Details:
Jenny Peters
Head of Corporate Communication
Premier Farnell, plc
Tel: +44 (0) 207 851 4102
Email: jpeters@premierfarnell.com
Web: www.premierfarnell.com
Caroline Walker
Group Head of CSR & Environmental Affairs
Premier Farnell, plc
Tel: +44 (0) 113 387 5282
Email: cwalker@premierfarnel.com
Web: www.premierfarnell.com
Jonathan Roberts
Account Director
Pinnacle Marketing Communications Ltd,
Tel: +44 (0) 208 869 9339
Email: jonathan@pinnaclemarcom.com
Web: www.pinnacle-marketing.com
Kate Robson
Marketing Campaigns Manager
Farnell
Europe
Tel: +44 (0) 133 387 5110
Email: krobson@farnell.com
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