As part of Condor’s ongoing efforts to become a greener company, we have planted our first tree.

In conjunction with greenmessage, the tree was planted at the The Dorset Coppice Group near Blandford Forum by Rob King of Condor. It is our intention to plant a further tree with each machine that we supply.

Over 250 Chamber members and guests enjoyed a delicious 3 course lunch at The De Vere Grand Harbour Hotel. Penny Mallory, guest speaker entertained guests with a motivational speech. Also on the rostrum was David Bayles of Condor Office Solutions as Event Sponsor.

Due to the generosity of those who attended the lunch £1,435 was raised through the raffle and was donated to Barnardo's.

The Condor Office service team enjoyed a trip to Berlin in September as reward for all their hard graft this year. The trip, as you may have come to expect, was not without hiccups; indeed the team even managed to miss their flight out of the UK!

Luckily they boarded the next plane and had a fab time sampling Germany's culture.

Lord-Lieutenant Dame Mary Fagan presents Hamble-based technology company Point Source with Queen’s Award The Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire, Dame Mary Fagan, presented Point Source with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise today, in recognition of the company’s achievements in international trade.

VIP guests including Peter Robertson, Vice-President of Southampton & Fareham Chamber of Commerce, Chris Huhne MP, Mrs Pamela Holden-Brown Mayor of Eastleigh and Tim Knight Chairman of Hampshire County Council.

Condor are celebrating winning the contract to supply Carnival UK’s new flagship offices in Southampton. The Cruise line company which includes Cunard, Princess and Seabourn brands has taken the opportunity of relocating to undertake a total review of it’s print and copying provision. There will be over 1000 staff in the impressive purpose built offices and in addition to providing their staff with state of the art facilities Carnival wanted to control the environmental impact and cost of printing in the organisation. In addition to the Canon hardware, Condor are implementing the latest software solutions to reduce wastage, paper use and cost.

Since the turn of the century Canon have been categorising their partners based on a balanced measurement of customer satisfaction, technical capability and service processes. Condor are very proud of the fact that we have always received the highest categorisation and we are celebrating doing so again.

Under the new scheme Condor are one of only five dealers in the country (Out of 115) to be classified as an advanced solutions partner.

Ignoring the iffy weather forecast the entrepid staff at Condor took to the seas on a blustery Thursday night in August. Looking every inch like a team of crack commandos the four Rigid Inflatable Boats whisked the team over to Cowes.

A fish and chip supper, several beers and a quick boogie later we were back in the boats to return to Hamble under the cover of darkness. A good night had by all!

The Condor Sales team recently enjoyed a weekend away to celebrate a great performance over the last year. Inspired by a character in the hotel’s brochure, the team were sporting a long socks and shorts look for the trip. Most of our new friends on the island seemed to think we cut quite a dash. Others didn’t!

Condor Director Peter Robertson is also a Director of the Southampton Chamber of Commerce. In that role Peter has, in the past, led a trade mission to the Chinese Port of Qingdao, which is twinned with Southampton. Qingdao will be hosting this years Olympic sailing events and the Chamber was keen to send a goodluck message. Peter has been taking lessons in Mandarin and duly stepped up to the mark. We haven’t a clue if his message of goodwill made any sense but we did receive half a crispy duck with special fried rice 10 minutes later!

See the speech video in full here.

The service team were looking fantastically festive at this months service meeting.

David is quizzed by ex BBC Jeff Randall from the Telegraph and discusses business, tax, government and how small businesses can succeed in the UK. Read the telegraph article...

Another successful service trip completed, this time the picturesque town of Bruges in Belgium. Late nights, lots to eat and drink and a host of historic venues to visit "what a weekend". On reflection although a quieter type of city than Barcelona we still had lots of fun linked with fond memories. The one that sticks in my mind will be leaving a bar in the early hours of Saturday morning with Steve one of the engineers wobbling and knocking over a complete row of parked bicycles, to make it worse he was wearing a ladies fitted jacket which obviously belonged to someone else. A good time was had by all. Thanks again to Condor for rewarding dedicated hard work!

Tony made the news recently with his amazing act of heroism which saved a man's life.

His vital intervention led to the safe rescue of a driver who has begun to fit whilst at the wheel on a busy road, and Tony has justifiably been hailed as a local hero. Read the full article here...

IT Support Specialist Barrie Bradley has donned his platforms and flares for the festive season. He can be seen at the Carrington House Hotel in the run up to Christmas as part of an Abba tribute band. Watch this space for the photos!