December 2009 - Bournemouth sleeps safe

The 30+ superheroes of Condor Office descended to Bournemouth for their Xmas party at the Wessex hotel and saved the town from boredom.

Bournemouth slept easy as the town was patrolled by these strapping heroes...

November 2009 - Condor plays Father Xmas at local school

Chris Braniff, a member of Condor’s sales team, was asked if he would carry out the Father Xmas role at Glenfield Infants School.

October 2009 - Condor goes pink for charity

Admin staff at Condor Office Solutions dress in pink for Breast Cancer Campaign and Rose Road Charity. The team raised £200 for these great causes.

October 2009 - Tree Planting Session

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.

For more information about this, please contact us.

September 2009 - Canon launches REVOLUTIONARY print, scan and document workflow platform - Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE

Southampton, 30 September, 2009: Condor, in conjunction with Canon UK, world leader in digital imaging technology announce the launch of Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE, its new advanced multifunctional print (MFP) platform.

These machines have been designed to address the increasing demands of today’s business environment. Suitable for organisations of all sizes, from SMEs to large corporates, the devices help companies become more efficient through easier integration into their document workflows as well as achieving lower operating costs, improved document security and a lower environmental impact.

Rob King, Condor Office Solutions, Director, says "Documents are the lifeblood of any organisation. Companies of all sizes use documents to communicate ideas, share creativity, back-up work, or formalise contracts. The imageRUNNER ADVANCE range are true multi-role devices that recognise the importance of documents in business.”

Advantages are:-

• Cheaper to run
• High quality print
• Easy to operate, large customisable control panel
• More secure print
• Low emissions
• Uses recycled materials in the manufacture
• Microsoft and Adobe seamless integration

Watch an animated presentation of the exciting new features of the Canon imageRUNNER series.

September 2009 - Condor's Peter Robertson duties as Vice-President of Chamber of Commerce

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, attended the ceremony, which was held at the company’s headquarters and high-tech manufacturing base in Hamble.

September 2009 - Condor sponsor successful Chamber meeting for Southampton Boat Show 2009

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.

September 2009 - Service Team trip to Berlin

The Condor Office service team enjoyed atrip 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, etc...

August 2009 -Condor win contract to supply Carnival Cruises

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.

August 2009 -Top of the class again!

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.

August 2009 - Admin Team go to Isle of Wight in style

The Condor Office Admin team enjoyed another day out to the Isle of Wight on a luxury power boat. As an annual treat for all their hard work looking after customers and the sales and service team, it's certainly a nice reward for the team!

July 2009 - Office Extended

Yee ha! After three months living hand in hand with the builders our extension is finished. Goodbye cement dust and scaffolding and hello much larger stores, workshop and office space. We have been bursting at the seams for some time and the extra space will be a great boost.

March 2009 - Building works starts on the new HQ extension

Work is set to commence on the 9th of March on the new 2 story extension to the Condor offices in Southampton. This new addition to the building will provide us with extra office capacity and additional storage and workshop space on the ground floor. We will put some pictures up once the structure is taking shape.

December 2008 - Mike loses his head at xmas party!

November 2008 - Fly on the wall footage - Condor board meeting revealed

Condor have opened their doors to a media crew and have had a recent board meeting filmed for a 'documentary'. Watch all of the revealing and fascinating going ons and see what a wild bunch we really are.

See the video in full here.

Condor births

Richard & Amanda Wakely 28/10/2008 - Iris Belle Wakely (left photo)

Chris & Natasha Braniff 14/9/2008 - Charlie James Braniff (right photo)

Condor on FaceBook

Keep up to date with all the very latest news and find out what the team get up to out of hours! The page has lots and lots of photos from our infamous team outings so go and have a peek around!

Our Facebook page is updated frequently so keep an eye on the Condor Facebook page. You can view the page online and become a member too.

October 2008 - Condor staff results for the Bupa Great South Run

Our team took part on Sunday 26th October and finished with the following results:
Andy Francis 1hr 43secs
Rob Birch 1hr 24secs
Linda Birch 1 hr 27secs

Congratulations to our runners!

The Great South Run was sponsored by Condor Office Solutions, in aid of Hampshire Deaf Association (HDA).

October 2008 - Melanie Slade to run in the Bupa Great South Run sponsored by Condor

Melanie Slade, girlfriend of Arsenal and England player Theo Walcott, is to run for the Hampshire Deaf Association in the Great South Run.

Although Melanie Slade (girlfriend of Arsenal FC player Theo Walcott) lives and studies in London, she hasn’t forgotten her Hampshire roots.

She will be running in the Great South Run, sponsored by Condor Office Solutions, in aid of Hampshire Deaf Association (HDA). [Full Story]

September 2008 - Service Team explore Amsterdam

Amsterdam was this year’s annual team incentive reward to the service department and what a great time we had. Cycle tours, bars, museums and the traditional Dutch café all had big parts to play in our weekend. We even frequented a traditional Windmill and Clog making factory outside the city. Not to mention the eye opening sights and goings on of Amsterdam at night.

August 2008 - Admin Team go to Isle of Wight in style

On the 27th of August the Admin team had a day living like millionaires on board a super posh power boat. They had a day off from looking after customers and the sales and service team and spent the day on the solent in the lap of luxury. Lunch at the lovely George Hotel, Yarmouth topped off a great day.

August 2008 - Rib night 19th August

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!

June 2008 - Sales Team visit Jersey

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!

January 2008 - Condor’s Peter Robertson wishes the Chinese good luck for the Olympics

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.

Condor Weddings

Chris & Natasha Braniff 15-6-7

Condor births

Richard & Amanda Wakely 6-6-06 Lily-Ella (photo)

Steve & Janine Harvey 20-4-7 Daisy 6lb 3oz

01 Feb 2008 - James joins the team

Everybody at Condor welcomes James Hardman our newest recruit into the company. Although James has been with us some 20 weeks every day of that has been spent at College. Although still having to visit the College every Wednesday most of his day will be made up of on the job workshop training. Starting with good customer handling techniques, good mechanical work practices and installation removal procedures. Our goal is to delight our customers whilst having fun but working hard. And so the real work begins!

Good luck to James from all the staff at Condor.

07 Dec 2007 - Seeing Red

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

November 2007 - David is interviewed for the Daily Telegraph

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...

15 Nov 2007 - New Coats

New Coats The service team were today modeling their new Condor jackets. They were cutting a fine dash at the launch of the 2008 collection. Stella Macartney, designer of the new jacket said "My inspiration for this jacket originates on the ski slopes but these boys look HOT!!!"

11 Oct 2007 Bruges trip Service Team - Man leaves club in the early hours of Saturday morning and knocks over row of push bikes

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!

28 Sep 2007 - Rock Paper Scissors trip to Canada

Our boys flew the flag for England at the World Championships. See how they did here (video link).

10 Jan 2007 - Condor Engineer hailed for roadside heroics

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...

01 Dec 2006 - Barrie is Bjorn Again!

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!

01 Nov 2006 - Man loses trousers in Barcelona

As a thank you for their great efforts and to foster team spirit our service department have a weekend away each year. This years trip was to Barcelona and took in all the sights and sounds of this great city including the Football Stadium, Los Ramblas, and the Cathedral. Highlight of the weekend however was without doubt an incident at the beach in the early hours of Saturday night. Undetterred by Wintry waters and no doubt bolstered by the San Miguel a number of the team braved a skinny dip. Potential disaster struck when some clothing was stolen by local tearaways. Spirits were not to be dampened however and special mention must go to Andy who spent the rest of the night with a strategically tied jumper instead of his trousers.