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Guttering - Principality Plastics Warehouse

The gutter supply section of the Principality Plastics Warehouse is one of our busiest departments. Our extensive range of plastic guttering including cast iron effect guttering is in constant demand. Suitable for new-build houses, renovations and standard gutter replacement in industrial and residential settings, we sell some of the best quality gutters online. Guttering is in stock here in our warehouses in Wales and available for rapid delivery anywhere in the UK

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How digital transformation can and will boost your profits

Digital transformation has become an indispensable strategy for companies seeking to stay competitive and drive financial success.

By harnessing the power of technology, companies will not only increase revenue, but also achieve significant cost savings.

Here, I highlight 5 ways companies without a digital transformation strategy are losing money. And I’ll also give you 7 key ways digital transformation can (and will) save you money and increase your profits.

5 ways your company is losing mon

Why business efficiency is so much more than an industry buzzword?

Why business efficiency is so much more than an industry buzzword?

In today’s world it is significant to think about the #businessefficiencies even more, identify business units that are cash cows (low share and high growth) and review the potential of investing in this area to become stars (high share, high growth) and make your business more successful.

Over time, business processes can become outdated or inefficient due to changes in technology, market dynamics, or customer expectations. In

Why digital transformation can help your company thrive in 2023

Change is the only constant in today’s business world. To remain competitive and provide high-value customer experience, companies must streamline, scale and deliver without compromising on efficiency, profitability or growth. Which is why most Fortune Global 500 companies have either completed their digital transformation process or are actively considering it.

A recent survey by Fortune Business Insights revealed that the estimated growth rate of digital transformation (DX) is projected to ri

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We have been specialists in bringing people and technology together to create change for the better since 1965. Since then, we have had a positive impact on many moments of change, transforming the ways that people and technology connect and create value. This moment of unlimited connectivity, wherever we are, is one of extraordinary empowerment. It brings us a step closer to everything we wish to be and the lives we wish to live; in the office, in our homes… in The Cloud.

Ancient Opulence: The Best Luxury Hotels in Cairo, Egypt, for 2023

Photo courtesy Four Seasons Hotel Cairo at The First Residence

Contributor Gina Baksa, a frequent visitor to Egypt and the Giza Pyramids, shares her list of the best luxury hotels in Cairo, famed the world over as the city of a thousand minarets

Updated April 11, 2023 / Commissions may be earned from our affiliate partner links.

Known for good reason as the “city of a thousand minarets”, modern-day Cairo offers a surprisingly broad array of luxurious accommodations. That said, not all luxury

Luxury Egypt Tour Offers Rare Access to Pyramids & Temples

Join tour leader and travel writer Gina Baksa on a bespoke luxury Egypt tour of the country’s pyramids and temples, including rare access to some of the country’s best-known historic landmarks and a Nile river cruise.

Imagine enjoying your own private cruise down the majestic River Nile on a traditional dahabiya sailboat… berthing overnight at secret islands, swimming in the river, far from the overcrowded and dirty moorings of the larger cruise ships. Imagine alighting at enigmatic temples suc

Is it Safe to Tour the Giza Pyramids in Egypt? Read on to Fond out!

All photos of the Giza Pyramids by Gina Baksa

Tour leader and travel writer Gina Baksa visited Egypt in preparation for her 2022 tour of the Giza Pyramids in Egypt, which also includes the country’s top temples, tombs, and a River Nile cruise. Gina reports back from the Giza Plateau, home to the Pyramids and Sphinx…

Egypt. Evocative, mysterious, ancient… timeless. There is nowhere in the world like it. A buffer between Africa and the Middle East, this desert country of some 103 million people

Top Boutique Hotels in Brighton England and Unique Places to Stay

Updated Nov 15, 2022 / Commissions may be earned from our affiliate partner links

Just an hour’s train ride south of London, Brighton is one of the UK’s most popular seaside vacation retreats. A former fishing village at the foot of the South Downs in East Sussex, the city became a fashionable health resort in the 18th century, frequented by royalty and celebrities.

Today, Brighton’s luxury hotels, cafés, restaurants, shopping and nightlife make it the perfect staycation beach holiday. Ideal f

The Best Brighton Restaurants & Dining Experiences

Looking for the best dining experiences in Brighton? Contributor and local resident Gina Baksa shares a few of her favourite Brighton restaurants

Brighton restaurants are, like its local population, fairly eclectic in nature and renowned for their variety. As a seaside resort, you’ll find many seafood restaurants in Brighton and Hove serving traditional fish and chips – and even oysters

Indian, Thai, Greek, and Italian restaurants are well represented in the city, as well as burger bars and fa

The Top Luxury Muskoka Cottage Rentals for 2023

Just a two-hour drive north of Toronto, you’ll find the famed Muskoka cottage vacation area. Imagine 1,600 lakes, hundreds of acres of pristine forest wilderness, and a collection of charming towns like Huntsville, Bracebridge, and Gravenhurst.

Celebrities and the cognoscenti have been flocking to Ontario’s most popular cottage country region for more than a century, attracted by its abundant natural beauty as well as its classy hotels and traditional family lodges, award-wining restaurants – c

Transforming tequila – Osborne Pike on the Casa Sauza redesign

Gina Baksa: Tell us about Beam Global’s brief for Casa Sauza XA.

Osborne Pike: Essentially they wanted XA (extra anjeo) to become the flagship brand for this new range – an aged sipping tequila with premium expression.

Until then, Tres Generaciones was the most upmarket tequila Sauza had produced.

They were looking for a design that embodied the rich history of the Sauza family together with a sense of connoisseurship that the brand offered.

GB: How does sipping tequila differ from the regul

The 13 best apps for rail passengers

If you own a smartphone, chances are you regularly use one or two apps for business and pleasure. The $20bn app market has exploded, thanks to tablet and smartphone technology, and created thousands of jobs in small app companies around the globe. Apple has around 775,000 available on its App Store (300,000 of which are iPad dedicated), while Google Play offers around the same amount. Last year Apple announced downloads of more than 35 billion.

Travel apps have grown exponentially, providing a

Pulling off a packaging redesign: learning from Innocent and Tropicana

With so much choice available, brand managers are constantly striving to breathe new life into an established product and increase customer awareness through re-branding campaigns.

Yet, according to a March 2013 report from PRS Research, only 50% of new packaging designs actually succeed in the marketplace, most often due to simple lack of research and inadequate package testing.

The reality is that pulling off a redesign is not easy, and requires both inspiration and an acute awareness of cur

Plain cigarette design – anti-packaging takes centre stage

Nominated in the graphics category for the Museum’s prestigious ‘Design of the Year’ award, the bland, muddy green cigarette packaging – with plain text bearing the brand name only – has become the poster child for anti-branding and anti-packaging. Featuring graphic images of ill babies, diseased feet and gums, and dying cancer sufferers, the designs aren’t featureless and they still do pack a powerful message – smoking kills.

Curator of Designs of the Year 2013, Pete Collard, gave his reasons
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