01732 759725 12 BULLETIN Brother supports safe food labelling Brother has partnered with food labelling and plant-based packaging specialist Planglow to support food safety and compliance in catering and hospitality. The collaboration is one of a series of partnerships recently announced to enhance its specialist labelling offering. The new relationship sees Brother’s range of labelling solutions become fully compatible with Planglow’s LabelLogic Live app. This enables food service users to create, amend, update and print labels with ease, as they move to enhance food safety and compliance. The subscription-based service supports individual cafés, restaurants and delis through to multi-site caterers. Customers can create and roll-out data and templates across their network from head office, without having to monitor for consistency or errors. The platform also allows bespoke food orders to be sent straight from the till to the printer, creating clear, accurate and durable labels for packaging, key for food service operators to achieve best-practice compliance following the introduction of food labelling legislation, Natasha’s Law. It requires clear signposting of any potential allergens in clear and distinct text on pre-packaged for direct sale products. Aaron Hopkinson, Product Manager for labelling at Brother UK, said: “Planglow adds to a host of specialist partners, from software providers to expert technology resellers, which complement our comprehensive portfolio of print devices. These partnerships deliver the expertise, technology and supporting software that help print partners provide the support commercial kitchens need to label products more productively, accurately and compliantly.” www.brother.co.uk Ricoh receives top score Ricoh has received an ‘A’ score as part of CDP's annual Supplier Engagement Rating (SER) and been placed on the CDP Supplier Engagement Rating Leaderboard for the third year in a row. CDP's annual SER is designed to evaluate and spur action on corporate supply chain engagement on climate issues, based on the CDP climate change questionnaire. The CDP celebrates the highestrated companies in the Supplier Engagement Leaderboard, of which Ricoh features in the top 8% (approx. 650 assessed companies). Ricoh aims to achieve a zero carbon society by reducing GHG emissions in the entire supply chain by 40% (procurement, use, and transportation categories), compared to 2015, by 2030. This environmental target has been certified as 1.5°C targets by the SBT Initiative (SBTi). In addition to promoting decarbonisation initiatives within the Group, Ricoh also holds briefing sessions for suppliers to ensure that they meet the GHG reduction targets aligning with the SBTi 2°C criteria. Under the Comet Circle concept established in 1994, Ricoh has provided recycled products leveraging its 3R (reduce, reuse, recycle) technology and global collection system it has cultivated over years. Along with these initiatives, Ricoh recognises its active support for suppliers' decarbonising activities and information disclosure are highly regarded internationally and led to this recognition. www.ricoh.co.uk Major player Konica Minolta has been named a ‘major player’ in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Security Solutions and Services Hardcopy 2022-2023 Vendor Assessment. The report notes its Intelligent Connected Workplace business philosophy as a key strength. The Intelligent Connected Workplace is a customer-centric distributed-work model to enable both onsite and mobile work with 24/7 access to data anytime, from anywhere, to help customers on their digital transformation journey. Konica Minolta has combined its print and IT services businesses and views print products as other IoT devices that are part of the IT framework. The MarketScape report states: “[Konica Minolta] takes a holistic view of security and includes print assets within the construct of an overall view of IT security.” IDC also notes: “Konica Minolta’s roots in print and document security date back almost 20 years when the firm decided as a print device manufacturer that it would offer essential security features such as hard drive encryption and hard drive overwrite to meet military defence standards.” www.konicaminolta.co.uk Sustainability recognition Konica Minolta has been awarded the gold level recognition medal in the EcoVadis sustainability ratings for 2023, putting it amongst the top 5% of companies in its industry. The EcoVadis sustainability ratings recognise corporate responsibility practices, and the rating reflects Konica Minolta’s sustained and committed focus on being a highly sustainable and socially responsible business. 2023 marks the eighth successive year that the company has participated in the independent audit process and been awarded a high ranking. www.konicaminolta.co.uk Toshiba and Intuitive collaboration Toshiba has introduced Intuitive for DocuWare, a new AP automation dashboard solution, created in collaboration with software partner Intuitive Business Intelligence. Intuitive for DocuWare offers in-depth reporting on DocuWare’s end-to-end AP automation solution, in the form of three ‘out of the box’ dashboards. These pre-built, customisable dashboards give accounts payable teams the full picture of the invoice approval process, including workflow status updates and alerts, and access to invaluable data on staff and supplier performance. These powerful insights are displayed in user-friendly, visual dashboard reports which have been designed with the specific requirements of AP professionals in mind. www.toshibatec.co.uk 2 0 2 3 2 0 2 3 For more information please email [email protected]
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