Euro Car Parts is the UK’s leading distributor of car parts and accessories with over 200 sites across the country. With demand for its services higher than ever, the business has more than 500,000 branded totes in transit as it moves parts around the UK. However, its main warehouse in Tamworth found itself accumulating over 20,000 totes, all heavily contaminated with oil and excessive labelling making them unfit for use. As well as creating an eyesore outside the warehouse, the unusable totes were causing the business a financial challenge.

phs Compliance has launched a new range of testing bundles to help businesses cut the cost of their electrical and fire safety obligations. The Compliance Testing Bundles allow businesses to select from 12 different packages of PAT tests, fixed wire electrical tests and fire safety tests, with some bundles offering savings of up to 40% compared to individual test prices. The testing bundles also aim to minimise disruption for businesses by carrying out the different compliance assessments on the same date, ensuring minimal downtime.

Tracy Burtwell has been appointed as the new Managing Director of phs Compliance. Based in Warrington, phs Compliance is one of the UK’s leading providers of facilities management and compliance services. It works with over 35,000 business sites across the country providing everything they need to stay safe and compliant, including electrical testing services and electrical vehicle facilities.

phs Greenleaf has won three industry-leading awards for its work in interior and exterior landscaping for businesses. The Plants at Work Awards, run by the association representing interior landscapers, awarded phs Greenleaf with gold awards for its design and installation work for the Speedy Innovation Centre in Milton Keyes and its sustainable Christmas designs for Novotel London Blackfriars. The team also collected a special Goodwill Award for their charity work with Ronald McDonald House Cardiff.

phs Wastekit is working with one of the UK’s biggest waste management companies to help process thousands of tonnes of material for recycling every year, diverting the waste from landfill. Specialising in commercial recycling, Total Recycling Services has three large-scale sites across the UK and works with big names including Akzonobel, Gestamp and JCB to manage a variety of different waste streams, including liquid and hazardous waste, general waste and recycling. It processes up to 100,000 tonnes of recycling every year.

phs Wastekit has expanded its strategic development team as the business continues to grow across the country. Part of the phs Group, phs Wastekit is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of balers and compactors, helping businesses to reduce their waste costs. Mark Little has been appointed as business development manager, tasked with developing large-scale national business opportunities. Mark has a long history in business development and hospitality, having spent many years in sales in the beer and food industries. Mark will be specialising in logistics, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, industry and the HORECA sector across the UK.

phs Teacrate has appointed a new Sales Director as the business continues to expand across the UK. Becky Brown joins the team at the UK’s leading crate services provider with over 20 years’ experience in packaging sales. She has spent the last seven years as UK Convenience Sales Director for a US listed global business specialising in printed cartons for some of the world’s biggest international brands. At phs Teacrate, Becky will manage an external sales team of six people based across the UK working with a variety of businesses, including the food industry, to meet their product moving and storage needs.

A new collaboration between phs Group and GreenTeck Global is offering UK companies a chemical-free way to destroy, rather than mask, lingering bathroom-related odours. From July, the new ECOFLOW will be available across the UK via the country’s leading hygiene provider, phs Group, in an exclusive five-year contract. Using innovative, patented, diamond flow-cell technology, ECOFLOW converts ordinary tap water on demand into ozonated water; a natural, chemical-free liquid with strong oxidisation properties. The reduced maintenance requirements or need for additional products, such as cistern sanitisers and air fresheners, make it ideal for high footfall areas, from train stations and shopping centres to schools and stadia.

Christmas 2022 is all about creating a ‘social media moment’, according to one of the UK’s leading commercial Christmas tree providers. phs Greenleaf predicts a trend towards large ‘Instagramable’ Christmas displays rather than individual trees this festive season, as many businesses leans more towards influencers and social media to drive sales and repeat business. “It’s not just about putting a large Christmas tree in your reception,” says Emily Vernon, Managing Director of phs Greenleaf. “It’s about creating something unique or inspiring that employees, customers and visitors feel compelled to share on social media which raises awareness of your business.”

One of the UK’s leading PPE suppliers is warning businesses of a change in personal protective equipment law which could catch them out if they are not prepared. From 6 April 2022, the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 2022 will extend employers’ PPE duties, requiring them to provide appropriate equipment for free to casual workers, who were not previously covered under the same regulations that have been in force since 1992.