http://www.creativeemporium.co.uk/blog Welcome to our blog where we feature our latest projects, events, industry related news and special offers. Don’t forget, you can subscribe to our monthly email newsletter or our RSS feed. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:52:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Its the start of the football season and with three 6-0 scores in the first weekend, this season looks set to be an exciting one! We are getting into the spirit of the new season by having a Creative Emporium Fantasy Football league which several of our team have joined in ... http://www.creativeemporium.co.uk/blog/2010/09/start-of-the-football-season/   On Tuesday, Big Brother fans saw worthy contestant Josie win the final ever Big Brother. As well as picking up a cheque for £100,000, Josie has now been given the opportunity to become the most popular winner ever by entering Ultimate BB, three weeks in the house with some of ... http://www.creativeemporium.co.uk/blog/2010/08/we-welcome-a-new-housemate-to-the-creative-emporium-house/ Our sister company Argon Promotions, one of the UK's largest online promotional merchandise distributors, have just launched their new website at www.argonpromo.co.uk [caption id="attachment_636" align="alignnone" width="353" caption="Above: The new Argon Promotions website"][/caption] The website redesign comes at an exciting time for Argon Promotions as they look to capitalise on the success they achieved ... http://www.creativeemporium.co.uk/blog/2010/08/new-website-goes-live-at-argon-promotions/ Cycling to work is in the news again after the launch last Friday of the London Cycle Hire Scheme. Sponsored by Barclays in a £25m five year deal, the scheme sees 5,000 specially built bicycles stationed at a number of different docking bays in central London.   [caption id="attachment_655" align="aligncenter" width="162" caption="Above: A ... http://www.creativeemporium.co.uk/blog/2010/08/cycling-to-work-in-the-news-again/ You may have heard of the Cycle to Work Scheme. Essentially it allows you to hire a top quality bike at a discounted, tax saving rate, with a possibility to buy at the end of the lease. The tax breaks are beneficial for both employer and employee (aside from the ... http://www.creativeemporium.co.uk/blog/2010/07/cycle-to-work-scheme-a-success/ As our recent story on brainstrust highlighted, its easy to get involved with a charity whether you are a business or individual. brainstrust runs several events throughout the year that are open to everyone. If you don't want to participate in an event there are lots of other ways you ... http://www.creativeemporium.co.uk/blog/2010/07/getting-involved-with-charities/ With 2012 just around the corner, now is an ideal time to start planning your marketing campaign for the Olympic Games and here at Creative Emporium, we can help... Showing support for Team GB and the London Olympic and Paralympic Games is an ideal way to create a connection with your ... http://www.creativeemporium.co.uk/blog/2010/07/london-2012-is-coming/ As well as raising money for charity with the recent efforts of our running team, we have also helped as a company using our printing skills to donate t-shirts for two worthwhile causes: Donation of T-Shirts to Opportunity Marketing We provided 50 printed T-Shirts for Opportunity Marketing who were running the Jane ... http://www.creativeemporium.co.uk/blog/2010/07/t-shirts-for-charity/ [caption id="attachment_606" align="aligncenter" width="501" caption="Above: The team minus Darren and Dave"][/caption]  Congratulations to the Creative Emporium and Argon Promotions team on completing the Jane Tomlinson 10K Leeds run on Sunday! Everyone running was able to complete the course in just under an hour- Special mention to Dave Lister, our Systems Administrator who ... http://www.creativeemporium.co.uk/blog/2010/07/leeds-10k-run-completed/  On July 4th, members of the Creative Emporium/Argon Promotions team are running the Jayne Tomlinson 10K run in Leeds. The team are running for St Gemmas Hospice in Leeds. Being competitive is fueling the teams training and they all hope to finish within an hour! The runners are Darren (Managing Director), Gav (Sales Manager), ... http://www.creativeemporium.co.uk/blog/2010/06/sponsor-us-charity-run-for-st-gemmas/