We remain open

We are remaining open and fully operational.

I am pleased to confirm that we will remain fully open and operational during the current national lockdown commencing on 5th January 2021.

Our site is Covid-secure and we will be working to Government guidelines to ensure the safety of our colleagues at all times.

We will continue to offer our full suite of services including design, print, production, promotional sites, installations, direct mail, web2print and multichannel marketing.

We have over 150 social distancing solutions available to purchase in a range of designs and colours on our dedicated social distancing solutions website and online shop.

Our business will continue with all normal lines of communication open. Please continue to contact us via our usual phone number 020 8544 5500 and email hello@wearepositive.com

Yours faithfully,

Danny Sullivan
CEO
POSITIVE+

This Christmas POSITIVE+ is working in partnership with Chestertons to support St Mungo’s, so those who have experienced homelessness this year can have a warm and delicious meal on Christmas day.

Charity is a big part of POSITIVE + and we are passionate about how we can give back to the community, which is why we are launching Positive Heroes where you will see the team at POSITIVE+ fund raising for our clients’ charities and the ones close to our hearts.

Our client Chestertons’ main charity partner is St Mungo’s.  Usually, their teams would visit shelters and housing centres at this time of year, spreading Christmas cheer with gifts and decorations.

To adhere to social distancing guidelines, this year Chestertons are taking donations, so instead they can provide those who have experienced homelessness this year with a warm Christmas dinner.

St Mungo’s provide a bed and support to more than 2,700 people a night who are either homeless or at risk, and work to prevent homelessness, helping about 25,000 people a year.

They support men and women through more than 300 projects including emergency, hostel and supportive housing projects, advice services and specialist physical health, mental health, skills and work services.

For further information or to make a donation please visit mungos.org/

Positive and Colouration become POSITIVE+. Building on the success of our year-long partnership, our two companies are moving forward as one new brand.

Positive’s Danny Sullivan has been appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of POSITIVE+ and Colouration’s Tony Dennington has been appointed Chief Commercial Officer (COO). 

Danny Sullivan said, “By bringing the two companies together we have been able to offer all of our clients a wider range of creative solutions, with more capacity for larger projects as well as access to the most sustainable design and manufacturing processes”.

Family run Positive, which was established in 1993 provides design, print, direct mail, web2print and marketing solutions for clients in the retail, media, financial, charity, cosmetics and health and wellbeing sectors. 

Whilst Colouration, founded as a family business in 2001, has evolved to become a market leader in delivering high end displays and visual solutions to the beauty, fragrance, retail and events industries.

In 2019 the two companies partnered to form a larger print group and launched their Positive Planet sustainability initiative, with Colouration re-locating to Positive’s newly expanded Greater London site.

Tony Dennington said, “We have been working as one team for over a year and we felt now was the right time to move forward as one fresh new brand and to advertise all of our solutions on one all-encompassing new website.

Our focus moving through and out of covid-19 is all about sustainability. We want to dramatically reduce our impact on the environment by offering measurable alternatives to single use materials. By using greener products, recyclable plastics & adhesives and some very creative cardboard constructible floor and counter display ideas we will be able to offer greener solutions alongside traditionally produced POS items to allow our customers to control the impact we have on the environment.”

“The partnership has worked extremely well, and we certainly are open to future collaborations”, Danny Sullivan added.    

Positive’s Mike Sullivan and Jay Sullivan have also been appointed to the POSITIVE+ team of directors. 

For For further information please call Tony Dennington, Chief Commercial Officer, POSITIVE+ on 020 8544 5500 or email tony@wearepositive.com

Image shows Danny Sullivan, CEO, POSITIVE+ (left) and Tony Dennington, COO, POSITIVE+ (right).

Colouration, who are part of the Positive Print Group, are delighted to be a gold sponsor for this year’s Fragrance Foundation Awards.  The winners will be announced at 6pm on Thursday 27^th August via You Tube. 

Set up in the UK in 1992 the Awards recognise excellence within the Fragrance arena, from Packaging and Advertising through to Best New Fragrance and are known as the Oscars of the Fragrance Industry.

The finalists include:

BEST NEW FRAGRANCE – MEN

• Creed – Aventus Cologne
• Dior – Sauvage Parfum
• Diptyque – Eau de Minthé
• Le Labo- Baie 19
• Montblanc – Explorer
• Tiffany & Co – Tiffany & Love for Him
• Tom Ford Beauty – Lavender Extreme

BEST NEW FRAGRANCE – WOMEN

• Acqua Di Parma – Yuzu
• Hermés – Un Jardin Sur La Lagune
• Jo Malone London – Poppy & Barley Cologne
• Le Labo – Baie 19
• Tiffany & Co – Tiffany & Love for Her
• Tom Ford Beauty – Soleil Neige
• Yves Saint Laurent – Libre

To see the full list of finalists please visit fragrancefoundationawards.com

COLOURATION offer the complete spectrum of in-house production facilities, from bespoke and premium large format print to acrylic fabrication and cardboard engineering as well as manufacturing counter units and floor standing permanent and semi-permanent Point of Sale for clients in the beauty, fragrance, retail and events industries.

For further information, please contact:

Tony Dennington, Managing Director, Colouration

020 8946 4466

tonydennington@colouration.london

colouration.london

Boris Johnson has urged people living in Britain to go back into work if they can, signalling a significant shift away from the current government policy.

Mr Johnson said in an online question and answer session with the public on 10^th July: ‘I want people to go back to work as carefully as possible. It’s very important that people should be going back to work if they can now’.

HSE Social Distancing Advice

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published the following guidelines on making workplaces COVID-secure:

Where possible you should keep people 2m apart. If this is not viable, keeping 1m apart with risk mitigation is acceptable.

These are some of the things you can do:

• use floor tape or paint to mark work areas
• provide signage to remind people to keep a 2 m distance
• use screens to create a physical barrier between people
• have people working side-by-side rather than face-to-face
• limit movement of people (rotating between jobs and equipment, using lifts and work vehicles, in high-traffic areas like corridors, turnstiles and walkways, allow only essential trips within buildings and between sites).

For further information visit: https://www.hse.gov.uk/coronavirus/working-safely/covid-secure.htm

Workplace solutions

In May we launched a range of innovative social distancing products to help businesses keep their employees and customers safe.

From floor tape and vinyls to signage and protective screens sneeze, we have developed a range of specialist solutions for maintaining social distancing in the workplace.

View our workplace range here: https://www.socialdistancingsolutions.uk/offices

For further information about our social distancing solutions visit socialdistancingsolutions.uk, email hello@socialdistancingsolutions.uk or call 020 8544 5500.

From Saturday 4th July, the Prime Minister has announced that pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines.

In order to begin restoring the arts and cultural sector, some leisure facilities and tourist attractions may also reopen, if they can do so safely – this includes outdoor gyms and playgrounds, cinemas, museums, galleries, theme parks and arcades, as well as libraries, social clubs, places of worship and community centres.

Following a review, the Prime Minister has also set out that where it is not possible to stay two metres apart, guidance will allow people to keep a social distance of ‘one metre plus’. This means staying one metre apart, plus mitigations which reduce the risk of transmission.

Close proximity venues such as nightclubs, soft-play areas, indoor gyms, swimming pools, water parks, bowling alleys and spas will need to remain closed for now. The Government is continuing to work with these sectors to establish taskforces to help them to become COVID Secure and reopen as soon as possible.

Last month the Positive Print Group (Positive & Colouration) launched a new range of innovative social distancing solutions, with specific ranges for the retail, hospitality and office sectors.

Large Format Printing

With sneeze and cough screens, partition screens, floor stickers, posters and hygiene solutions, our hospitality range has been designed to make premises safer across inside and outside communal areas. For further info visit: socialdistancingsolutions.uk/food-beverage.

New 1m +Products

From floor graphics to roller banners, signage and posters, over 50 products promoting the new 1 metre social distancing guidance are available to order from our online shop in a range of sizes and in two colours. Order now from our online shop.

For further information about our social distancing solutions visit socialdistancingsolutions.uk, email hello@socialdistancingsolutions.uk or call 020 8544 5500.

We were proud to produce 50,000 thank you cards on behalf of Clarins UK for special thank you kits of nourishing Clarins products, which are being delivered to NHS frontline staff across the UK.

Clarins UK are in the process of delivering all 50,000 kits containing nourishing plant formulas and comforting aromas to the amazing frontline doctors, nurses and critical care workers dealing with COVID-19 patients in hospitals across the UK.

The kits will contain Clarins products including Hand & Nail Treatment Cream, Day & Night Creams and Shower Gels, and will be delivered directly to hospitals nationwide.

Clarins hope that this small gesture will help soothe dry skin and provide just a little sense of calm in what is otherwise an incredibly difficult time.

Colouration and Positive understand that some services and sectors will still need to have work produced throughout the current health crisis.

In order to adhere to Covid-19 social distancing guidelines we have introduced a range of social distancing measures, such as implementing a skeleton shift pattern in our factory.

Our businesses will continue with all normal lines of communication open by way of email and telephone and we will work to complete all orders that are placed with us during these exceptional times.

Congratulations to POSITIVE’s Managing Director, Danny Sullivan on his 10k Charity Run.

Danny had originally planned to take part in Cancer Research’s UK London Winter Run, which was unfortunately cancelled due to adverse weather conditions.

Undeterred Danny and his daughter Jade completed the 10k run one day early, with Danny finishing in 58:52 and Jade in 56:13.

Danny, who has so far raised £790 for Cancer Research UK, would like to thank all of the POSITIVE colleagues, clients and suppliers that have sponsored him.

To sponsor Danny click here. 

The Positive Print Group was delighted to take part in the launch of Merton’s Business Network for Climate Action.

The aim of the network is to connect businesses who are serious about taking action on the climate emergency, to share their experiences and challenges and hear about useful resources, services and products to help them on their journey.

Diana Sterck, speaking on behalf of Merton Chamber of Commerce and Sustainable Merton, said “The Climate Crisis is a responsibility for all of us and requires business leadership and detailed action. We are asking businesses to join our Network, become Business Champions and share their sustainability stories with us.”

At the event Positive was invited to share the launch of our Positive Planet initiative with over 20 local businesses, who also shared where they are on their journey.

The event was organised by Merton Chamber of Commerce, who specialise in business connections and events, and Sustainable Merton, who specialise in all things environmental.

Businesses signing up to the Network and sharing their sustainability story will receive recognition through a certificate and an online logo.

The Positive Planet initiative is a commitment to by the Positive Print Group to produce sustainable solutions for our clients, ourselves and the future of our planet.

For further information visit:

positiveimagesuk.com/sustainability

Image shows Sarah Carter, Sales Manager at the launch of Merton’s Business Network for Climate Action.