Paying lip service to our clients

Lorna North

Not known for our beauty range, JNI London recently proved themselves to be ahead of the fashion pack by producing this gorgeous, bright, spring time branded lippy for surf and skate company, Volcom.

This lipstick colour came in a sleek black case with the eye catching Volcom logo up the side, enticing young ladies to apply a swipe of dazzling rouge to their puckered lips.

Volcom came to us with a colour in mind and we matched it to the exact tone!

We are very excited about how well this product will fare as the clouds start to part and we come out of winter hibernation, ready to take on a summer in hyper-colour!

Client summit in chilly Antwerp

photo credit @ wikipedia.com

Last week we attended our client Palo Alto Networks for their annual summit in Antwerp, Belgium.

JNI run the online store for PAN shop.paloaltonetworks.com and it was great to touch base with some of our contacts to really get a grip on their merchandising expectations for this year.

It was a whistle-stop tour, leaving London in the morning, zipping over to Belgium on the Eurostar in time for a lunch meeting with the four marketing managers who run each quarter of EMEA.

We also had the pleasure of meeting the head of global field marketing from Santa Clara, near San Francisco, over the pond.

The meeting was a prime opportunity to discuss the contents of the online store and the ways in which we can launch it to their partners.

After a successful day trip, we zoomed back to London, full of fresh ideas and exciting prospects for our client’s online store!

Can’t touch this

Lorna North

We all know how annoying it is during the winter when you want to send an important alfresco text and you have to risk hypothermia by taking off your glove to do so.

You end up making the sacrifice, gloves – no communication, no gloves – loss of digit through frostbite.

Therefore, we have produced a miracle glove that means that your phalanges need not suffer the perils caused by sub-zero temperatures because developed into the swiping finger, is a device that allows you to make contact with your touch screen and therefore send that all important message.

JNI London caters for all weather conditions!

The gloves are on!

JNI London welcomes JNI Athens to the fold!

Lorna North

Earlier this month, the JNI London office had the great opportunity to meet the members of our newly opened office in Athens, Greece.

This is an exciting time for JNI with our Greek colleagues, Maria Ninou, George Dourakis and Nikos Korakianitis expanding the business in beautiful and historic Athens; birth place of the Olympics and home of the ancient Acropolis.

The Acropolis

President of the London branch, Liz Venz and Maria Dourakis have already started meetings with some huge clients such as Coca-Cola.

As for their experience of London, our Greek colleagues had an excellent time and couldn’t understand why us natives sometimes complain – a few weeks of the cold weather could explain it!

Greek office from the outside

Their week saw them Boris biking to the Notting Hill office, enjoying a full English breakfast, trawling the Portobello Markets whilst refuelling on an alfresco hot dog and staring in awe at the uncanny wax work models of the rich and famous at Madame Tussauds!

They also marvelled at St Paul’s Cathedral and surveyed the land from the dizzy heights of the London Eye.

The best part for them was taking the Boris bikes through Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park and Marble Arch on a beautiful crisp and blue skied day.

It wasn’t all fun, there was naturally some work to be done.

The Greek team experienced an interesting trip with Account Executive, Guy Nicholson to the factory where they brand our clients’ logos onto Moleskine notebooks.

It was an interesting opportunity for the Greek team to see how the London office works and get a handle on our accounts, products and the way we manage it all.

New office interior

Thanks to the new Athens office, we now have access to a wide range of High Tech products such as Ipads, televisions; cameras etc. through our local Greek vendor and can fulfil any local orders very quickly.

We wish the Greek team every success in the early months of the new office and we hope they visit again soon.

Hot wheels

Lorna North

O.k, so with this chilly weather and icy road conditions, it might be a little nippy to go for a bike ride on our racing blue JNI branded bicycle, but, ever the optimists, we are looking forward to spring time, when the daffodils start to poke their sleepy heads from the soil and the ground begins to thaw.

This blue bike is reminiscent of the Boris bikes here in London, except ours has somewhere to pop your basket as well as trendy white interior rims on the wheels.

We absolutely cannot wait for spring now when we can jump on the saddle and pedal into the summer!

Look out for bright blue bikes, it might well be a member of the JNI crew, cycling into the next season.

JNI thinks globally and acts locally to produce stock across the UK and Europe

Anywhere within Europe!

JNI are currently rolling out a new initiative that will mean great possibilities for our EMEA clients.

We will be providing you with the opportunity to get promotional merchandise immediately from local stock across the UK and Europe.

We will achieve this through a variety of new measures, a popular one being no minimum quantities on orders allowing you to get the product you want without having to order in minimum quantities.

This will further enable our clients to use up their last-minute budgets, choose items from a hot new collection of 1,500 promotional premiums and despatch within 48 hours for all orders across the UK and Europe.

Our warehouses are based in Europe in addition to our main UK site and we can bill you in your local currency to make life easier on your finance department.

We are also in the midst of building a new webstore that will detail all products and quantities that are currently in stock. With state of the art print facilities across the UK and Europe we can decorate the merchandise with your logo quickly and professionally.

In addition to this, JNI have also recently opened a new office in Greece, making the JNI network even bigger and creating more of a local presence around the world for our clients.

Great discoveries at the PSI Trade Show, Düsseldorf!

Thirsty?

Lorna North

Last week JNI London’s Torie, Simon and Guy headed to Düsseldorf to attend the 50th PSI Trade Show.

This is Europe’s leading trade show where businesses can go and sample some of the world’s best new product ideas and draw inspiration from all the fantastic exhibitors.

Simon and Guy trawled the four enormous halls of products to ensure that no merchandise was left unturned.

Torie took a closer look at some of the products and had her mug-shot taken with this giant cup!

The team’s secret shopping trip lead them to some brilliant discoveries with the below list to name just a few:

Bicycle bells and valve covers

Custom sweets

Zip Buddies

Colour printed chocolates

Do get in touch with a member of the secret shopping team if you have any questions:

guy.nicholson@nadel.uk.com

torie.nicholson@nadel.uk.com

simon.woodington@nadel.uk.com

May the Force be With You; Medicinema hold Star Wars themed charity dinner

Lorna North

JNI London are proud to support Medicinema, an organisation that aims to bring film to hospitals to brighten up the days of the patients and aid their recovery through the positive effects of film.

Therefore, we wanted to make our clients aware of a fabulous star-studded event they are holding in order to raise money for their brilliant cause.

The dinner and interactive quiz is being held in association with Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox with special guests and Medicinema Honorary Event Patrons, Ewan McGregor, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

It will be held on the 2nd February in the Grand Ballroom of London’s Hilton on Park Lane and the dress code is black tie, and a Star Wars twist is certainly welcome!

For more detail on this excellent and supportive event, please take a look at the website.

Tickets for dinner range from £195 to £7,500 plus VAT.

For more information, please check out the link below.

http://www.starwarscharitydinner.com/

The force is strong with this one.

Calling all merchandise ideas for our secret shopping trip!

Lorna North

Next week JNI London’s Torie, Simon and Guy are heading across to Düsseldorf to attend the 50th PSI Trade Show. This is Europe’s leading trade show where businesses can go and sample some of the world’s best new product ideas and draw inspiration from all the fantastic exhibitors.

Our JNI researchers will be keeping a keen eye out for some great new merchandise to add to our already extensive repertoire.

If anyone has  any upcoming events, promotions, or projects that can benefit from their searching, shopping and sourcing expertise then do get in touch!

There is no better place to look for ideas, specific items or replacement merchandise if you have been using the same products for a while now.

In the meantime, Torie and Guy will prep their trained eyes to source out some key products for 2012!

Get in touch:

guy.nicholson@nadel.uk.com

torie.nicholson@nadel.uk.com

simon.woodington@nadel.uk.com

JNI London throw a stylish Christmas party

© Charlotte Fielding Photography

Lorna North

‘Tis the season to be merry and so last week, JNI London put on a spectacular Christmas party for a high profile production company in one of the city’s stylish venues.

Aqua Nueva is situated on top of iconic department store building, Dickens and Jones on Regent Street and has a contemporarily Spanish theme to it. Its roof terrace and thoughtful design made it an obvious choice to host this particular Christmas party.

The guests arrived at 7:30pm and were led through a grand entrance into a lift and rocketed straight up to the 5^th floor. JNI members, Torie and Guy were there to meet the party-goers at the exclusive velvet rope from which they meandered down a dimly lit and funky corridor into the private area.

The whole vibe felt fresh and seamlessly stylish with modern bowl food circulating that consisted of  mushroom and truffle ravioli, cod croquettes and Iberian tenderloin skewers with chumichurri sauce.

© Charlotte Fielding Photography

The guests sipped on bubbles and  Japanese Velvet cocktails  – served with mixed berries  and enjoyed the ambient surroundings whilst catching up with their colleagues.

The party was entertained by a performance from The Kicks, an energetic, 4 piece all male band performing rock and pop classics.

© Charlotte Fielding Photography

A combination of the high location, trendy and mood making décor, food, drinks and entertainment made this event a very special Christmas party.

JNI London are looking forward to holding more successful events for their clients in 2012!