News and Views from Mackman

  • Young Citizen honour goes to…

    Stephen Fourie and 18 fellow students from Sudbury Upper School & Arts College took top honours in the fourth annual Sudbury Rotary Young Citizen of the Year Awards. Nominated for the individual awards by Sixth Form Tutor Kathryn Townend, 19-year-old Stephen received the Young Citizen Challenge trophy from last year’s winner, Holly Watson, during the…

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  • Staff Focus: Emil Pitts

    Emil Pitts joined Mackman’s technical team in October 2011. His expertise as a designer and web developer mean that he’s perfectly placed to support the rest of the team in their work designing and implementing digital projects. What’s your working background? Having studied Digital Media at Southampton Solent University, I soon began work with a…

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  • Merry Christmas from all at Mackman

    Dear all, With one week to go until we break for the festive season, I wanted to take the opportunity to wish all our clients, new and old, prospects, and friends a very Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year. We’d like to thank all the customers we’ve worked with throughout 2011. The…

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  • Sudbury Christmas Tree Festival now open!

    The popularity of Sudbury’s Christmas Tree Festival just keeps growing. This year a bumper 89 exhibitors have decorated trees for the ninth Festival at St Peter’s Church on Sudbury’s Market Hill. Among those taking part in the festival are 22 local schools, nurseries and playgroups, eight church groups, as well as numerous youth organisations, charities,…

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  • Superheroes descend on Halesworth

    Superheroes descend on Halesworth in aid of Children in Need For the fourth year running, the team at Hammonds Subaru has supported Children in Need by initiating a number of fundraising campaigns, which included a group of employees dressing up as superheroes! Batman, Robin, Supergirl and Captain America made their way around the Hammond Group…

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  • Customer satisfaction research is a wrap

    Mackman Research has successfully delivered the results of a client satisfaction survey on behalf of Cambridgeshire food packaging experts, Anson. In keeping with its company mission to provide excellent customer service, Anson was keen to discover how well they are doing in meeting customer expectations. The study was carried out to help Anson improve the…

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  • Local business offers discount to Mackman clients!

    Freerange HR, a local human resources company, is celebrating this week having won the contract to work with Suffolk Wildlife Trust. The Mackman Group worked with Freerange HR to develop its branding and new website. The Sudbury-based HR firm is in its first year of business and is steadily growing its client base across the…

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  • Mackman’s issue management plan

    Having a plan of action in place, should an incident arise, is often what prevents a minor issue from becoming a full blown crisis. The key to successfully managing a crisis is the development of a full-service monitoring and response strategy before anything occurs. In many instances, it’s not the issue which damages an organisation,…

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  • Google+ business pages now available

    Google+ has expanded its services this week, allowing businesses to create a Page and engage with Google+ users. Vic Gundotra, senior vice president of engineering at Google, says ‘So far Google+ has focused on connecting people with other people. But we want to make sure you can build relationships with all the things you care…

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  • Google: Making ‘search’ more secure

    On the 18th October, Google announced a key change to its default search experience for signed-in users. Evelyn Kao, Product Manager at Google, says ‘As search becomes an increasingly customized experience, we recognize the growing importance of protecting the personalized search results we [Google] deliver.’ The change will encrypt search queries and Google’s results page.…

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