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Soar Printing wins Sustainable 60 award

The Sustainable 60 Awards celebrate sustainable business excellence and finalists were selected within 5 different categories: strategy and governance, workplace, marketplace, community and environment. There are also overall business awards for small, medium and large enterprises.
Soar Printing picked up the Overall Business Award for Medium business. Soar Printing are certified by Telarc to the ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004, FSC and PEFC standards.

Paramount a finalist in Westpac Auckland Central Business Award

Paramount Services has been named a finalist in two categories of the Westpac Auckland Central Business Award run by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce.Paramount was named a finalist in the Excellence in Service Delivery and Excellence in Business Leadership categories. Paramount Services Limited are certified by Telarc to the ISO 9001:2008 & ISO 14001:2004 standards.

Economic benefits of Standards

ISO has published international case studies on 11 companies in 10 countries showing that implementing Standards can provide economic benefits from between 0.5% and 4% of annual sales revenue. Follow this link and click on the 'International case studies prove economic benefits of Standards' article to read more.

New ISO Publication - 10 good things ISO Standards do for SMEs

ISO has published a free downloadable brochure with case studies from 10 small businesses around the world talking about the benefits of ISO standards and how they contribute to the success of their businesses. To read more follow this link to the International Organisation for Standardisation website & download their free brochure.

July 2011

New energy management standard launched by ISO

The International Organisation for Standardisation have recently published the ISO 50001 energy management systems standard. This new standard will provide public & private sector organisations with management strategies to increase energy efficiency and improve energy performance. To find out more about how this standard could have an impact on the world's energy use follow this link to the article on the ISO website.

June 2011

New Edition Handbook puts ISO 14001 within easier reach of SME's

Small and medium-sized enterprises are being provided with a new tool to make it easier for them to achieve the benefits of implementing an environmental management system based on the International Standard, ISO 14001.

The tool comes in the form of a combined handbook and CD, ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems – An easy-to-use checklist for small business – Are you ready?

This Handbook is available from Standards New Zealand call 0800 782 632

May 2011