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Xpertise strengthens its environmental credentials with greener training and marketing materials
08 February 2008
Leading training company Xpertise has revised its course materials and marketing policies to support a more rigorous environmental policy.
Like all training companies, Xpertise provides delegates attending training courses with course information to take away with them. Traditionally, these have largely been on paper, and usually packed in environmentally unfriendly polypropylene – which takes a long time to degrade in landfill sites.
“Clearly, we need to provide our customers with these materials,” say Xpertise’s commercial director Bill Walker, “but we can choose how those materials are provided – and in some cases, remove the use of paper or other materials entirely.”
With immediate effect, Xpertise’s own branded course materials will be shrink-wrapped, instead of the standard bulky polypropylene kits boxes, and all non-essential items have been removed. “As one of the UK’s leading training providers, we hand out literally thousands of packs of course materials each year – we see this as our responsibility to make these as environmentally friendly as we can. The paper we use, where we use it, adheres to Xerox’s environmental policy of using paper from sustainable resources – which can have less of an environmental impact than using recycled paper – and having strict limits on the use of hazardous materials in its production, such as elemental chlorine.”
Xpertise’s marketing materials have also recently undergone an environmental rethink. “We’ve stopped producing our massive, printed training catalogue and we now use our Web site to fulfil the same role,” says Walker. “Also, where possible, we now create promotional materials and brochures using Adobe PDFs – this not only removes the need for paper, it also gets the information to our customers much more quickly. We now also assess any printing company that we use to make sure that their work meets our environmental policy.”
Note to editors
For more information, please contact:
Bill Walker, Commercial Director
Telephone: 0845 757 3888
E-mail: bill.walker@xpertise.co.uk
About Xpertise
From seven training centres, Xpertise provides the UK’s widest range of authorised IT training – over 500 courses, from most leading vendors, including CompTIA, Check Point, Cisco, Citrix, IBM, ITIL, Microsoft, Netscreen, Oracle, PRINCE2™, Red Hat and SCO.
Xpertise has been selected three times as Microsoft’s Gold Learning Partner of the Year for Europe, the Middle East and Africa – and was chosen as IBM’s Reseller of the Year for 2007.
Xpertise leads the market with development training in leading-edge technologies such as .NET, OO, UML and Java. Xpertise’s IT-focused professional development training, including data protection, project management, service management, security and team leadership training portfolio form a key part of solutions delivered to enterprise clients.
In addition, Xpertise’s training project management, training-needs analysis and bespoke course development capabilities – combined with applications training for computer users and strategic seminars for senior and IT management – provide customers with what is possibly the UK’s most comprehensive end-to-end IT skills solution.
Xpertise is an Institute of IT Training accredited company. Xpertise is part of Xpertise Group PLC, which is listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange..