ASOS.com Launches The Green Room in Support of Social and Environmental Awareness

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ASOS.com is launching The Green Room, an online marketplace which brings together and highlights brands that promote people and the planet. Launching in February, The Green Room will be housed in its own section on the ASOS website.

London, United Kingdom - The Green Room will include a line-up of fashion and beauty brands, ASOS.com own-label collections and a series of ASOS.com collaborations with artisans and small producer groups – all with the aim of supporting social and environmental awareness.

The launch coincides with Fairtrade Fortnight, The Fairtrade Foundation’s annual two week awareness campaign which this year runs from 22 Feb – 7 March.

Brands on offer will include shoes from Beyond Skin, Terra Plana and Swedish Hasbeens, clothing from Bassike, Slow Motion and People Tree and accessories from Made and Matt and Nat. Beauty brands available will include Caudalie, Green & Spring and Neal’s Yard.

ASOS.com will also be the exclusive UK online stockist of a range of organic cotton t-shirts from Borders & Frontiers. The t-shirts feature designs from some of the most influential fashion bloggers including Susie Lau of Stylebubble and Rumi Neely of fashiontoast.

Borders & Frontiers is a new London based label with an emphasis on environmental and ethical approaches. In addition, ASOS.com is excited to have been chosen as the first exclusive online partner for the launch of the Emma Watson for People Tree collection launching in February.

Model shots of the ASOS Africa range

The first of ASOS.com’s own-label collaborations for The Green Room will be ASOS Africa, a capsule collection of clothing and accessories designed, sourced and produced in collaboration with several small communities in Africa. ASOS Africa will offer contemporary silhouettes such as jumpsuits, playsuits, blazers and cropped trousers all re-worked using African kangas – the vivid printed cottons traditionally worn throughout Eastern Africa – as well as handmade leather accessories. ASOS Africa launches on the 22 Feb with clothing prices ranging from £15 -£75 and accessories from £18 -£32.

ASOS.com’s collection of own-label Fairtrade cotton jersey tops will also sit in The Green Room. Featuring vests and tees in a variety of styles including printed, cropped, and embellished designs, each piece carries the FAIRTRADE Mark¹ which provides a guarantee that the cotton used was produced and traded in accordance with international Fairtrade standards. Vests are priced from £10 and tops and tees from £14.

Customers will be able to follow the journey of the ASOS Africa products and find out more about The Green Room brands on ASOS Life, the ASOS.com online community.

Caren Downie, Buying Director, ASOS.com said: “The Green Room is about fashion first but with a conscience. It is really exciting to be able to offer our customers beautiful things and also the opportunity to make a positive choice to impact the environment and the lives of people in underprivileged communities.”

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THE GREEN ROOM BRANDS LIST

Fashion

• Bassike
• Borders & Frontiers
• Emma Watson for People Tree
• Kuyichi
• Pants to Poverty
• People Tree
• Slow Motion

Accessories & Footwear

• Beyond Skin
• Made
• Matt & Nat
• Melissa
• People Tree
• Swedish Hasbeens
• Terra Plana
• Toms

Beauty

• Anatomicals Naturals Collection
• Body America
• Butter London
• Caudalie
• Cowshed
• Cowshed Spa
• Crazylibellule
• Elemis
• Figs & Rouge
• Green & Spring
• Holistic Silk
• Korres
• Korres Colour
• L’Occitane
• Louise Galvin
• Mama Mio
• Mop
• Naturaleve
• Neal’s Yard
• Ole Henriksen
• Silkskin
• SteamCream
• This Works
• Tigi Love Peace & the Planet
• Tommy Guns
• Yes To Carrots
• Young & Pure

¹ The Fairtrade Mark is a certification mark and registered trademark of Fairtrade Labeling Organisations International (FLO) of which the Fairtrade Foundation is the UK member. The FAIRTRADE Mark is an independent consumer guarantee of a fair deal for farmers in developing countries. For more information visit http://www.fairtrade.org.uk

About ASOS.com
Established in June 2000, ASOS.com is the UK's largest independent online fashion and beauty retailer. With over 35,000 branded and own label products available and 1,500 new lines added each week, asos.com is rapidly becoming the market leader in the UK online fashion world. Aimed primarily at fashion forward 16-34 year olds, asos.com attracts over 6.9 million unique visitors a month and has 2.9 million registered users.

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Greater London House
Hampstead Road
London
NW1 7FB

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press@asos.com
http://www.asos.com


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ASOS.com Launches The Green Room in Support of Social and Environmental Awareness

Print Manager Plus 2010 Now Supports Microsoft XPS

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Companies Save Up to 75% of Printing Costs

Palo Alto, California, Clearwater, Florida, and London, England - Print Manager Plus, the full feature, all software print monitoring, audit and accounting solution from Software Shelf International now includes full compatibility with the new Microsoft XPS^® format to provide users with higher quality documents and higher print cost savings.

Now companies and organizations of any size can easily and fully manage printing on all brands of printers, control all print traffic and effortlessly manage all of their printing resources and printing budgets – throughout their network without resorting to expensive, complex and inferior hardware or other software solutions.

“XPS provides users with a robust, open and highly trustworthy format for electronic paper. Documents print better and can be shared more easily and are more secure for archiving,” said Software Shelf CEO, Bill Feeley. “With the full auditing of Microsoft XPS files, Print Manager Plus remains on the cutting edge of Print Management technology.”

Despite increasing availability of paperless office solutions, the cost of printing continues to eat into many profit lines. Print Manager Plus 2010^® is the leading print management solution for print administration and print cost reduction for all operating systems. It is the only fully functional all-software solution available supporting all printers, plotters and multifunctional devices on the market today and monitors printing on all Microsoft, Macintosh, Unix, and Linux operating systems – and it does so at a fraction of the cost of any other IT product available.

Print Manager Plus is also a Green product featured by ‘Guide Me Green’ as software that is saving 150,000 trees every month due to the paper savings it achieves for its customers.

For a full listing of all new features and pricing: http://www.softwareshelf.com.

Microsoft XPS Showcase: http://microsoft.com/whdc/xps/showcase.mspx.

Pricing and availability
A free, fully functional trial version of Print Manager Plus 2010 is now available for download at http://www.softwareshelf.com

About Software Shelf
Software Shelf was established in 1994 in Silicon Valley by Bill Feeley. Its flagship product Print Manager Plus is used by thousands of companies, schools and government offices worldwide. The company provides tech support from its offices in the US and UK and from its partners and resellers in 62 countries.

For a fully functional evaluation of the product please email sales@softwareshelf.com or contact us.

For further information, contact:

Bill Feeley
Software Shelf International, Inc.
601 Cleveland Street
Suite# 710
Clearwater, FL 33755
United States
Phone: +1 727 445 1920
Phone: +1 800 962 2290
Fax: +1 727 445 9223
Email: bfeeley@softwareshelf.com
Website: http://www.softwareshelf.com

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Print Manager Plus 2010 Now Supports Microsoft XPS

Print Manager Plus 2010 Cuts Office Printing Costs Up to 75%

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Software Shelf announce the release of their newest and most powerful all-software solution to printing administration

Palo Alto, CA, Clearwater, FL and London, England – Software Shelf, the leading provider of print management solutions for all operating systems, announced the release of their newest and most powerful all-software solution to printing administration and print cost reduction ever available – Print Manager Plus 2010^®.

Despite the ever increasing availability of paperless office solutions, today’s businesses, schools, healthcare and other institutions still spend as much as 5 percent or more of their revenues on printing related hardware and consumables. The cost of printing continues to eat into many profit lines.
Print Manager Plus 2010 not only makes printing 100 percent more efficient, it enables fast, state of the art print controls and accounting, significant reductions of waste and increased cost savings – all while dramatically lowering IT and hardware resource requirements for any organization.

Marking a milestone in the development of all print management solutions, Print Manager Plus 2010 eliminates the need to deploy complex and expensive hardware solutions. In fact, Print Manager Plus 2010 is the only fully functional all-software solution available supporting all printers, plotters and multifunctional devices on the market today. It also monitors printing on all Microsoft, Macintosh, Unix, and Linux operating systems – and it does so at a fraction of the cost of any other IT product available.

“We’ve brought complex print management technology to each and every type of business, academic and institutional organization throughout the world,” noted William Feeley, CEO of Software Shelf International. “With Print Manager Plus 2010, we have now exceeded even the most complex hardware solutions available today and did so while continuing to dramatically reduce printing and print management costs to organizations of any size.”

Packing powerful new features into its market leading solution, Print Manager Plus 2010 contains many new and exciting print controls and accountability tools set to reduce the hidden costs of printing throughout any network.

Print Manager Plus 2010 contains the industry’s first native Active Directory integration compatible with Windows Server 2008 and all previous Windows Operating systems. It is a completely integrated platform to control, audit and precisely manage entire printing environments with unsurpassed speed, security and efficiency.

From the individual IT manager to the CFO, Print Manager Plus 2010 is also packed with extensive new reporting features, including over 130 built-in reports, enabling printing to be tracked, controlled and billed for if required, and does so at any level of granularity.

New security related features enable easy compliance to regulations such as HIPAA security rules and similar rules of UK and European Data Protection regulations, as well as Sarbanes Oxley in the US.

Print Manager Plus is a Green product featured by ‘Guide Me Green’ as software that is saving 150,000 trees every month due to the paper savings it achieves for its customers.

For a full listing of all new features, click here.

Pricing and availability

A free, fully functional trial version of Print Manager Plus 2010 is now available for download at http://www.softwareshelf.com

About Software Shelf

Software Shelf was established in 1994 in Silicon Valley by Bill Feeley. Its flagship product Print Manager Plus is used by thousands of companies, schools and government offices worldwide. The company provides tech support from its offices in the US and UK and from its partners and resellers in 62 countries. For a fully functional evaluation of the product, please email sales@softwareshelf.com or contact us. Software Shelf and Print Manager Plus are trademarks owned by Software Shelf worldwide.

For further information, please contact:

Bill Feeley
Software Shelf International, Inc.
601 Cleveland Street
Suite# 710
Clearwater, FL 33755
United States
Phone: 727-445-1920
Phone: 800-962-2290
Fax: 727-445-9223
Email: bfeeley@softwareshelf.com
Website: http://www.softwareshelf.com
Blog: http://softwareshelf.blogspot.com

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Print Manager Plus 2010 Cuts Office Printing Costs Up to 75%

Security in Printing with Cost Control and Ease of Use Solved in Print Manager Plus® 2010 Release Station Option

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Windows Integrated Software for Active Directory or Work Group Configurations for Companies, Libraries and Schools Announced by Software Shelf.

Palo Alto, California, Clearwater, Florida, and London, England -Software Shelf today announced availability of Print Manager Plus 2010 Release Station Option for schools, libraries, and companies who need to control user printing and printing security whether printing through a print server or in a work group.

This new version of the most simple and powerful software only (requires no hardware) Release Station on the market comes with Credit Card and PayPal integration. Users can pay for each individual job as they print or add credit to their own account balances using Credit Card or PayPal.

Bill Feeley, CEO - Software Shelf

Software Shelf CEO, Mr. Bill Feeley states, “The Release Station has proved to be a very popular add-on for Print Manager Plus and we have been implementing this in many Schools, Libraries, and Companies around the globe over the past 2 years. There are many ways this can be used, and here are a few of the more popular implementations:

Secure Printing

“Using the Release Station, Print Manager Plus holds jobs the users send until they go to a Workstation or thin client panel at the printer/printers location and type in their User Account and password to see their job or jobs to release to the printer. Jobs not released after a specified amount of time are deleted. This handles printing sensitive material to a printer that is not located near the user. This also handles the stack of paper sitting at the printer at the end of the day that no one ever came to collect. Fully supports HIPAA, Data Protection Acts, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliancy.

Approved/Managed printing

“Users send a job and receive a pop up message asking them to see the teacher to release their job or the front desk (as in a library) to pay for their job. The person administering uses the console to see all the details of the job, including total cost of the job if collecting funds for it, and releases the jobs as needed.

Account Balance Management

“With the new Paid Balance feature within Print Manager Plus and Credit Card/PayPal integration, the software is set up to put the account balance management back on the users. They can pay for individual jobs themselves or add credit to their account balance if they run out using the Release Station Option.”

For those not yet using Print Manager Plus, a fully functional trial version good for 30 days can be downloaded from http://www.softwareshelf.com. For new customers, install Print Manager Plus first, and then install the new Print Manager Plus Release Station 2010 to gain all the powerful features of security and ease of use of the Release Station.

The Release Station avoids the problem of users printing documents then never going to the actual printer to pick them up. Also, security comes in as the tool allows for confidential material in an organization to not actually be printed at the printer for everyone to see, until the user is actually right there to release it and pick it up.

It supports all printers on the market and is a native extension of the Windows operating system with seamless Active Directory integration. It supports all printer brands on the market and printing for every operating system printing through a Windows Print Server.

Supports HIPAA, Data Protection Acts, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliancy.

About Software Shelf

Software Shelf was established in 1994 in Silicon Valley by Bill Feeley. Its flagship product Print Manager Plus is used by thousands of companies, schools and government offices worldwide. The company provides tech support from its offices in the US and UK and from its partners and resellers in 62 countries. For a fully functional evaluation of the product please email, sales@softwareshelf.com or contact us.

For further information, contact:

Bill Feeley
Software Shelf International, Inc.
601 Cleveland Street
Suite# 710
Clearwater, FL 33755
United States

Phone: 727-445-1920
Phone: 800-962-2290
Fax: 727-445-9223
Email: bfeeley@softwareshelf.com
Website: http://www.softwareshelf.com

Software Shelf and Print Manager Plus are trademarks owned by Software Shelf worldwide.

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Security in Printing with Cost Control and Ease of Use Solved in Print Manager Plus® 2010 Release Station Option

Software Shelf International Signs Microsoft License Agreement

.As a participant of the ISV Royalty Licensing Program, Software Shelf now has the ability to incorporate Microsoft technology into their value-added software, which includes Print Manager Plus 2010 Reports Center

Palo Alto, CA, Clearwater, FL & London, UK - Software Shelf International, a Microsoft Certified Partner, signed the Microsoft ISV Royalty Licensing Program, a significant integration step between Software Shelf’s flagship product, Print Manager Plus and Microsoft’s own product line.

As a participant of the ISV Royalty Licensing Program, Software Shelf now has the ability to incorporate Microsoft technology into their value-added software, which includes Print Manager Plus 2010 Reports Center.

“To have been invited to sign Microsoft’s ISV Royalty Licensing Program says a great deal about the quality of our software products and about the confidence that Microsoft has in us – which bodes very well for our future,” says Bill Feeley, Software Shelf International CEO.

Based on the award winning software, Print Manager Plus allows for a complete audit of all enterprise printing. This green technology allows you to share network-printing data with your entire enterprise. The new reports center allows for web-based reports and built-in viewing rights and permissions that hook into Active Directory so that you can plan and execute your budget needs and flow data with ease and precision. Set it all to automatic with a built-in scheduler that will build enterprise reports, send reports and graphs via email, or save to a share on the server. Use the 120 plus pre-made reports, or edit and create reports, statements, and graphs with the Business Intelligence Development Studio. (Ad-Hoc Reporting)

The ISV Royalty Licensing program is scalable across all ISV segments selling to large, small, or mid-market customers. In this way, Software Shelf can offer total solutions, without the client having to acquire the Microsoft products licenses themselves.

About Software Shelf

Software Shelf was established in 1994 in Silicon Valley by Bill Feeley. Its flagship product, Print Manager Plus, is used by thousands of companies, schools and government offices worldwide. The company provides tech support from its offices in the US and UK and from its partners and resellers in 62 countries. For a fully functional evaluation of the product please email sales@softwareshelf.com or contact us. Software Shelf and Print Manager Plus are trademarks owned by Software Shelf worldwide.

Bill Feeley, CEO
Software Shelf International, Inc.
601 Cleveland Street
Suite #710
Clearwater
33755
USA

Tel: +1 800 962 2290
Fax: +1 727 445 9223
E-mail: bfeeley@softwareshelf.com
Web: http://www.softwareshelf.com
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Software Shelf International Signs Microsoft License Agreement

Brighton House Wins Sustainable Business Award from Sussex Business Awards

Outstanding achievement by a Brighton-based guesthouse in reducing the impact of their business on the environment

Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom – Brighton House, the historic Regency Brighton guesthouse opposite Brighton’s West Pier, has won the Sustainable Business Award from Brighton-based Sussex Business Awards. Lucho and Christine Zuidema, owners of the hotel, were presented with the coveted award at a recent glittering event, hosted by Sussex Business Awards 2008/09 at Copthorne Effingham Park Hotel, Gatwick.

The Sustainable Business Award is granted to those companies that have demonstrated outstanding achievement in reducing the impact of their business on the environment. In this regard, Brighton House has set a very high ‘green’ standard; healthy and environmentally friendly measures have been implemented in every possible way, yet without any sacrifice to guests’ comfort.

These include:

• Breakfast is predominantly organic and locally sourced with many pleasures such as wild salmon, organic hams and local Sussex jams.
• Electricity is supplied from renewable sources.
• Long life low wattage light bulbs are used wherever possible.
• Having recently undergone a complete refurbishment, Brighton House’s insulation is of the highest possible standard.
• A central heating control system that restricts the heating of unoccupied rooms has recently been installed.
• A sedum roof (green roof) has been implemented on the recent extension to the kitchen which both increases green space and provides improved insulation.
• As much as possible is recycled, namely glass, paper, cartons, tins, and tetra packaging, and all bio-degradable waste is processed through a wormery which, in turn, provides excellent and rich compost.
• All rooms are provided with two waste baskets and guests are asked to separate recyclable material from non-recyclable.
• All cleaning materials and detergents are sourced from companies that providing ecological solutions, such as Ecover.
• The company car has been converted to run on Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG).

Lucho and Christine Zuidema, owners of Brighton House, receiving their
Sustainable Business Award from Sussex Business Awards

“We are proud of the efforts we have made to minimise our impact upon the environment,” says Lucho Zuidema, “and we are particularly proud to have won this award which has encouraged us to make Brighton House even greener! We would also like to urge other businesses to take up the green challenge. It is absolutely vital but also very rewarding.”

The Sustainable Business Award was sponsored by Veolia Environmental Services (formerly Onyx) which is committed to providing a sustainable approach to managing household waste. http://www.veoliaenvironmentalservices.co.uk

For more information on Sussex Business Awards, visit http://www.sussex-business-awards.co.uk.

About Brighton House

Brighton House Hotel is a Brighton bandb with 16 fully en-suite rooms. Located on Brighton’s historic Regency Square, opposite the West Pier, it is a project Christine and Lucho Zuidema decided to undertake in September of 2004. Previous to their involvement, Brighton House had been a refurbishment project, under English Heritage. This Brighton hotel has subsequently benefited from a complete re-build introducing a modern infrastructure and comforts to compliment the well-preserved period features. Brighton House holds a Green Tourism Award, South East Sustainable Tourism Award as well as a carbon balanced certificate from C Level. http://www.brighton-house.co.uk

For more information, please contact:

Lucho Zuidema
Owner/Operator
Brighton House
52 Regency Square
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 2FF

01273 323282
info@brighton-house.co.uk
http://www.brighton-house.co.uk

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