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July 2007 HDC Green Day
HDC Media Group decided to hold a green themed fun day on 12 July 2007 due to the nature of our newly designed Green packaging. All our employees got involved by dressing up and joining in the various activities. The office was decorated with paper chain garlands and old CD/DVD’s, all of which are fully recyclable. Helpful tips on how to be 'green' were dotted around the office, along with reminders to switch off the lights when not in use. We also removed the kettle from the office for the day, as our water vending machine can also heat water just below boiling – meaning we only boil what we need. On average a kettle uses the same amount of energy to boil 1 litre of water as it takes to run a fridge for 8 hours, so it’s a good idea to boil only as much water as you need. As the day unfolded, staff voted for the ‘best dressed’ and the prize went to Karl Hallam. We also had a resident ‘Green Grocer’ who handed out green fruit and treats throughout the day.
Many thanks to our local Asda store who supplied our green grocers outfit. Everyone enjoyed listening to Green Day’s album on repeat, drinking green tea all day and stuffing our faces on green fruit and goodies! July 2007 Press Release - Green Packaging for CD, DVD & USB green : recycled : recyclable : eco-friendly : biodegradable
HDC Media Group is the first manufacturer of optical media and flash memory who can offer a complete Green Packaging service that includes both creative and bespoke solutions for CD, DVD and USB. >> Click here to request our Green Packaging sample pack >> Click here to see our Green Packaging product page We are privileged to be leading the market to a new generation of high quality, recycled products which include our 5 most popular Green Packaging solutions, all made from 100% recycled board:
Our exciting and visually stunning Green Packaging sample pack is made from 100% recycled board, and boasts a plethora of eye-catching print options and market leading features. HDC Media Group is eager to contribute to saving the environment and help reduce carbon emissions, which scientists say is the main contributor to global warming. >> Click here to see our Green Policy. For all sales enquiries, please call Sue Crowther on 01274 65 65 65. For all media enquiries, please call Martin Gamble on 01274 65 65 65. ###
January 2007 HDC Media Group : 2006 in review Here at HDC we've kick-started the new year off with a bang, eager to ensure 2007 is as successful, challenging and productive as 2006 has been for us. Take a look at our achievements and developments within the optical media industry during 2006. Our performance We'd like to take this opportunity to pat ourselves on the back for yet another monster of a year in terms of sales. During 2006 HDC delivered 1750 optical media projects, giving us a 7% increase in our annual gross profit compared to the previous trading period. The HDC family expanded once more as we welcomed Karl Hallam as a Graphic Designer, Emma Steward and Keith Williams both as Account Managers, and Helen Roberts as our Receptionist, all joining the team during 2006. HDC upholds its premise on Recycling During the course of 2006, HDC continued to recycle all it's unwanted material including obsolete and surplus CD's and DVD's. This unwanted stock is collected by Poly C Reclaimers, who are specialised recyclers for all plastics. In addition to this, we continually recycle all our unwanted paper and card. If you have a CD or DVD project coming up, we recommend requesting a sample of our complete range of digipacks, wallets and paper parts made from recycled stock. Our green packaging range has a great look and feel, as well as being environmentally friendly. Flash memory The popularity of Flash memory, including USB sticks and SD cards is forever increasing and HDC can proudly state that we are no stranger to the market. We have been established providers of Flash memory for some years now, and offer all shapes and sizes of memory. See our webpage on Flash memory for more information. Free bar code service HDC now offer a free bar code service. Allow us to integrate a bar code into your product design, allowing it to be appropriately used within the retail market. See our webpage which details our free of charge bar code service for more information. Blu-ray Vs HD-DVD update The competition is heating up as these two rival products are fighting it out 'mano-a-mano' as they've both been recently thrown into the waiting hands of the consumer. Although there is little in the way of defining a market leader, both companies have started releasing their respective media players. A recent news article hinted that HD DVD seemed to have an early lead in the race for optical media supremacy, however Blu-ray disc still had the upper hand in terms of being superior in technical specifications. See our news article about Blu-ray Vs HD-DVD from July 2006. As always, we'll keep you posted on all major movements in the market. Our charity appeal HDC ran two charity appeals during 2006. The first event involved the girls of HDC entering the Race for Life and collectively raised a staggering £1,810 for Cancer Research - once again, well done girls! Our second pledge was to ditch our usual Christmas card distribution, and instead opted to donate the money to our chosen charity www.makeadream.org. We proudly handed a cheque for £300 to one of the founders of the Make a Dream charity, Mrs Francine Levin. Mrs Levin is pictured here with Amy Hillas (Systems, Operations and Marketing Coordinator for HDC).
2007, what's in store? We'll be pulling out all stops during 2007 to bring you as many new and exciting products and services as possible. Keep an eye out for our exciting new website updates throughout the year, including :
December 2006 HDC ditch Christmas cards to make charity pledge Usually at this time of year, HDC Media Group send out Christmas cards to offer our good wishes for the season. Last year we made the decision to enhance the lives of people who are less fortunate than ourselves by supporting charities around the country. This year HDC and its entire team have made a donation to the Leeds based charity, Make a Dream, instead of spending money on Christmas cards.
Make a Dream is a charity focused on making “Dreams” come true for Yorkshire’s sick and terminally ill children. Testimonials from Tony Blair and some of the country’s leading children’s hospitals confirm the valuable work the charity is achieving. Make a Dream was chosen by HDC as a close relative of an employee had their dream realised whilst they were seriously ill with leukaemia. Megan was diagnosed with leukaemia at the age of 10 and overcame the illness. However, she was re-diagnosed when she was 17 with the same illness. Megan’s dream was to record a pop record; a dream that was successfully fulfilled from the hard work of the charity. Other dreams are more humble, like James who wanted a washing machine for his Mum so she could spend more time at the hospital with him. Make a Dream ensures all money is wisely spent on making dreams come true with 3 or 4 incredibly varied dreams being fulfilled each month. Instead of sending a Christmas card to HDC this year, why not help make a dream come true by donating money to Make a Dream? If you would like to know more about this charity or make a donation, please visit: Christmas opening times We would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very Happy Christmas and wonderful New Year from us all at HDC Media Group. We will be closing on Friday the 22nd of December at 12:30 and return from our Christmas break on the 2nd January 2007. The office will also be closed on Friday 15th December from 4pm onwards but will re-open on Monday 18th December at 8.30am. We look forward to speaking to you in 2007. Blu-ray by Sony Corporation, or HD DVD by Toshiba?
HDC Media Group provides an insight on what's happening between the two companies fighting to take the lead to offer the next leading optical media storage disc.
No, we're not a stuck record; we're simply talking about two different, but potentially very similar forthcoming products engaged in a war for marketing domination. Almost like a re-run of the similar cut-throat competition
between video formats VHS and Beta back in the 70's and early 80's,
the two products, Blu-ray by Sony and HD DVD by Toshiba are being
marketed all around the world, already gaining backing from major
companies such as :
In time, the two formats are set to succeed the current DVD technology. Blu-ray and HD-DVD have both been developed to enable recording, playback and rewriting of high definition video and data. The key to these technologies is the blue-violet laser that is used to write the data to the disc. This blue laser has a much shorter wavelength than the current red laser DVD system, which makes it possible to read and write smaller pits, as a result, these discs can hold up to 15 GB (HD-DVD) and 25 GB (Blu-ray) of data on a single sided single layer 12cm disc. HDC Media Group will be keeping tracks on the progress of both these formats, so watch this space for further updates. For more information on both discs, check out these websites: HD DVD by Toshiba - http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/hddvd/ Blu-ray by Sony - http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/bluray/ If you have an opinion on which format is the likely successor, we would be delighted to hear your views; we may even publish them in this section. Please use our enquiry form.
June 2006 Race for Life - well done Girls! Well done to the girls of HDC for successfully completing the Race for Life on Sunday 4th June. A total of £1,810 was raised for Cancer Research, which smashed the original target of £1,250. All the girls thoroughly enjoyed the experience of competing and raising money together, and have already made plans to run in the Race for Life again next year. Keep up the good work!
May 2006 HDC Girls enter Race for Life
On Sunday 4th June this year, the girls from HDC will be participating in the Race for Life charity event in aid of Cancer Research. Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life began in 1994, with one race in Battersea Park: 680 women came together and raised £36,000 in sponsorship. Twelve years on, Race for Life has grown to become the UK’s biggest women-only fundraising event. Over a £100 million has been raised for Cancer Research UK and over 2 million women have been welcomed to the events. This year Cancer Research UK is hoping to raise £46 million by bringing 750,000 women together, all raising sponsorship to support the life-saving work of Cancer Research UK. The girls competing in the run are Lisa Atkinson, Mel Chadwick, Amy Hillas, Emma Roberts, Emma Steward, Sue Steward and Carrie Winfield. Sponsorship The girls are aiming to raise a total of £1,500 and are currently busy collecting donations. If you would like to make a donation to support the girls in their run and help Cancer Research UK, please contact Amy on 01274 65 65 65.
Thank you in advance, The HDC Girls
January 2006 HDC into 2006 The start of a New Year is always an ideal time to reflect on last year and the many successes it brought to us all. With last year being no exception, HDC once again claimed a mighty triumph by delivering to market over 1800 different optical media projects during the sales year, giving us an annual turnover increase of 23.4% over our previous trading period. We also added two fantastic new products to our existing arsenal of CD's, DVD's and packaging items. DualDisc, which has DVD recorded material on one side and CD digital audio material on the other was launched in July 2005, with ID-CD disc tracking system arriving shortly afterwards. 2005 saw HDC expand into our new, purpose built offices which we have now comfortably settled into. Our new space provides us with future opportunities to expand our existing teams and work practices, plus we're lucky enough to enjoy our very own fantastic pool table room! The end of 2005 saw HDC making a significant contribution to the World Vision charity by collecting and donating money instead of sending corporate Christmas Cards. In total, we raised a generous amount enabling us to purchase much needed items for families in Africa. Our gifts included a herd of goats, school classroom equipment and medical/hygiene equipment amongst many others. We are looking forward to another successful year at HDC in 2006, and look forward to providing a great service to all our customers over the coming year. Keep checking our website for further exciting announcements. July 2005 DualDisc DualDisc is a new two-sided disc product introduced primarily by the video and music industry, with DVD recorded material on one side and CD digital audio material on the other. DualDisc is playable on existing CD and DVD hardware, personal computers and game consoles and capitalises on the popularity of DVD by including a portion that can contain exclusive video footage, unique films or other video content that helps to expand the relationship between a company and its target audience. April 2005 INVESTING FOR SUCCESS Our recent investment in CD-R and DVD-R print lacquer and burn equipment makes us one of the largest producers of finished CD-R/DVD-R in the UK. As a result, our in-house CD-R and DVD-R duplication machinery can quickly produce high quality discs that can satisfy the needs for small quantities or very fast turnaround on larger volume production. We now offer duplication print and burn facilities for Standard CD-R (700MB); Mini CD-R (185MB); magiCarD-R (50MB); Standard DVD-R (4.7GB) and Dual layer DVD-R (8.5GB). The benefits to clients can be significant, particularly for those needing quantities from 100 upwards, because we offer very fast turnaround times of between one and three days for up to 5,000 discs that are produced with a high quality finish and with a professional UV lacquer coating. Discs can also be supplied blank so customers have the choice of whether they want to write their own data and print their own design, or let us print and burn the discs for them.” We do, of course, offer free downloadable vector art design templates for all CD, DVD, inserts and packaging from our website. Alternatively, should clients require assistance with design of on-body printing or packaging, our design studio can help as we have full PC and Mac facilities for artwork, whether simply outputting film or designing print from the outset.” April 2005 GLOBAL INTENTIONS We continue to enjoy dramatic volume increases for our DVD and CD replication services. If we took the annual number of discs we produce (in excess of one million each month) and placed them side by side they would stretch over 1212 miles, or further than Lands End to John O'Groats.” Our current internal and external annual plant capacity of 1.2 billion discs would mean CDs stretching over three and a half times round the world.” March 2005 HDC Media Group ADOPTS STRICT COMPLIANCE GUIDELINES We have notched up another UK first, by following the world’s anti-piracy compliance programme (APC) guidelines, developed by IRMA (the International Recording Media Association), for all our finished CD's and DVD's. IRMA, the leading association for organisations
involved in recording media, has created a world-wide standard against
piracy and to protect intellectual property rights. Thanks to continuing business growth, we have added new, single storey, purpose made offices of over 3,000 sq feet in Bradford to accommodate sales, production, marketing and studio departments and support facilities. SET FOR NINTH SUCCESSFUL YEAR Now into our ninth year in business, we are
set to record another year of turnover growth, with progress so
far this year already suggesting another 40% increase. February 2005 PRIZE DRAW RESULTS
December 2004 Further New Appointments HDC Media Group has made two further new appointments. Paula Zadorozny has joined the company as Financial Director responsible for supporting the activities of the management group. Paula, a qualified ACCA accountant, has spent the last eleven years working both in industry and in an accountancy practice in Leicester. Martin Gamble has been appointed as a Mac Operator, having joined the company from Resource Print Solutions (previously AlphaGraphics), where he undertook roles that included artwork set-up, digital printing, proofing and providing technical assistance for clients. November 2004 Major New Equipment Investment HDC Media Group has doubled its internal CD and DVD duplication facilities by adding six Picasso Direct-to-Disc digital inkjet printers, two Artcoater UV varnishing systems, and fully robotic CD/DVD Duplication towers. We have seen an increase in our R-Media turnover by more than 50% in the last six months. With new ‘blank media’ buying power, greater production efficiency, and an internal digital-print department, we are now even better placed to dominate the UK duplication market.” In addition, our pricing matrix
has been changed to reflect these new economies of scale and in
order that we can guarantee to be the lowest priced duplicator in
the UK”.
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