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New suite of literature for Sheffcare
We have recently re-designed the whole suite of literature for Sheffcare. This involved recreating the care home operator’s complete range of brochures for each of its 12 homes, plus a new day centre brochure.
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Website survey results in welcome donation to Barnsley Hospice!
If you’re on our regular e-newsletter mailing list, you will have received a request from us in May when we launched our new website to complete a quick online survey to let us know what you thought. As a thank you for your time in responding to our survey about the website, we have made a donation to Barnsley Hospice for every response we received.
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Dragonfly PR seeks Content Executive/Copywriter
We have a vacancy for a Content Executive with great copywriting skills!
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Dragonfly wins BPC Building products account
We continue to build on our track record in the construction sector with another account win – this time with a leading manufacturer of high quality timber to timber and timber to masonry fixings.
BPC Building Products Ltd is the latest to see the benefits of working with a PR, social media and SEO company that understands its market. As part of winning this new customer we put together some really creative ideas for keeping BPC ahead of the competition.
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Sheffield Charity Celebrates In Style
One of Sheffield’s most inspirational charities, Sheffield Family Holiday Fund (SFHF), celebrated its 40th anniversary last week with over 100 guests attending an event at the University of Sheffield’s Firth Hall.
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Sheffield's 3Squared wins Queen's Award for Innovation
Sheffield-based software company 3Squared has won a Queen’s Award for Innovation for the software it has developed for the rail industry.
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New high pressure valves released for marine sector
Parker Bestobell Marine, part of Parker Hannifin the global leader in motion and control technologies, has developed a range of high pressure cryogenic valves that are fully approved for use in the marine sector.
The valves can withstand pressures of up to 625 bar, with a range from to 3 and are designed specifically for the MEGI Engine fuel gas system.
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Investec raises over £28k for children's hospice
Patients and their families at Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice are set to benefit from a donation of over £28,000, thanks to the fundraising efforts of staff at Investec Wealth & Investment in Sheffield.
Members of staff from Sheffield took part in a number of sports-themed challenges, which included cycling over 300 miles from Manchester to London via five Ashes test cricket grounds, organising a charity ball at Sheffield City Hall, a sporting celebrity curry night and bucket collections at sports venues and theatres in the Sheffield area to help boost the total. The fundraising was part of the Investec Ashes 2015 Cycle Challenge, which took place in July last year.
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Tarmac sponsors Buxton Well Dressing Festival
Tarmac's Tunstead site in Buxton has again pledged its support to the annual Buxton Well Dressing festival, by donating over £1,000.
The site, which includes a quarry, plus a cement and lime plant, has supported the popular festival for the past few years. This year its donation will cover the sponsorship of safety barriers used for crowd safety during the carnival event.
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Sheffield charity celebrates 40th anniversary year
2016 is set to be a very important year for one of Sheffield's most inspirational charities, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary in May.
Since 1976, Sheffield Family Holiday Fund (SFHF) has helped over 17,000 adults and children in Sheffield who cannot afford to have a break.
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Caroline joins the Dragonfly team
Here we catch up with Caroline Riley, our latest recruit who joins us as PR and Social Media Executive based in our South Yorkshire office.
Caroline is a Graduate from the University of Huddersfield who studied Advertising & Marketing, including digital marketing and PR.
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Novel explores family impact of autism
An insightful novel ‘Those who will not see’ by Sheffield author Lauren Woodcock is set to transform understanding of autism, from a writer with first-hand experience.
Lauren Woodcock grew up with an autistic younger brother, trained as a speech and language therapist and went on to specialise as a therapist for individuals with Autistic Spectrum Condition.
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New client win: Trackwork Moll
We are really excited to be working with an exciting new client in the Rail industry – Trackwork Moll. The Doncaster based manufacturer of concrete railway sleepers approached Dragonfly PR to produce a comprehensive new company brochure. Trackwork Moll produces up to 400,000 concrete sleepers per year, which are used when track is being refurbished in the rail industry.
A spokesperson for Dragonfly PR said: “We’re delighted to be working with Trackwork Moll. Rail is an important sector for us and we have a number of clients that target train operating companies. We are looking forward to working with Trackwork Moll to achieve its objectives.”
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Parker Bestobell secures contract to supply valves for Canadian tankers
Sheffield, UK, January 2016, Parker Bestobell Marine part of the Instrumentation Products Division of Parker Hannifin – the global leader in motion and control technologies, has won its first order to supply cryogenic fuel gas valves for new build tankers.
The two 15,000-dwt ice-class asphalt and bitumen tankers have been ordered by Groupe Desgagnés of Canada and will be built at Besiktas shipyard in Turkey.
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PR /Content Executive role available
Dragonfly PR is a rapidly growing business to business PR and digital marketing agency which is looking to appoint someone with exceptional writing skills, with a minimum of 12 months’ experience. Your experience would ideally be in within a PR agency with predominantly business to business clients or an in-house marketing/PR department.
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