Category: social responsibility

newsXpress Arana Hills are having great success with the ‘new money’ category of Ink & Toner.

Brett and Kaylene Connelly offered this testimonial:

“We have had Ink & Toner in our store for about 11 months.

We got into the product because we wanted something new and with ink we saw enormous growth potential. To accommodate the space required for the cartridges we moved Darrell Lea and exposed a perfect area near the front counter that was highly visible and secure. As soon as we installed some hang sell fixtures we were up and running.

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We have participated in each of the five newsXpress HOT ink! promotions. We have found that the sales do spike during the on-sale periods, but pleasingly sales remain strong once the promotion ends.

We have identified a further opportunity for extra sales with associated products and look forward to the merchandising challenge to create a full technological offer.

The catalogues are distributed to the homes in the suburbs surrounding Arana Hills by a letterbox drop company with the remainder being used as bag stuffers in store.

Our advice to any store starting out in this exciting category is to only stock the products suggested and advertised by newsXpress, and even then watch the sales and adjust orders to suit your market”.

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Ink & Toner at newsXpress Arana Hills, featured in this photo is the unique Cartridge Rescue recycling bin.


newsXpress Gympie and Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors

Warrick Hosking at newsXpress Gympie is passionate about everything in his business. Last year when it was encouraged to charge retail customers 10c per plastic bag and to donate the money to a charity Warrick showed no hesitation in running this program and advertising his support for the Wildlife Warriors.

The Wildlife Warriors continue the great work of their founder Steve Irwin in pursuing conservation projects from their base at Australia Zoo.

Warrick and his team raised the princely sum of $611.95 last year and the photos below show the presentation of the cheque at Australia Zoo.

We strongly encourage newsXpress members to decrease their plastic bag usage and to support worthwhile local charitable organisations to better connect within their community.

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Warrick has also arranged four separate collection boxes for his shop with co-branding of newsXpress to feature alongside the Wildlife Warriors logo.

Environmental strategy

newsXpress is proud of the environmental strategy it manages on behalf of newsagent members. From reducing use of plastic to reuse on used ink and toner cartridges to paper recycling and reduces carbon emissions, newsXpress newsagents are serious about being better citizens.

While the environmental strategy does not necessarily add to the financial bottom line of newsagencies, it does make for a better corporate citizen and a better connection with the community.

We take our social responsibility seriously and our environmental strategy is part of that.