Amakuru Rwanda! We had a great week visitng our schools, universities and business customers. It was a privilege to speak to so many educators and learn about all the developments in their institutions since our last visit in 2019. A big thank you to our representative Arthur for looking after us this week and showing us around this beautiful country!
We are now on the DHL GoGreen Plus scheme, which means using sustainable aviation fuel to further reduce our carbon emissions for courier shipments as a company.
For our shipments in 2022 we offset a total of 131,058.26kg CO² emissions with DHL and we’re looking forward to what 2023 brings for green solutions.
Olivia and Noelia are at the National Association of British Schools in Spain (NABSS) conference in Seville. They will be there until Sunday, come and say hi!
Did you know you can access 2023 catalogues on our online portal?
Access the most up-to-date catalogues of the top publishers and suppliers of books and educational resources.
Make sure you’re making the most of our online services! Click here to check them out on the portal, or register if you’ve not used it before.
It is simple and accessible, and gives you access to over 30 different publishers and suppliers catalogues.
And don’t forget to send us your quote requests!
At Mallory International Ltd we are excited to be exhibiting at the 40th COBIS Annual Conference in London next weekend. We are looking forward to meeting our customers and suppliers face to face after far too long! Come and see us on Booth 31!
Meet Noelia! If you would like to contact Noelia regarding a quotation email noelia@malloryint.co.uk. #getintouch #quotation #ourteam
Check out some statistics from our March Shipments! Don’t forget to send us your quotes to ensure your goods arrive in time for the academic year.
Yesterday our warehouse team delivered educational material to UNESCO in the Lebanon. The delivery involved both an air transfer from the UK and a shipment from France. Below is a photo of one box that was delivered.
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Running an environmentally friendly business helps you reduce your impact on the environment and preserves natural resources.
At Mallory we have a number of environmentally friendly products and procedures in place to have a positive impact on the environment.
We endeavor to re-use as much packaging material as possible. When this is not possible we use bio-degradable packaging for 100% of our orders. This includes:
• Cardboard boxes fully biodegradable
• Paper tape: fully recyclable / bio-degradable
• BIO clear stretch film: fully bio-degradable
• BIO void fill quilted film: fully bio-degradable
• BIO bubble wrap: fully bio-degradable
• BIO document wallets in 3 sizes: fully bio-degradable
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Mallory International is a family run business with almost 50% of our employees women! Today we wish them all a Happy International Women’s Day as we empower and celebrate every woman!!
Check out some statistics on our February shipments! #shipmentswordwide #february
This year NABSS (the National Association of British School’s in Spain) will be in Madrid on the 3rd-6th of March. Our Account Managers for Spain, Noelia and Eduardo will be attending the event where they hope to meet our current customers and anyone who would like to learn more about our services. We are very excited to be able to take part in live conferences again and look forward to seeing you there.
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Don’t forget to send us your quotes to ensure all your goods arrive in time for the academic year. Check out just some of the benefits of ordering from Mallory below!
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Get to know our team If you would like to contact Louis regarding a quotation email louis@malloryint.co.uk. #getintouch #ourteam #quotation
In January our team shipped books and educational resources to 46 different countries. Check out the statistics below!
As we settle into 2022 our team at Mallory would like to share with you a few updates as we continue to navigate our way through the repercussions of Brexit and COVID-19.
We are confident that no other company has achieved a better and more extensive solution to both these challenges. It is very important to us that customers receive their orders on time therefore we are continuing to explore new routing options available to give customers the best possible logistic service in 2022.
A note on the supply chains:
• Throughout 2021 suppliers had much lower availability rates than normal, mostly as a result of disruption to supply from Asia. Thanks to the strong relationships with our supply partners, we worked hard to provide customers with up to date product lead times and alternatives to any products that were unfortunately delayed due to COVID-19 and Brexit. We will continue to keep a close eye on this and keep customers informed on the situation as the year progresses.
• For schools using CIE titles, several titles for the new syllabus were delayed partly because publishers also print in Asia. Though we will keep customers informed of lead times in 2022, we would encourage you to place orders as soon as possible to mitigate any potential delays.
We look forward to the new year and working with our current and future customers. Don’t hesitate to get in touch though our Schools Portal, social media pages or contact any of our representatives for more information.
Happy Christmas from all at Mallory International!!
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Happy World Book Day Everyone!
We have been taking the opportunity to think about our favourite fictional characters, see below for just a few!
Here at Mallory we thought it was time to give you some stats, so you can see how things are going. Of course, things are not quite as easy as they previously were, but we are very much still active. We’ve had courier, air, sea and road shipments all leave our warehouse since April.
If you need school supplies, you can rely on us!
What have we shipped and to where?
Should I get in touch?
Absolutely! If you’d like a chat just email us on schools@malloryint.co.uk and we will arrange a conversation.
If you still need to order your UK school supplies you can email schools@malloryint.co.uk or you can register with our portal here
This is just a quick note to reassure customers, both current and prospective, that we are still open amid the Covid-19 pandemic. We are still here to help, to order, to quote, to advise and to send goods.
Our warehouse is open and dispatching goods to customers on a daily basis. We are taking all recommended precautions to make sure that our staff are safe. We are operating on a shift system and keeping maximum distances.
With regards to the office, we are working from home wherever possible. This applies to all of us, most of the time. It brings its own challenges; we have had to rapidly change the way we communicate, some of us are home schooling and, well, we simply miss each other! But this is a global crisis and these are all just small sacrifices so we can play our part. We also have missed seeing a lot of our customers this year. It feels very strange to have to go such a long time without seeing you and we cannot wait until things get back to normal. In the meantime, please do contact us for a video call, we’d love to see you if only virtually.
So, if you needs some classroom resources quoting, are wondering about online resource implementation in your school or are worried about how to get your 2020-2021 procurement, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
If you would like further information, please contact your account manager or our Director for International Schools. Rachel: rachel@malloryint.co.uk
And finally, we hope you are all well. We are thinking of all our wonderful school customers during this difficult time.
Another container is on its way to one of our customers in Tanzania!
Well done to all the people that made this happen!
Mallory International and Maneno Enterprises are happy to announce the completion of their part of the African Development Bank tender for secondary school books in Malawi.
We are happy to know all required books have made into Malawi’s northern region schools, ready for students to use!
From November 27th - December 1st Rachel and Alejandra will be visiting our school and university customers in Uganda. This is Rachel’s second visit to the country, and first time back in Africa post-maternity leave; she can sincerely say she has missed the continent and cannot wait to land in Kamapala. Alejandra holds our Ugandan customer accounts. She is excited to start meeting everyone face-to-face and to see all the fruits of her labour. There is nothing like seeing that hard-to-source book pride of place on a library shelf!
Uganda - we cannot wait to see you!
Olivia and I have just arrived back from a trip to Prague. We return a little tired, but elated at the welcome we received. It was a pleasure to finally meet our newly acquired customers and we were happy to hear all the positive feedback. Doug Wong, whom we have worked extremely closely with over the past 8 months, has obviously done an amazing job with customer service and we thank him for all his hard work over the years and for his cooperation this year.
We promise to keep up a high level of customer service for all the customers we met and trust that the value-added services that Mallory For Schools can offer only eases further the mammoth task of procurement for schools.
We understand that some were surprised at the entourage Doug brought with him and we apologise for overcrowding many a room! We thank all of you for your precious time. Jan is an absolute asset to Mallory For Schools and we can assure you that his dedication to his customers will result in very positive customer relations going forward.
If you are a school in The Czech Republic and are not currently working with us, please do not hesitate to contact Jan: jan@malloryint.co.uk for a meeting.
We leave you with a view from the end of Charles Bridge, until next time Prague!
From November 13th - 22nd our Business Development Manager, Vic, will be visiting our school and university customers in Malawi. Malawi is an old-time friend of Vic’s, he has been there often, not least to help organise the logistics and distribution of 586,000 books to 781 secondary schools across the country. Vic also manages the majority of the school accounts in Malawi.
We are delighted to announce that Mallory International-MIE has acquired the Education Supply Branch of ADC Blackfire. ADC Blackfire is based in Prague and has a 10 year history supplying books and educational materials into schools throughout Europe. Their model is extremely similar to ours, and a perfect fit. We will continue to run a branch out of Prague and will be working together with Blackfire for a smooth transition.
We would also like to take this opportunity to welcome all our new customers, and of course our new member of staff, Jan Langmaier. Jan worked for Blackfire for a number of years and will now work with us at Mallory For Schools. He will retain all his customer accounts and be in Prague to continue supporting schools in The Czech Republic and surrounding areas.
We are thoroughly enjoying ourselves at the NABSS conference this year where we have a stand in the exhibition area. So far we have seen lots of our lovely customers and have been explaining our services to many new faces. If you are around, please pop by, we have our new book pack catalogue on show along with catalogues from all sorts of suppliers covering all subjects and we will happily talk you through our services and take any requests for products that you have found it hard to procure. We look forward to seeing you! - Rachel and Alejandra
We have been supplying schools and institution in Ghana for over 30 years and every year one of us hops on a plane to visit all our wonderful customers there. 2017 has been no exception and after spending a week traveling around Ghana, Lucy has landed back at home with a handful of quotation requests and lots of new friends!
Magali has booked us an exhibition stand at the Association of German International Schools (AGIS) conference in Hannover, Germany.
If you are an International School in Germany and are attending the event we would love to set up an official meeting with you. Please contact us to arrange a discussion with Magali!
We are extremely happy to welcome Gerry Slessenger to our schools team. Gerry now represents us from New Zealand and works together with Vic to develop our customer base in South East Asia.
Gerry has a catalogue of experience within the education supply sector, both UK and US supply. He has worked with us previously in Africa, when he was based in Cape Town, but we are super excited about his relocation to New Zealand. It will be great to have someone working in a completely different time zone and able to respond to our SEA requests while the rest of us are tucked up in bed. He is going to be attending conferences in the South East Asia area and doing some trips for school visits too. We know that there is demand for our services and Gerry’s addition to our team gives us even more confidence that we are able to cater for that demand.
A bit about Gerry: Many years ago, Gerry did an MBA in International Marketing at Kingston University in London and has remained interested in International business. He started two International companies, one operating out of Nairobi, Kenya supplying Missions and Aid agencies the length and breadth of Africa, the other an educational supply company helping schools overseas with all their procurement needs.
After selling these in 2006, he worked for an American Educational Company setting up their UK curriculum division.
Gerry has 3 children and 7 grandchildren. He is interested in Military History (is writing a book on WW1 in the genre of William Boyd), plays golf and loves gardening. Here he is with his son:
