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S A Partners launches Ireland business |
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January 2010 - S A Partners launches Ireland business
S A Partners has announced a new business in Ireland (S A Partners Lean Consultancy Ltd). We have been working for some time with Irish businesses including C&C Group – producers of Magners cider – which appointed S A Partners to help it not only to implement Lean principles, but also to develop a skilled internal resource that could sustain and build on the improvements made.
C&C’s IT & Continuous Improvement Director, Shane Hughes commented: “S A Partners has provided leadership and technical skills that have helped us to embrace and sustain a Lean approach to doing business. We work with them as strategic partners, not consultants, and this subtle difference is the key value they add to an organisation.”
Director of S A Partners Ireland, Chris Butterworth commented: “We have a distinctive offering that goes beyond our consulting expertise. S A Partners has access to the latest academic research on Lean and offers learning programmes that enable our clients to take ownership of their continuous improvement going forward. We hope that by establishing a local Irish business we can develop close relationships with our Irish clients.”
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January 2010 - New alliances announced
S A Partners has extended its offering by forming new alliances with MA Consulting and the Leading Edge Group.
MA Consulting supports organisations to optimise business processes, unlock funding potential, open new markets and grow sales, implement change and solve people or operational issues. This is delivered by a specialist team working through a unique ‘virtual’ business model. The alliance between S A Partners and MA Consulting will see the two consultancies working together in particular to support struggling businesses back to a position of stability, profitability and growth.
The Leading Edge Group is a provider of flexible online Lean Thinking education and training programmes. These enable organisations to support their implementation of a Lean philosophy, and to better ensure that benefits are sustained, by developing Lean skills at every level of their human resource. Programmes are accredited by strategic partners including University College Cork, The Institute of Industrial Engineers (Ireland and US) and the Logistics Institute (Canada).
For more information visit the allies page.
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Food Manufacture Awards winners announced |
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Winners of 2009 Food Manufacture Excellence Awards announced
 Food Manufacture's Excellence Awards were presented at a ceremony in London on 11 November to recognise innovation, improvement and excellence in food manufacture and processing.
Samworth Brothers scooped the Chilled Ready Meals and Prepared Foods Award, sponsored by S A Partners. Judges said that they had been wowed by their dynamism across the board, from new product development and category management to environmental initiatives and people development. They hailed it as "a company with a truly admirable ethos".
Photo: Professor Peter Hines, chairman of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre and of S A Partners, (left) presents Brian Stein, group chief executive of Samworth Brothers, with the coveted prize.
The other finalists in this category were Greencore Food to Go and NOM Dairy UK. For details of all the finalists, and winners, visit the event website.
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July 09: Lean or Green - do we have to choose? |
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Lean or Green - do we have to choose?
 Have you seen our "Lean or Green?" advertisement?
According to a 2009 survey by Booz & Co, 40% of businesses expect to delay or slow down their green initiatives due to the economic downturn. We believe these businesses are missing a trick. Our approach to performance improvement retains all the economic advantages of the Lean philosophy AND delivers significant environmental benefits.
Click here to read about how you can bring your Lean and Green initiatives together.
Click here to join Professor Peter Hines' Lean and Green networking group on Linked In.
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about your interest in Lean and Green, and we will call you back.
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Download Source - the home of Lean Thinking
In this Summer 2009 edition of Source:
Professor Peter Hines explains how businesses can take an integrated approach to process and environmental wastes by going Lean and Green.
We find out how musical instrument distributors Roland UK used direct feedback from their customers to inform their strategy for growth.
Gary Griffiths takes us through Value Stream Management and explains how it is different to Value Stream Mapping.
Dr Janet Godsell from the Cranfield Supply Chain Research Centre tells us how recession can be a prime time to move from industry laggard to leader.
 Click the front cover to read or download your pdf copy.
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