February part 1

January 17 we had our new year's reception. Love the location. Simply in our warehouse surrounded by pallets. Speech was pretty good. Words, tone and cohesion were presented in a way that it was clear to all of us what is expected of each individual and team. Afterwards the traditional tombola. And basis an idea of a person of whom I will not mention the name, but it was Chris, the set up was different. The person picked out had to give away the present to someone else. Only one from the sales side was lucky to give a way his present. Instead of handing the present over to me, his favorite colleague (obviously not) he gave it to Annemiek another favorite colleague (and celebtraing here 5th year anniversary with Petpower, congrats) Afterwards I was talking to Tom about tennis and we thought that the rest of the team was already back to work, bunch of eager beavers. But when we stepped outside we saw them all together 'fighting' for french fries. With cold feet and a full tummy I went home.


Someone asked "Who is Steynking". Well, Steynking is my 10 year old son. The youngman you see in January part 1, in the youtube about Ali B. Steyn is a talented artist and tabletennis player. As every father "a son to be proud of", you can follow his creativity on youtube by simple searching for winnaar183 . 
And by the way I found the person responsible for the museum at our office. Ivo you are halfway in cleaning up. Thanks mate.


Today, January 25th, Angelique is present at a seminar (focussed on design) in Breda. Location the MOTI Museum. Inspiring place to meet people and out of the box thinking. Hope that customers and potentials have a fun day and challenge us to design new bottles or jars for them. In the weeks before this event I noticed a commercial on dutch television I like to share with you. This commercial (my advice is to turn of the sound - Carry Tefsen here voice is .....) The reason for sharing is that it places the argument of the packing very very central  as USP. Who knows we can use it in our effort to convince (potential) customers to use our products.

 Hee you all Ton Bastiaansen is the first from production registered as a member of my  
 blog. Thanks man. Ton is Process engineer doing his utmost to solve technical issues and  
 keep machines running. In my first year I was part of a trainingsgroup together with Ton.  
 Had some good discussions with him and I learned a lot of his way of thinking. One of 
 the pillars of the Petpower earth. 



Last friday I was driving home listening to the radio. News is that our dutch government (I believe after 4 years) agreed on a law. This law, the newsreader said, concerns a group of 150-400 muslim ladies to forbid them to wear a burka. This was 10 minutes after I wished someone a nice weekend. But not just someone. This friday I was a bit suprised as two persons were leaving the office later then me. Normally it is the other way around. When I left I said to one of them "hee you are taking a big risk that I will make a joke on my blog" The person said "no names please", I responded "oke no names , I use pictures" And when you combine the news on the radio with this moment you get. 

Good meeting with the after sales team. Step closer in setting up an improved system to allow our offices to be even more in control of the orders. Sophie, Hasan, Isabele, Martina, curious? Ask the after sales team what we are doing for you and find out.


Andre, our man arranging the transport for deliveries to our customers. Honoustly the guy does a great job and I always tell people that he is accurate, eye for details and so on. But since today (30/1) I am not so sure. Last week he asked me for a day of. Out of curiousity I asked why. "Have to celebrate my wife's birthday, big party" was the answer. So oke he would not be there on monday January 30. Guess what, Andre is at work and he simply forgot ....... of course he did not forgot, he simply mentionned the wrong date on the holiday note. ANDRE FOR NEXT YEAR IT WILL BE THE SAME CALENDAR DATE. YOUR WIFE HERE BIRTHDAY IS ON JANUARY 31 AND NOT JANUARY 30. Please make a note in you agenda :-)))))


An inspiring link for sales people