As a company it is important you target your promotional merchandising to the right clients and offer them something really useful that they will want to keep for a long time.

For the more elderly clients or those with a weaker grip a branded jar opener is the ideal gift. These jar openers come  hand shaped or rectangular and can be customised in full colour with your logo, message and company name. They look great and are really useful! How many times a week do we open a jar? On all of those occasions, your existing and potential clients could be reminded of your company and helped all at the same time!

Ladies often have to ask their husband to open a jar for them and sometimes a lid is on so firmly even the husband has to reach for the jar opener! If you want to know more about promotional jar openers,  see www.mikkis.co.uk.

There is now a varied range of promotional torches available, in a range of shapes and sizes, ready for your companies branding! As well as the traditional shaped torches there are torches that are hidden inside a credit card type card; torches that also make a designer desk light,wind up branded torches or ones that can charge via your pc’s usb slot. Most have either bright LED or traditional torch bulbs.

It is always important to think about the lifespan of any promotional item or gadget you are going to give out. Torches aren’t seasonal or just for a specific occasion. It gets dark every day of the year! It is likely to be used more regularly in the winter months but it has potential to be year round, year after year, what super value for money and opportunities for repeat exposure, placing your company at the forefront of your customers thoughts!

To find out more about branded torches, go the premium portfolio section of www.mikkis.co.uk  .

Great news though, coasters and some counter mats can also have the same, great new finish. Your company name and logo would look amazing under this glossy mouse mat surface and its not even any more money! Have a look at www.mikkis.co.uk to see the whole mouse mat, counter mat and coaster range.

At Mikkis we do an enormous range of promotional items, however, these little guys are supplied by our sister company, www.usb-europe.co.uk, why not check out their fabulous range too.

I am wondering if lots of my customers think this too as hand warmers have become really popular in the last 2 /3 weeks. If we do get a very cold snap, your customers will be reaching for their hand warmers and leaving them in their coat pockets ready for whenever they venture outside!

Promotional hand warmers and hand warmer keyrings are a cost effective promotional item that will be used this winter and next, so they are a long lasting way of getting your name in front of your customer!

Here at www.mikkis.co.uk we have hundreds of ideas and there is bound to be something for every budget and occasion. As its winter why not check out our christmas themed stress balls at www.stress-balls.co.uk or our christmas promotional snow shakers on the mikkis site.

The research is important for three reasons. First it highlights the potential problem for the platypus of climate change. Secondly it shows that climate change can have implications not only for land living animals but also for water based animals as the rivers and streams heat up. Thirdly, it highlights how climate change can have an impact on many creatures including the Platypus.

It is the Platypus’ insulating fur coat that allows it to survive in zero degree temperatures that may be its downfall as temperatures rise. The only place for the Platypus to cool off is in its burrow but it can’t feed there so has to be able to go into the water to survive.

The rising temperatures will probably make the Platypus’ move location to find deeper cooler streams in which they can thrive. If the trend continues it may be that they will end up congregating in areas such as Tasmania, King Island and Kangaroo Island where the temperatures are cooler.

Whilst we can’t supply you with a Platypus we can help you if you would like an animal stress ball to give away as a corporate gift. We can provide animals as diverse as a ram, mouse, toucan or puffin as well as panthers, gorillas, pandas or frogs. To see our entire range of stress balls just visit us at www.stress-balls.co.uk or www.mikkis.co.uk where I’m sure you will find something of interest.

An unusual recycled USB is the USB wristband a convenient and snappy products popular with the younger generation. We also have our most popular models in a recycled version such as the Pod, Wedge, Twist Drive and Card USB.

We also have recycled flash drives on our main site www.usb-europe.co.uk where you will find an extensive range of flash drives. If you wold like to know more you are more than welcome to contact us and we will do our utmost to be of assistance to you.

The UK export play War Horse has scooped 5 Tony awards in the US including Best Play. War Horse opened at the National Theatre then moved to the West End and then went on to Broadway. The play, based on a 1982 novel, tells the story of a horse in the carnage of World War 1. The play also won design awards for scenery, lighting and sound and has been made into a film by Steven Spielberg.

If you would like to purchase something reminiscent of this great play then we can supply many war related promotional items such as stress balls in the shape of a tank, an army man, a grenade, an armoured truck or a military helicopter, or if you would prefer we can supply a horse stress ball. To view all the items we have on offer you can visit our sites at www.mikkis.co.uk or www.stress-balls.co.uk where you will find a huge range to choose from.

Although mortgage borrowing actually rose in April the Council of Mortgage Lenders said that this was not the likely trend for the year.

The surveys published this year all seem to show a slight downward trend in house prices, as well as a widespread variation in house prices throughout the UK.

A RICs spokesman said that interest in buying property has remained flat throughout the year due to both the economic climate and the lack of mortgage funds.

It seems that house prices in England remained the same whereas in London they grew by 3.6%. Northern Ireland saw a drop of 15.2% as did Scotland 1.2 % and Wales 1.4%.

If you work as part of the housing market then why not consider purchasing a house stress ball to promote your company. We here at Mikkis can supply these as well as bricks and many other housing related stress balls. We are all providers of all kinds of promotional items and corporate gifts so why not visit our sites at www.mikkis.co.uk or www.stress-balls.co.uk where I’m sure you will find something to spark your imagination.

It seems that different parts of the brain are talking to each other as consciousness slips away. It is hoped that the work will ultimately help doctors to pinpoint damage caused by stroke and head injury. The findings support a theory put forward by Dr Susan Greenfield of the University of Oxford that different parts of the brain inhibit each other as consciousness wanes.

The new technique called Functional Electrical Impedance Tomography by Evoked Response (fEITER) is a more compact process that fMRI, which can be easily used in the operating theatre. It works by sending low electrical impulses through the skull by way of tens of electrodes and the signals are interrupted by the brain’s own electrical signals and tissue.

It is hoped that this technique will be able to tell much about patients with stroke or head injury as well as tell us much about consciousness itself.

If you would like a little reminder of this technique or are just interested in brains generally then why not consider purchasing some brain stress balls to sit on your desk? These are miniature squeezy brains intended as stress relievers. They are the ideal corporate gift especially if you are in an NHS related profession. To see our entire range of stress balls and our other promotional gifts just visit us at www.mikkis.co.uk or www.stress-balls.co.uk where you will find a huge range of items to choose from.