Saturday 17th September 2011 saw IQ Storage Solutions attend as one of the key sponsors of the Queensbury Boxing League Event held at Epsom Park Racecourse.

These events are run by a team of professionals lead by  ex professional boxer Ross Minter and Alan Foley whose team ensured that a superb evening of fight entertainment was well run whilst patrons had the option to either sit and enjoy a two course meal in the VIP section or attend as a spectator only.  The events are well organised with a wide range of fighting abilities on show at different weight levels providing a good evening of entertainment.  As one of the key sponsors IQ Storage Solutions were proud to present  the title belt to Light Middleweight Champion Lewis Pinto (pictured above).  This event is due to be televised on Sky Premier Channel 433 on Saturday 8th October at 8pm so tune in and see us there!

Okay so not really about boxes today, more about training in Brighton, combined with selling boxes.

Off to my usual training centre at Silicon Beach Training – situated quite cosily in the hip hop area of Brighton. This is not my first visit to the training centre and the first thing that amazes me as I drive into the now familiar car park two streets away, is that I am greeted so to speak by the sight of the same tramp on the same mattress in the same corner – quite depressing but obviously works for him in some way.  The mystery that I have yet failed to solve, is where on earth he disappears to – as upon my return at the end of a day’s training – there is no sign of tramp nor mattress – nor the accompanying stench.

Training is pretty good and I meet my fellow trainees – the wannabee clever clogs to my left and the quiet unassuming young man to my right – a web designer sporting smart trousers and shirt with accompanying matching chunky African bracelets on each wrist…… oh yes we are in Brighton I remember now

The day passes reasonably quickly and I think i have absorbed a vast amount of information that will allow me to make the presentation of this blog easier to read and easier on the eye  and hopefully more interesting to those that want to follow the life of an IQS box seller.

Talking of boxes – this week’s ‘most wanted box’ award goes to the IQS11051 – red/grey 50 litre stack/nest box made of heavy duty plastic – delivered to your door for £20 plus VAT (minimum order 20).  Check it out on our website www.iqstorage.co.uk

Intelligent Box Solutions

In this ever increasingly competitive world, here at IQ Storage we continually strive to find quality manufacturers whose products we’d be happy to distribute.   With European manufacturers in the main tied into sole distributorship agreements with resellers and limited secondhand availability on the market, this ultimately makes the market very limited in terms of choice of supplier for the end user.

Faced with this in mind I started talking to Elvis – not the crooner known famously for renditions such as Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender – but a Chinese manufacturer whom I made contact with via the powers of social  networking.  Elvis is a very polite man who is striving to promote his company and his country’s wares in terms of quality and competitive edge.

The thing that becomes immediately apparent when talking to the Chinese is that whatever it is you want – whether it be plastic boxes, paper bags or solar pv panels – they know a man who can.  It can be a slow process when it comes to achieving the right specification and the right price but they strive hard to achieve this goal in a seemingly pleasant and non aggressive manner.

It is early days but the Chinese are responsive and keen to do business.   As we ping e-mails to and fro with regards product specifications and pricing i can’t help feeling that one day we will actually get there.  Either way this is already developing into an interesting learning curve.