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Edition No. 41 – September 2021 Newsletter Maurice Ward Group Edition No. 41 September 2021 CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT OUR 1|Page LATEST NEWS [email protected] 9001 Certified 50001 Certified www.mauriceward.com

Edition No. 41 – September 2021 CONTENTS September 2021 Page 4 Page 9 What can MWG’s Marketing team do Maurice Ward Art Handling for your office? Page 10 Page 6 Meet our MWG team in Switzerland Something positive will come out of this crisis Page 12 Maurice Ward UK’s Project Mexico Page 7 Port of Rotterdam Page 13 Why learning Microsoft Excel is Important Page 8 Maurice Ward Czech Republic Page 14 recertifications Environmentally-friendly workplace? This is how you contribute! Page 8 Special delivery for tennis star Novak Djokovic Welcome back! We hope you have had an enjoyable summer. Big thank you to all of you for your ongoing [email protected] contributions and dedication and for taking www.mauriceward.com actions each day to serve our customers well. Hope you have rested and relaxed well during the summer holidays and that you came back refreshed and energized. Together we will face the new challenges ahead and continue our road to excellence in customer service and performance. 2|Page 9001 Certified 50001 Certified

Edition No. 41 – September 2021 We want to thank our #teamMWG for our company. It takes all of us working your continued dedication to Maurice together to help shape the future of Ward Group (MWG). We are truly MWG. It is important for us to provide our shipping something special together: worldwide colleagues with the our customers' success and yours. opportunity to connect with each other and give feedback through our Everyone has a voice at MWG, and when Newsletters. Be a part of the journey by we listen to each other’s ideas, we create reaching out via…………………………………………. value within our immediate teams and [email protected]! Our Mission Our mission is to provide our customers with reliable, cost-effective and innovative logistics solutions. Hence, earning the trust of our customers through hard work and dedication to maintain the highest standards of honesty, integrity and professionalism. We are shipping something special together: our customers' success and yours! Marketing team MWG 3|Page [email protected] [email protected] 9001 Certified 50001 Certified www.mauriceward.com

Edition No. 41 – September 2021 Without marketing, a business is like sitting in the dark and expecting people to find you without․ What can MWG’s Marketing team do for your office? The Marketing department plays a key role in Printed materials promoting MWG, maintaining our branding while keeping the mission of our company central. The Ideal branding tools that enable you to team is among others responsible for branding, reach out to your target market and PR, communication, maintaining all marketing enhance brand awareness. The assets such as the website and supporting the Marketing team can prepare a wide range Business Development team in their lead of design, according to your needs, such generation efforts. as business cards, flyers, door signs, banners, caps, t-shirts, mugs, pens, etc. How can you leverage from our Marketing Your local printing company will take department? care of the printing part Presentations Market research It is the responsibility of the marketing Research helps us define targets and department to come up with creative ideas to understand how our services are create new presentations and update existing perceived. ones. 4|Page [email protected] 9001 Certified 50001 Certified www.mauriceward.com

Edition No. 41 – September 2021 (Signature) banners regarding how many people read the campaign, unsubscribed, etc. You can contact the Marketing team to prepare Do you want to implement an email campaign banners and flyers of different types specially and gain new business? Email to designed for your office. See below examples. [email protected] Market research Research helps us define targets and understand how our services are perceived. News section website, Newsletter The Marketing team is here to help you spread the word! Send us some information, ideas and photos and the rest will be taken care of. A solid article will be created and spread internally and externally among news outlets all around the world! Do you want to contact MWG’s Marketing Department? Send an email to [email protected] Email campaign Do you need to write a letter to your customers/agents or internal to colleagues? Some MWG countries have already started with email campaigns. How does it work? Send us Do you need a professional document the email contact list of your customers and according to MWG branding? agents in excel and we will upload it in our email marketing software (Mautic). With one click all We have taken care of that and updated all the contacts will receive the banner. letterheads of MWG offices. If you want, write The email campaign will also have an us: [email protected] unsubscribe button. In 72 hours, our team will send you an analytical report sharing statistics 5|Page [email protected] 9001 Certified 50001 Certified www.mauriceward.com

Edition No. 41 – September 2021 Something positive will come out of this crisis How has the transport and logistics sector been doing in this difficult period of crisis? To start with, our teams have once again demonstrated to what extent we can be flexible. Some companies have had to temporarily shut down vehicles, others have had to rush to find extra capacity for the transport of essential goods and so flexibility has enabled many companies to respond to the major challenges that were not lacking in the coronavirus crisis. Our sector has also once again demonstrated the level to which the transports are necessary to fill the racks on time and sufficiently. We have known that for a long time, but the general public needed a major crisis to discover the professionalism of drivers and logistics companies. Let's hope everyone remembers the efforts of the logistics industry as we return to the daily traffic jams. This leads us to question whether we want to waste our time on the road for a long time to come, now that employees have shown – often in difficult circumstances with small children at home – that teleworking goes well and even has productivity benefits. Let's hope that many companies and employees will change their approach to working time after the crisis and that people will work from home much more often. By the way, during this period in several countries there have been considerably fewer accidents with deaths or injuries on the road compared to previous years. Just think what the effect would be if people structurally switch to teleworking. Our roads would become a lot calmer and safer for professional drivers. It is clear that nothing will be like before the coronavirus, but it doesn't necessarily have to be worse than before. On the contrary! We can emerge stronger if we demonstrate creativity, innovative strength and flexibility. One should never waste a good crisis, said Churchill, who knew what he was talking about. 6|Page [email protected] 9001 Certified 50001 Certified www.mauriceward.com

Edition No. 41 – September 2021 Port of Rotterdam The Port of Rotterdam came into existence in 1283 when a small fishing village was created at the mouth of the Rotte River by reclaiming a tract of land. The port became a major seaport in 1360 after the construction of a canal to the Schie. Now the Port of Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe, located in the city of Rotterdam, Netherlands. From 1962 until 2002, it was the world’s busiest port, but was overtaken first by Singapore and later by Shanghai. Covering 105 square kilometers, the port of Rotterdam now stretches over a distance of 40 kilometers. Most important for the port of Rotterdam is the petrochemical industry and general cargo transshipment handlings. The harbour functions as an important transit point for transport of bulk and other goods between the European continent and other parts of the world. The smart link in your supply chain, the Port that will take you ahead! Contact the team in Netherlands and see how you can sail along on the Rotterdam success and be ready for the future! 7|Page [email protected] 9001 Certified 50001 Certified www.mauriceward.com

Edition No. 41 – September 2021 Maurice Ward Czech Republic recertifications Our team in Czech Republic recertificates every Click on the logos to see the recertification year for FORS standards, Fleet Operator document. Recognition Scheme, for UK city center deliveries. This is a voluntary accreditation body 1 committed to raising the quality of vehicle services by ensuring all fleet operations are being run to the FORS standard based on legal compliance, safety efficiency and environmental protection. Moreover, they are also accredited for Border Force for \"Civil Penalty accreditation scheme\". This helps road transport companies and their drivers secure their vehicles to stop 'clandestine entrants'. A clandestine entrant is a person who hides in or on a vehicle to avoid going through UK border control. Special delivery for tennis star Novak Djokovic We were honored to take care of a special machine move for the tennis star Novak Djokovic, air freight from Denver, US to Belgrade, Serbia. Who is Novak Djokovic you might ask? He is one of the greatest tennis players in history and arguably the greatest Serbian sportsman of all- time. Djokovic’s 20 Grand Slam titles puts him in a three-way tie atop the all-time men’s singles Grand Slam titles list. 8|Page [email protected] 9001 Certified 50001 Certified www.mauriceward.com

Edition No. 41 – September 2021 Maurice Ward Art Handling Need a place to store your artwork before it heads off to a new exhibition or private collection? Our temperature-controlled facilities are perfect for short- and long-term storage. Get in touch at [email protected] for more info. 9|Page [email protected] 9001 Certified 50001 Certified www.mauriceward.com

Edition No. 41 – September 2021 Meet our MWG team in It’s also fascinating because it’s a land made up Switzerland of multiple linguistic groups. In fact, the Swiss have turned their multilingual identity into one of Switzerland is a landlocked mountainous their greatest natural resources. So, what are country in South-Central Europe, bordered by all the languages spoken in Switzerland? Austria, France, Germany, Italy, and German, French, Italian and Romansh are all Liechtenstein. With an area of 41,285 km², the official languages in Switzerland. country is just slightly smaller than the Discover the freshly updated Corporate Netherlands or almost twice the size of the US state of New Jersey. Bern or Berne is the capital Presentations on MWG’s website. You can of Switzerland. People are naturally fascinated by Switzerland, download them and afterwards also share with and this admiration isn’t just a love for chocolate and mountain walks (all right, maybe customers and business partners. a little bit ). 10 | P a g e [email protected] 9001 Certified 50001 Certified www.mauriceward.com

Edition No. 41 – September 2021 “Together with Ricardo, MW CH deputy and with the company in the last 4 years, we do a job The amazing natural beauty of the majestic rotation, he took over the lead of the Company Alps, the placid lakes, quaint villages, as Country Manager. cosmopolitan cities and towering castles, that's Leaving the company was never an option but I just some of what Switzerland has to offer. The had the feeling to focus on my strength more on international registration code for Switzerland Business Development, to be even closer to our is CH and 41 is the country calling code. That local customers and worldwide agents”, Philip brings us to Ricardo J. Fasana, Country added. He is now acting as Deputy Country Manager Switzerland, and his fantastic team. Manager. It is on our colleagues’ expertise, innovation, Facts about MWG Switzerland: drive and relationships that we depend on for the development and growth of our business. • 1st of April 2016 Opening of CH branch Philip, Ricardo and team, thank you for being an • Started with 2 people Philipp Mathys indispensable part of our Maurice Ward Group family. (100 %) & Muriel Casutt (parttime 50%) • Country Manager Ricardo J. Fasana The word “logistics” comes from a joined the Company in June 2017 • Continuous growth up to a max staff of 19th-century French word, “Logistique”. 10 in 2019 • Current size of the team is 9 • March 2020, move to a larger office, about 5 minutes away from Zurich Airport • In 2021, 3 team members are celebrating their 5th work anniversary at MWG Switzerland. Congratulations to ... After building up and leading MWG Switzerland for the past 5 years, Philip Mathys decided to hand over the lead into new hands. When he started back in March 2016, it was only him and one colleague. However, the team kept on growing, back in July 2017 there were 5 people in the team and currently it grew to total 9 team members. “After 5 years in the company the start-up process is finished and for me it's a good timing to hand over the leadership”, said Philip. The new Country Manager is Mr. Ricardo J. Fasana. 11 | P a g e [email protected] 9001 Certified 50001 Certified www.mauriceward.com

Edition No. 41 – September 2021 Maurice Ward UK’s Project Mexico For these 3 x OOG pieces, the team did onsite packing at shippers’ premises, moved to the port, loaded, lashed, secured and sheeted onto the FR container. Job well done #teamUK! Great idea Max! 12 | P a g e [email protected] 9001 Certified 50001 Certified www.mauriceward.com

Edition No. 41 – September 2021 • Create charts, visualizations, and dashboards to represent data Why learning Microsoft Excel is Important • Manage inventory, human resources, and finances across different industries In this world of remote everything, skill development has become an ever-growing • Allows real-time collaboration to share quality. Whether professionals or students, and manage work faster obtaining several skills will keep you one step ahead of others. Starting from business inventory management to your daily basic calculations, Excel sorts So, which is an important program you must everything in a very short time. learn as a part of your computer skills? Definitely, Microsoft Excel is. Below you have several online courses, which make it easy to learn Microsoft Excel for free, Microsoft Excel is a powerful data analyzing helping you build in-demand skills on your own program with wide-range capacities, used by time. millions of people every day, as well as the most flexible program to analyze any type of data with Excel Skills for Business: Intermediate I | Coursera a vast number of functionalities. It is a popular tool for Business, Engineering, Accountancy, (247) ExcelIsFun - YouTube and many other industries. (247) The Beginner's Guide to Excel - Excel Basics Things you can do with Excel: Tutorial - YouTube • Analyze a huge amount of data and make (247) 12 New features in Excel for 2021 // Updates in predictions to implement business Microsoft Excel Web and Desktop - YouTube decisions Build your foundation in Excel (linkedin.com) • Easily create spreadsheets from templates or on your own and use modern formulas to perform calculations 13 | P a g e [email protected] 9001 Certified 50001 Certified www.mauriceward.com

Edition No. 41 – September 2021 Environmentally-friendly workplace? This is how you contribute! Reducing our impact on the environment, a hot and a year of “internetting” is equivalent to the topic that finally has conquered the workplace CO2 emissions of a 1400 km car journey. due to the massive telework in 2020. Do you want to continue that green line? With these tips What can you do about that? Clean your mailbox you can help build a greener working regularly. A lower storage space lowers the environment. environmental impact of your e-mail traffic. Do not just send every question via email. Often a Print consciously quick phone call is more efficient. Share heavy Do you want to contribute to a lower mountain files via WeTransfer or Dropbox and of waste? Stop printing emails and encourage unsubscribe from newsletters and your colleagues to do the same. Instead opt for advertisements that you do not view. storing documents in the cloud or on an external hard drive. Do you really have to print? Set up Recycle your printer for double-sided printing and use An empty coffee cup, a wad of aluminum foil at recycled paper. The production of recycled lunch, an empty cola can after the afternoon dip, paper requires half the energy and much less etc. Small daily habits at the end of the month water. Moreover, don't just throw away your make for a well-filled garbage bag. That could empty ink cartridges, but take them to a be better, no? Swap disposable cups for a dedicated waste point so they can be reused. coffee mug, put your lunch in a lunch box and make it a point to properly sort your waste. You Reduce your digital communication can also make your office supplies a little Dozens of e-mails a day, checking your social greener. Replace disposable pens with refillable media, an online search, etc. You do not use pens and promote the ‘sharing mentality’ at paper with it, but that does not mean that it has work. Not every employee needs their own no effect on the environment. Digital technology stapler and perforator. From now on you can consumes electricity, which inevitably creates keep such things in the shared cupboard. greenhouse gases. Not to mention the impact of energy-hungry servers that have to store all One degree less digital information. Moreover, Internet use is Good ventilation ensures a healthier indoor responsible for about 4 percent of greenhouse climate and counteracts the so-called sick gas emissions worldwide – as much as air building syndrome that causes headaches, dry traffic! – and is increasing year after year. eyes, sore throat, fatigue and concentration Sending a 1MB e-mail consumes as much problems. The fact that we have been opening energy as an old lamp that burns for 25 minutes windows and doors en masse since COVID is a good thing, but don't forget to turn off the 14 | P a g e [email protected] 9001 Certified 50001 Certified www.mauriceward.com

Edition No. 41 – September 2021 heating while airing. And why not organize a big lower your energy bill. Organize a small energy sweater day at the workplace every now and scan at work with your colleagues. Spotted old then? Turning the thermostat down by one lamps? Replace them with energy-efficient LED degree results in 7% less greenhouse gases. bulbs that use only 10% of the power compared to incandescent or halogen bulbs. Reduce your energy consumption Did you know that appliances in standby are Go green responsible for 5 to 10% of the total energy Plants in the office can increase job consumption in companies? Make it a habit to satisfaction and concentration by up to 20%, turn off your computer and monitor at the end according to research. In addition, they of the workday. The printer, coffee machine and contribute to healthy air quality. More natural microwave oven also consume a lot of energy in greenery in the workplace is therefore definitely sleep mode. A timer socket switches all a good idea. And how about a joint vegetable appliances off automatically after a certain garden project? It strengthens the team spirit, time. And that's not the only thing you can do to helps you de-stress and immediately provides you with healthy snacks for lunch. 15 | P a g e [email protected] 9001 Certified 50001 Certified www.mauriceward.com

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