When Essex County Council’s inward investment department ‘INVEST Essex’ needed 1000 fully customised USB flashdrives in a hurry, Graham Marshall & his team at Recognition Express in Essex rose to the challenge producing them in just 7 days including importing the flashdrives from China.

Putting the ‘Express’ in Recognition Express Graham pulled out all the stops to make sure the USB sticks, fully loaded with data files, that promoted Essex as a business location,  were ready in time.

Graham said; “It was important we got the order done quickly; Chinese New Year was just around the corner and this could have meant a huge delay in shipment of the drives from the Far East. The whole team were aware of this and everyone worked very hard to make sure the USB sticks were with ‘’INVEST Essex’ in time for their first event.”

Paul Martin, Marketing Development Manager for Invest Essex said; “Graham and his team at Recognition Express Essex did a fantastic job.  We gave him an extremely tight deadline but it simply wasn’t a problem.  The USB sticks are integral to our marketing campaign to get businesses to move to Essex and we are really grateful he had them ready on time.”

Essex is seeing something of a mini boom in business with the imminent arrival of the London 2012 Games.  The venue for the Olympic Mountain Bike event at Hadleigh Farm, is just 7 miles from Graham’s factory, and he is already receiving daily orders from contractors and event planners.  Says Graham; “The requests are for everything from ID cards and clothing to signage and promotional products.  We expect to see a steady increase in enquiries for these products as the date for the opening ceremony draws closer.”