Sustainable FM
June 2008
According to a recent Carbon Trust survey, Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), which represent 99 per cent of all businesses in the UK, are responsible for 20 per cent of the country’s total CO2 emissions. Phil Langley, Managing Director of Premier Watercoolers, believes that SME businesses and large corporations are missing an opportunity to reduce their carbon emissions, which is staring them right in the face every day of the working week.

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FMJ
May 2008
2008 has not been a good year so far for the bottled water industry. MP Graham Springer called for a stop to the quarter of a million bottles of water purchased by the House of Commons; Environment Minister Phil Woolas condemned the bottled water industry on national TV, saying it bordered on being ‘morally unacceptable’; and Cabinet Secretary Gus O’Donnell sent a tap water policy order to all government departments, which will come into effect by the summer.

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Sustainable FM
May 2008
New evidence has now emerged that replacing bottled water coolers with mains fed systems in the workplace could reduce UK businesses carbon footprint by a staggering 68,593 tonnes per annum, representing a 70 per cent emissions saving.

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The Sunday Times
12 April 2008
Phil Langley, Managing Director of Premier Watercoolers, features in The Sunday Times’ ‘How I made It’ column.

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Office Equipment News
1 October 2007
Premier Watercoolers, one of the UK’s independent suppliers of mains fed water coolers in the UK, is one of the largest companies to join a leading-edge scheme designed to help industry improve its safety standards.

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Education Today
1 September 2007
The medical profession has been telling us for many years that children do not drink enough water during the day and that the resulting dehydration contributes to health problems. Now with new food and drink standards coming into play, how do schools ensure access to fresh drinking water is both easy and of high quality – and does it really make that much difference? Education Today finds out.

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Swindon Advertiser
20 May 2007
A Swindon water cooler company has announced a near doubling of its client base in the last 12 months, with customer numbers rising from 750 to more than 1,300. Premier Watercoolers, which fits filtered dispensers that provide chilled drinking water straight from a building's mains supply, claims the high growth is indicative of a shift away from traditional bottled water units. With 2006 turnover at £2m, the business is now expecting to turnover £3m for 2007 and has established its reputation as a high quality service provider in the competitive £200m water cooler market place.

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