Author: Mark Elliott

The Rimstock Plc Group of companies is a worldwide organisation supplying high quality products to a global customer base. The company was founded by Steve Neal, the farther of the famous British racing driver Matt Neal, who is also the company marketing director. Rimstock is notably known for its leading aftermarket alloy wheel brand ‘Team Dynamics’, distributing its products via its loyal customer base in over 40 countries worldwide. It is approved by and supplies a host of the leading OEM vehicle manufacturers including Aston Martin, Bentley and VW.

I (Tom) first met Matt Neal at the 2013 Autosport International show who kindly took time out from his sponsor, media and other work related duties to have a chat. Understandably it was only a brief conversation, but after sending a few e-mails back and forth, 12 months later I was back at Autosport International with the Team Dynamics keyrings you can see above. The keyrings were based on their most popular Team Dynamics Pro Race 1.2 wheels and proved to be a real hit.

Since then we have built a fantastic relationship and produced a couple more items together in a relatively short period of time. These include the Rimstock keyrings, again sporting the ever popular Team Dynamics Pro Race 1.2 wheels and the 30th year anniversary keyrings and enamel badges, both pictured above.

Being a company that has manufactured items for over 40 years, it’s great to see other British companies achieve such a significant milestone, a massive feat not only for Rimstock, but for British manufacturing considering the market and competition from overseas.

It’s always great to meet up and work with Matt, as despite being a triple BTCC champion and easy to work with, he’s a proper genuine bloke (and a pretty quick one too)!

This was a while back now, but it’s always nice to see well respected personnel with something your company made and this is no exception! We think this is an awesome picture of the legendary racing driver Keiichi Tsuchiya sporting one of the equally awesome 7tune keyrings we produced. If you don’t know who Tsuchiya is, read this little extract I (shamelessly) copied from Wikipedia….

‘Keiichi Tsuchiya is a professional race car driver. He is also known as the “Drift King” (or Dorikin (ドリキン)) for his nontraditional use of drifting in non-drifting racing events and his role in popularizing drifting as a motorsport. He is also known for touge (mountain pass) driving’.

Lots of hard work was put into these to get the look and finish that was achieved on these keyrings and believe me, it’s not easy to get runny enamel paint to spread evenly on a domed surface. Also each keyring is individually numbered on the rear, meaning each one is truly unique, so I wonder what number Tsuchiya got in the end…..

Yorkshire Badges was launched in 2011.

At the Yorkshire Badges workshop in Sheffield, we’ve been making beautiful Yorkshire gifts since 1975 and take pride in spreading the Yorkshire Rose. Yorkshire Day is naturally the most popular occasion to celebrate ones homeland and it’s no surprise we’ve been known to post the Yorkshire Rose as far a New Zealand, Canada and the Far East! Know a friend far away? Let us know! We would love to send them a friend of Yorkshire badge!

We make all our enamel, gold & silver gifts in the traditional way, meaning each lapel pin, cufflink, bookmark and earring is unique to you. Easily the most sought after token of Yorkshire is without a doubt the traditional Yorkshire Rose Cufflinks. These are most commonly presented as gifts on Yorkshire weddings or as wedding favours to the best man and ushers.

The most iconic emblem of Yorkshire (apart from us and Henderson’s Relish of course), is the white Yorkshire Rose which takes pride of place on the flag. This is different from the Lancaster Rose, which is red from the notorious ‘war of the roses’. However we did find some debate over ‘which way up’ the Yorkshire Rose should go and sought the most definitive answer we could find from the Yorkshire Society.

We feel our original Yorkshire lapel pin captures the essence of Yorkshire. We’re proud to be manufacturing in Sheffield and a 3rd generation family business passing on skills like enamelling, and metal work down the family. There’s this new ‘internet’ thing that didn’t exist when we started in the 70’s, but we’re doing our best to keep the love of Yorkshire alive on our Yorkshire Badges Facebook and Twitter pages!

Yorkshire Badges is part of the House of Logos Group.

In an ever changing world, the long service award has undergone quite a change. The traditional milestones of 15, 20, 25 and 30 years tend to have been replaced with 5, 10 and 15 years. To put it simply, this is down to people tending to move jobs more frequently.

Forward thinking employers tend to hold annual anniversary events for all staff that have completed a specific milestone.

The best employers are good at communicating the award and make the most of public presentations. This means the award will have a positive impact on the recipient’s peers and co-workers.

House of Logos has been producing long service awards in hallmarked sterling silver, 9ct & 18ct gold for many years. They are tailor made to individual customer needs and can incorporate the company logo or product.

The most popular long service award item we produce is the lapel pin badge simply because it can incorporate the company logo and when worn by the recipient, it creates a talking point amongst colleagues. This can be seen with the 9ct & 18ct gold Hatfields lapel pins pictured.

For a long service award to be meaningful, it is important that the employee knows they are eligible and the purpose of the award is reinforced to everyone in the presentation.

Our hallmarked sterling silver, 9ct & 18ct gold items are not high cost, but have a high per-sieved value, as they can not be bought of the shelf. This means the long service awards are truly unique and individual to each recipient.