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● News & features ● Fantastic competitions ● Agents’ profiles Issue 32 | March 2012 WIN! LOVE2SHOP VOUCHERS Page 26 100948 WELCOME 2011 AGENTS AWARDS welcomeMarch 2012 It’s an Agent Awards special! PARK 2011 Parklife wouldn’t be Parklife without news and features about our amazing Agents, and this bumper issue is AGENT AWARDS no different. In January we welcomed 35 Agents and their Be sure to check out all the pics and winner interviews from our Agent Awards 2011 from page 3. Who knows, maybe next year you could be amongst them! guests from the UK and Ireland to celebrate We’ve also visited some Agents who are celebrating their 30th anniversary since with us in style at our illustrious seventh joining Park – see why they’ve remained so loyal on page 20. annual Agent Awards. Win a stylish New products have recently been added to our online catalogue – like this Vtech poker globe! Innotab (below). It’s a kind of iPad for kids, helping to develop their skills in Celebrity guest Coleen Nolan and the Park team reading, spelling, maths, logic and creativity. See this and more by going to our (page 27) online catalogue and clicking “Web Exclusive”. played hosts to some of our most dedicated And whether you’ve only just joined us or you’re Agents at this prestigious all-expenses-paid returning to Park for another year, we’d love you to get event in Wirral’s beautiful Thornton Hall Hotel. involved in Parklife - you could be the star of our next issue if you send us your letters (p18), cute pet pics (p25) and stories (see bottom of this page). WEB Dave Harland, Editor EXCLUSIVE Contents Agent Awards Pets & Profile News, photos & interviews from the event 3 Meet an Agent and check out 3 precious pets 25 Your Letters Competitions The latest from the Parklife mailbag and inbox 18 Win vouchers, DVDs and a fab poker globe 26 30 Year Agents Kids Comps Meet Agents reaching a great milestone 20 Three chances for your children to win 28 Yourlife Winners’ Corner Funny stories, hints and a cool Christmas poem 24 Check out who won what 31 Earn £20/€20 Love2shop vouchers Got a funny, interesting or heartwarming story you’d like to share? It could be about you, your family or your customers. Whatever your story, we want to hear it! We’ll pay £20/€20 Love2shop vouchers for every one we print. Send stories and photos to: Parklife Stories, Valley Road, Birkenhead, CH41 7ED, UK or email [email protected] Check out our exclusive Awards coverage and meet all the big winners... 2 | Parklife Parklife | 3 2011 AGENTS AWARDS 2011 AGENTS AWARDS Wining and dining Comedian Aaron James A few glasses of bubbly later, compere- Aside from award winners, we welcomed comedian Aaron James invited us all to our Premier Agents, Facebook competition Peter Johnson with Pamela Wildes Agents arrive seats to enjoy a sumptuous three-course winners and guests from Inspirational Award Glass of bubbly Coleen Nolan dinner with wine. sponsors Debenhams – who presented a prize to the Agent that sold the most As the wine and conversation flowed, the Debenhams vouchers and gift cards. glamorous star of Park’s TV adverts Coleen Nolan joined Park Chairman Peter Johnson Peter Johnson concluded the presentation to present 18 awards and thousands of by thanking Agents for their dedication last LET’S RAISE pounds (and euros!) in prizes. year. “Park is a people company,” he said. “And without the hard work of you, our There were awards for the top selling Agents, and all of our staff, it wouldn’t be Agents in each country, Encouragement the same.” Awards for those who improved their Agency the most from 2010 and a prize for The hilarious Aaron James then gave the top selling first year Agent. everyone a giggle with a host of celebrity A GLASS! impressions before superb Take That tribute This year also saw the return of our band ‘Fake That’ got everyone up dancing. “Inspirational Agent Awards” – special The Park Agent Awards is our way of saying awards for truly remarkable Agents who Park staff waved goodbye to Agents the continually put themselves before others. following morning, and it was clear that thank you to a selection of very special many new friendships had been made as Agents for their Moving stories of how each of them has everyone headed back to their homes dedicated their lives to helping their family, across the British Isles. efforts all year. friends and communities proved how worthy they were of winning. Coleen and Natalie Wood This year’s glitzy Fake That Nancy Murphy Donna Smyth awards bash was one of the best yet. The event began with Agents and their guests being welcomed to the idyllic venue with a Champagne reception whilst a magician wowed everyone with his amazing close-up tricks. 4 | Parklife Parklife | 5 2011 AGENTS AWARDS 2011 AGENTS AWARDS THREE CHEERS Top Agent England £750 Carol Dudley from Manchester winner FOR OUR WINNERS... After landing an invite to last year’s Agent Awards as runner up in this category, Carol Dudley added 16 new customers and upped her total order value by almost 25%. We know that all of you put your heart and soul into She is the perfect example of how growing your Agency in just one year can make all the difference. running your Park Account, but our Agent Awards are for Carol became an Agent in 1992, taking over the running of her those who really go that extra mile to help their friends mum’s Account when she became ill and couldn’t continue. She now has 62 customers and shows no sign of slowing down. and family save for Christmas. Congratulations Carol, you’re a worthy winner! Our winners have all got an incredible amount of customers, proving Carol said: ❝The best thing about being a Park Agent is seeing how happy my customers are when I give them the that the more customers you have, the more sales you’ll have (and the vouchers they’ve saved hard for. more commission you can earn!). I credit my success to the fact that I’ve kept all my original customers over the years and they were all so happy for me First up, our Top Agent prizes were awarded to the Agents with the when I told them I’d won Top Agent for England. highest total sales in their country. I was over the moon too, and really enjoyed the Awards weekend. It was a great room on the night, with good food and really good company. And although I was a little nervous going up to get my Top Agent Overall Top Agent Scotland award, it was worth it, and I’ll be spending my vouchers on a new television.❞ Sandra Young from Fife Sandra Young once again collected the £1500 Top Agent Southern Ireland Overall Top Agent and Top Agent for €750 Scotland awards - her seventh win in a row! winner With 220 customers, Sandra is a model Nancy Murphy from Cork winner Agent, helping practically everybody she knows save for Christmas each year. We were delighted to welcome Agents from Southern Ireland to our Agent Awards for the first time. Having Now in her twentieth year as an Agent, Sandra strives previously saved with Ireland’s Celtic Hampers for nearly 20 years, to keep her Agency growing, and very rightfully Nancy Murphy already had many customers who enjoyed saving deserves these awards. each year. Well done Sandra! We hope to see you back next year In her first year with Park, Nancy helped 50 of her family and we hope you have fun spending your vouchers and friends save for Christmas, earning her the Top Agent and money! Southern Ireland award. Sandra said: ❝I just love being a Park Agent as it lets me get out and about to collect everybody's money and Well done Nancy – it’s a remarkable achievement! I enjoy having a good chin wag. Nancy said: ❝I could not believe it when you told me I’d won this award. I just enjoy meeting all of my customers and helping them I was so excited as usual to learn that I'd won again save – they were all delighted for me and said that I deserved it. and all of my customers were very pleased for me too. I'm always thankful to receive these awards, even It was lovely to meet and swap stories with other Agents at the though I get a little nervous collecting them! Awards and Thornton Hall was excellent in every way. Collecting my award I was very proud and appreciative of what Park had The awards event was very good, Park has excelled given their Agents. itself once again and made the weekend such a wonderful one. Everything was marvellous and a real From leaving my home in Cork, to the end of the weekend it was a treat. I haven't thought what to do with my winnings yet lovely experience. Thank you to everyone at Park, you were though - possibly a holiday!❞ a joy to meet. I hope to come back next year!❞ Check out our interview with Sandra on page 14 > Read more about Nancy’s first year with Park on page 15 > 6 life life | 7 | Park Park 2011 AGENTS AWARDS 2011 AGENTS AWARDS We gave Encouragement Awards to the Agents in each country who grew their customer numbers and order Award value the most from 2010… Anne Highton from Coventry Encouragement Award England Encouragement Award Scotland Anne Highton really was one of a kind last year, selling the most Debenhams vouchers and giftcards out Kerry Blackett from South Yorkshire Christina Skillen from Fife of all of our Agents across the UK and Ireland! Representatives from Debenhams were delighted to commend Anne for this amazing achievement and present her with a big bunch of vouchers to spend on a fabulous VIP shopping spree at their department store.