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News Release from: Lightning Packaging Supplies
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 December 2006
Lightning Packaging in TV role
Specialist packaging supplier Lightning Packaging assist Leopard Films with new TV show "My Life for Sale" to be shown on BBC 1.
The team at packaging supplies company Lightning Packaging have traded bubble wrap and cardboard cartons for a taste of TV production, in a new TV show made by Leopard Films The Hatfield-based firm was selected to provide packaging advice for a new lifestyle programme called My Life for Sale to be shown on BBC 1
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 1 Aug 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The show follows families who trade their unwanted items on the internet and use the money that they raise to fund a makeover for their homes.
Declan Hughes of Lightning Packaging says: "The idea behind the show is that every home contains hidden treasures".
"They might be unwanted items, but they are worth real cash." "And of course, they need to reach their buyers in pristine condition".
"That's why the producers approached us to supply a range of reliable packaging materials." Lightning Packaging provided a wide range of packaging items including foam lined boxes for fragile goods, reinforced cardboard cartons, bubble wrap, tape and labels.
The series features Lorne Spicer (Car Booty, Cash In The Attic) and Anna Ryder Richardson (Changing Rooms).
Declan Hughes comments: "We are really pleased to have been involved with the production".
"We serve a broad range of clients, from Automotive to Pharmaceutical, but this is definitely one of our more unusual assignments." Declan says that the team at Lightning have not become too star struck with their encounter with television production".
""None of us are thinking of giving up our day jobs for a role on TV" he says "but it will be very rewarding to see our products featured in the programmes." My Life for Sale is scheduled to be broadcast from early December.
There are 10 programmes in the series.
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