We've got a special offer for you on our Edding drywipe whiteboard markers – buy three boxes for the price of two.
Something you might not know, is that Edding is a German company. Perhaps that explains why the caps and barrels of the Edding drywipe board markers we sell are made from more than 90% recycled material (I think the Germans have been recycling for quite a while, certainly for longer than it's been mainstream in the UK). Edding's whiteboard markers are also 'low-odour', so they shouldn't pong as much as other types of board marker can.
But there are better reasons than that to buy our Edding board markers. Reasons to do with heroism, courage and a made-up story meant to make the afternoon a smidgen more exciting, perhaps not the usual fare that you expect from an office supplies retailer.
Edding the Eagle Edwards, named after the company by his pen-mad father, was the plucky underdog of the 1988 Office Supplies Olympics.
Edding had made it to the final of the office whiteboard competition and had to draw a Venn diagram of the relationship between cheese and pickle in sandwiches a quickly as possible, using his drywipe board markers.
He approached the office whiteboard confidently, took his drywipe red board marker and made one circle. He grasped a purple board marker, drew another circle and then.... disaster. In preparation for picking up the final board marker, he fumbled putting the cap on the purple one. The cap rolled into the crowd.
By the time Edding found the cap, his opponent, the Soviet board marker expert Karan Dashovitch, had finished.
Thus Edding's chance of winning the Office Supplies Olympics had passed. But, if you take advantage of our three boxes for the price of two offer, you could carry the torch, well, the board marker, for Edding's dream.
