In the current downturn businesses are increasingly looking to keep their costs down, and one of the first and most obvious areas to make cutbacks is in office supplies with the most expensive of these being office furniture. Companies are opting to defer replacing old, worn out furniture products until absolutely necessary. Often a desk many be scratched or starting to get a bit tatty or a steel filing cabinet may be a little stiff to open, but while it functions no business suffering the effects of the biggest recession since World War 2 will be splashing out on unnecessary new furniture.

Unfortunately making do is not always an option. New businesses have no choice but to buy office furniture, and often find buying new is not a lot more expensive that buying used (and you get a guarantee worth the paper it’s written on too). And of course sometimes furniture breaks. Chairs and filing cabinets often fail due to the heavy use they get, particularly if they were poor quality products bought on the cheap.

One company is aiming to tailor its furniture to the new breed of more prudent businesses that are emerging from the ashes of this recession. That company is Inter County Office Furniture.

Inter County have been known in the past for producing medium range furniture products, better than some of the tat sold on cheap office furniture sites and on EBay, but not too upmarket either. The presumption being that most buyers would like to strike a balance between quality and cost. This ethos is what has kept the business going for more than a quarter of a century.

Their latest offering epitomises this. They’ve released a set of filing cabinets built to meet BS standards, yet coming in at well under £100 before VAT. Don’t be confused, these are not the cheap imports seen on auction sites, these are UK made filers and they’re made to last as demonstrated by the whopping 8-year guarantee that comes with them (the more upmarket ones come with even longer guarantees, up to 15 years!).

So if you want to buy smart and get the best office furniture make sure you pop onto Inter County’s site today at www.intercounty.com.