The Creative Workshop has been announced winner of the contract for the 2004 telephone directory, by the Ministry of Information Technology and Communication.

The MITC announcement follows the initial advertisement for tenders for the contract, which appeared in the Nation in March this year, and which attracted three bids.

Having won the tender the Creative Workshop is now looking at a mid-May 2004 publication date for the new directory and is expecting to produce 37,000 copies.

This will be the second consecutive year that the Creative Workshop has won the contract and the company is increasing the number of directories it produces by 2,000, following a short fall last year.

Formed in 2001 the Creative Workshop admitted that a variety of difficulties had resulted in a number of mistakes appearing in the last edition of the phone book.

However, the company has since conducted a thorough audit of it's working practices, aimed at eliminating errors from the forthcoming edition.

Speaking on behalf of the company Ms Jacqueline Poole said that the 2004 phone book would contain pull out sheets for customer feedback and would be followed three months after the launch by a supplement covering any numbers left out of the original copy, such as telephone lines reconnected following the publishing date.

The Seychellois owned and run business will also produce a number of hard back copies which will be available at public call boxes.

While the Creative Workshop will be contacting business establishments over the next couple of months in order to confirm their contact details, the MITC Telecommunications Division is requesting members of the public whose details were incorrect in the previous issue to contact their telecommunications service provider.

The deadline for submitting amendments is November 14.

Located at Beau Sejour, Bel Air, The Creative Workshop can be contacted for information on advertising in the 2004 directory on 225567 or 775303, or emailed at creativeworks@seychelles.net

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