A joy-replenishing jaunt to the official unveiling of Duplo International's new UK HQ yesterday provided plenty of food for thought.

It's always uplifting to see a successful, growing company reinvesting, and managing to do so despite dealing with the sort of travails that are affecting SMEs up and down the country.

Chairman Robin Greenhalgh noted that the firm's bank of 28 years standing had abruptly decided to halve Duplo's overdraft, a move he described with dry understatement as "a sort of reverse project Merlin".

Despite such hurdles, the ?4m investment in the Addlestone building went ahead as planned, and the Duplo team is justifiably proud of the gleaming new 10,000sqm facility. "At last we have premises to match the brand", says Greenhalgh.

He also proposed an excellent idea, which I'll share with the wider printiverse here. A sort of "pay it forward" for business if you like.

Greenhalgh posits that if firms were able to spend an additional ?1,000 a month on the sort of services that would benefit other UK businesses - it could be redecorating, it could be a new staff kitchen, it could be training, hey, it could even be printing - then the cumulative benefit that would flow through to the wider economy would far outweigh that of any government scheme.

I like it. The "Greenhalgh gain", if you like. Or perhaps "Robin's result". Am sending a note to the Forum of Private Business rightaway.