Jon Seal from technologywithin summarized Green Street’s (infuriatingly email-gated) report that UK-based flex workspace brokerage Officio has engaged consultancy firm Deloitte to float a potential sale for the firm.

The news has not been confirmed by either parties, and we dislike sharing any form of gated content, but it does point to consolidation trends in the industry as it matures. Also makes us wonder what ripples this will cause across Rubberdesk, Instant/Worka, Office Freedom, Hubble/Yardi and the likes of C&W, CBRE, JLL who are all diving deep into flex.

Florian Kappes shares an interesting post from German brand Satellite Office, who are selling apparel with their flex brand’s logo on it. We’ve seen many brands dive deep into offering branded merchandise to their members, mostly giving it away.

Are there coworking brands with strong enough communities they can sell hats, tees, hoodies and mugs with their logos on? Yes. Have they? Have you?

Flexible workspace technology provider technologywithin added two new products to its twiinworkspace platform.

The first being twiinmeet, tablets mounted outside meeting rooms that provide live room status, on-the-spot booking, and meeting details to eliminate overlaps and reduce admin burdens. The company also introduced twiinconcierge to automate the check-in process for members and visitors, automatically notifying members of guest arrivals while helping operators manage front-of-house staffing, parking allocation, guest flow, and incoming/outgoing deliveries.

Emilie Lashmar shared a thorough recap of GCUC UK’s last Manchester event, which she co-hosted with Georgia-Kaye Berry (from Colony).

The recap runs over the data shared by Jordan Saleh (CBRE), Ryan Jans (WeWork), and Tanya Grady (Allied London); what makes a workspace stand out by Nicola Jones (GPE), Lucy Pickavance (Phoenix Resourcing), Ana Bernardo (Work.Life), and Ben Newton (Patch); some indie-vs-big-pocket insights from Lisa Cations (JCR Advisors), Shannon Burke (managed.), Tom Almas (Wizu), Rebekah Lloyd-Beere (Landsec), and Gareth I. Jones (TownSq). Alongside workshops led by Samuel Warren (technologywithin), Manuel Conti (PONT), Claire Carpenter and George Tilbury; Lisa Quait ran the Women in Flex Luncheon. The event was then rounded out with sessions from Nicholas Drew (urbanbubble) and Sammy Dukes (Yardi) on operational intelligence and Pauline Roussel (Coworkies) and Jonathan O’Byrne on community.

Why did we highlight all the speakers above? To elevate the (many new) voices who took the stage in Manchester.

Announced at GCUC UK, OfficeRND has a new partnership with technologywithin.

This integration allows operators to easily manage internet connectivity, bandwidth, and user access on the twiindata platform, directly through the space management platform.