Show Review: Kaut-Bullinger
There are companies that manage to marry the old with the new, the traditional with the modern. Kaut-Bullinger is one of them and nowhere was this more evident than at its customer day (‘Kundentag’ in...
5 Minutes With: Marc Nijhof
Describe what you do in less than 20 words. I am heading up and proudly part of a successful and leading printing consumables distributor covering the European market.What’s the worst job you’ve ever had? A soldier...
Final Word: Liz Moseley
The internet is changing the way we work and play and the change is fast. Did you know that children born in 2015 will not know what a CD is, for example? Today manufacturers sell CDs...
Editor’s Comment
I apologise in advance for making you having to put up with two comments from me this month, but I’m currently wearing two hats as I transition into the Editor’s role. Nothing like a...
A no grow zone
Recent quarterly results have highlighted the struggle OP companies are continuing to face to achieve top-line growth. Office Depot, OfficeMax and, most recently, Staples all reported declines in sales in the second quarter and the...
Elisman seeing green shoots
OPI spoke exclusively with ACCO CEO Boris Elisman following the company’s second quarter results at the end of July. It was a quarter of contrasting fortunes for ACCO’s three reporting divisions – North America, International...
Starboard muscles in on Depot board
In what at times seemed like a saga of soap opera proportions, Office Depot and its main shareholder Starboard finally reached an agreement in their board of directors dispute just hours before Depot’s annual shareholders’...
Category Analysis: Getting Creative
While ‘green’ and antimicrobial products continue to offer room for innovation as well as meeting an established customer demand it is creative design that is adding a renewed sparkle to the stamping and marking category.Indeed...
Category Analysis: Time For Action
For a category that has had the mantle of saviour for a few years now, there are still a good many questions around jan/san and whether office supplies resellers are making the most out of...
Big Read
$15 million raised for City of Hope
The National Business Products Industry (NBPI) has raised another $15 million for City of Hope over the past year.
The 2023 ACCOmplishing Hope fundraising campaign led by...
