USA
Media Sciences International (MSI), a manufacturer of colour toner cartridges, has appointed Tadahiro Kaneko as director of toner development. He has joined MSI from Ricoh Printing Systems America. Oakland (NJ)
ActionEmco has appointed Mike Maggio as president and chief operating officer. He has served ActionEmco as SVP of sales and operations since 2004. North Bergen (NJ)
Bell Microproducts, a network storage company, has named Ingram Micro’s president, Michael Grainger, as a company director. He will also serve on Bell’s audit committee. San Jose (CA)
Marvin Cooper has resigned from Weyerhaeuser’s management team to focus on his new role as chief operating officer of the company’s fine paper products division. Cooper had been serving the firm as SVP for the cellulose fibre and white paper, containerboard manufacturing and engineering unit. Federal Way (WA)
The National Office Products Alliance (NOPA) has named R Michael Ochs as director of government affairs. Ochs is a senior government and public affairs executive and has previously represented members of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education. Alexandria (VA)
Rick Olszewski, formerly VP of Avery Dennison’s Fasson Roll division, has joined Nashville-based Louisiana-Pacific, a manufacturer of building products. He will serve as EVP of specialty products and sales and marketing. Nashville (TN)
Europe
Alternative Business Solutions (ABS), an e-trading solutions provider, has promoted Natalie Dry to lead analyst for its OP division. Dry has been serving the company as integration developer for its business unit. She will now head up the technical side of ABS’s OP platform. Oxford (UK)
Tracey Pearce, a director of Masters Group, has won the European Account Manager of the Year award at Office Depot’s merchandising conference. London (UK)
Ingram Micro Europe has appointed Alexandra Nagels as VP of human resources and services for Europe. Her predecessor Lynn Jolliffe has transferred her role to VP of human resources for Ingram Micro North America. Brussels (BEL)
Eileen Ward has been appointed as a director of Stewart Superior Europe. Managing director Geoffrey Betts said: "Eileen is doing an outstanding job for the company and this new position reflects the responsibility and respect in which she is held both by colleagues and customers alike." Middlesex (UK)
John Barnes, national business director at Antalis, is leaving the company in December to pursue a new career. Bruce Munro, who heads up Antalis’ regional sales and specialist businesses, has been appointed UK sales director and will take over the responsibilities of Barnes. Birmingham (UK)
Fellowes Europe has named Peter Dibben as European key account manager. Before joining Fellowes, Dibben had most recently been serving as European business manager at ACCO. Breda (NL)
Canon UK has promoted Adam Poole to head of channel marketing. Poole has been with the company since 1998. He joined the firm as direct channel marketing executive and has since served as marketing communications manager and head of professional marketing. Surrey (UK)
Global
IBM has transferred chief procurement officer John Paterson from the firm’s office in New York to its office in Shenzhen. Shenzhen (CHN)
Office National’s board of directors has appointed Brian Johnston as CEO. He previously served as CEO of the St George Illawarra football club. Sydney (AUS)
ACCO Brands has named Andreas Krüger as regional sales director for its Eastern European and Russian region. Maria Nesterova has been appointed sales and marketing director for the Moscow office. Moscow (RUS)
Location
Domtar is to cease production at four sawmills indefinitely. The closures of the mills in Quebec and Ontario have been attributed to high timber costs and low demand for lumber and wood chips and will affect 950 employees. Vancouver (CAN)
Georgia-Pacific has agreed to sell six paper mills to Oregon-based Roseburg Forest Products. The six industrial wood products mills being sold are located in Mississippi, South Carolina and Georgia.Vienna (GA)
SanDisk has announced new distribution relationships with Ingram Micro and Rashi Peripherals, one of India’s largest IT distributors, to sell SanDisk products throughout the country. SanDisk products will initially be available in 2,000 stores, but will be obtainable in more than 14,000 stores by the end of 2007. New Delhi (IND)
Staples is to begin construction of a new 20,400 sq ft store in Loveland, Colorado. The store will be the company’s fourth in Colorado and is due to open its doors next March. Framingham (MA)
