Welcome to this Facilities Management (FM) special of OPI magazine which features expanded content on the increasingly important FM category. These types of specials are going to be a regular occurrence for us going forward as traditional OP resellers come under growing pressure to expand into other product areas – look out for more specials on Education (March), Breakroom (May), Furniture (July) and Jan/san (September) in 2015, as well as our regular supplements on Technology Solutions and Green Thinking.
We’ve also tweaked the magazine layout this month as we – like many publishers – look to find the right balance between printed and online content. So, for example, while this month’s Big Interview may appear shorter than usual, there is a whole lot more available online on opi.net in our Big Interview Xtra – in fact, adding the print and online Big Interview versions together, there is actually about 40% more content than before.
We’ll also be putting other exclusive content online, so don’t forget to make sure that your Digital or Premium OPI membership is up to date. Digital and Premium membership also gives you access to our revamped app – see www.opi.net/app – which provides smartphone and tablet users with another convenient way to access OPI content.
It’s certainly been an ‘interesting’ past 12 months for our industry, no doubt about that, and all signs point to further rapid change and consolidation in 2015. Until then, I wish all of our readers a very happy end to 2014.
