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Big Interview: Inspiring change
The topic of sustainability may be back around the boardroom table, but it’s not always easy to start on the path to environmental enlightenment. Certification schemes such as those offered by The Planet Mark are one way companies can commit to driving progress towards a better world.
Big Interview Xtra: Gavin Ward, CEO, Office Brands
OPI: When the Office Power group was brought into Office Brands last year, you said that your O-Net members would have got the option of taking up the Office Power branding. How far are...
Big Interview: From little acorn to mighty oak
Büromarkt Böttcher is one of the largest online OP players in the German market, right up there with the biggest and best of them. Most impressively, it continues to post phenomenal growth rates – 23%...
Big Interview Xtra: Jeff Whiteway
OPI: Let’s talk about the demise of the XPD family of dealer groups. You had a very tight relationship with those groups, so what’s your take on what happened?JW: Well, first of all it’s...
Big Interview: Put on the SPOT
It’s only been a couple of years since OPI interviewed Jeff Whiteway, but how times – for him as well as the industry at large – have changed over that period. He’s still in charge...
Big Interview with Michael Brown
It’s been almost five years since Howard and Michael Brown – who had made Allied one of the most successful dealers in the US before selling it to Office Depot in 2006 – returned to...
Big Interview Xtra – Brad O’Brien, Office Choice
OPI: You’re relatively new to the business supplies industry. Was it a bit of a culture shock?Brad O’Brien: Not as much as I thought it might have been. Given the fact that I have...
The Big Interview with Brad O’Brien
This month’s Big Interview takes us ‘down under’ to the Australian market as we speak to Brad O’Brien, CEO of Office Choice, one of the ‘big two’ dealer groups in the country. O’Brien took over from...
Big Interview with Simon Drakeford: Power Player
Simon Drakeford’s entrepreneurial spirit has just been recognised by his industry peers after he collected the Professional of the Year accolade at this year’s European Office Products Awards (see page 27). Not only has he...
Big Interview: Dave Jenkins
Anyone who is familiar with the South African office supplies and stationery industry will know what a traditional place it is, with many of its business leaders having been around for longer than they’d...
Focusing on the essentials
Despite the uncertainties surrounding the office supplies industry, United Stationers’ share price is bucking the trend and is trading at an all-time high.That market confidence is testament to a diversification strategy that began in...
The future is bright…
In the first two-page interview with Ingo Dewitz (see ‘Man of the trade’, European Annual Review 2014), Büroring’s Managing Director alluded to an intensely challenging market in Germany and the need for a multichannel approach. Here,...
Big interview: Jeff Whiteway
When Jeff Whiteway was last featured as the OPI Big Interview, the year was 2005, OfficeTeam – or OyezStraker as it was known at the time – had recently been acquired by a private...
Big interview: Arnold Theuws
Dutch dealer-group-cum-wholesaler Quantore recently put itself on the map by creating one of the most high-tech warehouses in Europe. General Manager Arnold Theuws, who has been at the helm for over three years, is extremely...
