Tag: BPGI
Big Interview: Big plans 2.0
When Quantore Managing Director Arnold Theuws last featured in OPI’s Big Interview in 2014, the company had already become a purchasing and logistics powerhouse thanks to a state-of-the-art warehouse opened in 2009. Now Theuws...
Hot Topic: Boxing clever
In the Final Word in the March 2017 edition of OPI, Mike Gentile, CEO of US dealer group Independent Stationers (IS), called for the independent dealer community (IDC) to find “a new box”, arguing...
Big Interview: Running like clockwork
It’s been ten years since OPI’s Heike Dieckmann interviewed Peter Basci, then CEO of Swiss reseller iba. When Basci sold iba – created by his father Ilo in 1939 – to Swiss giant Migros...
Big Interview Xtra: Craig Bartholomew, CEO, 360 Office Solutions
OPI: There’s much talk about the role and the value of dealer groups in our sector. Pinnacle carved itself a very specific niche and, like you said before, it’s not for everyone. You don’t...