Tag: Express
Big Interview: The full (Canadian) package
Denis Mathieu, President of Novexco, is a man on a mission. Having arrived at the Canadian multichannel operator when his predecessor Robert de Montigny retired in 2016, he set to work with plenty of...
5 mins with… Jolanda de Vries
What’s your life philosophy? Be curious and positive. What do you do in your spare time? Cooking, sports, and spending as much time as I can with family and friends. Optimist or pessimist? Definitively optimist. For me the glass...
Category Update: Power of the pen
Speak to some of the biggest players in the writing instruments sector about the current state of the market and you get a very mixed response.Pentel UK reports a positive annual performance, with a...
Spotlight: Workplace 4.0
Offering solutions rather than just products is increasingly the name of the game in today’s business supplies industry. Germany’s independent reseller Kaut-Bullinger has taken the concept to a new level, calling it ‘Workplace 4.0...
Analysis: All hands to the pump
You would be forgiven for wondering what the connection is between the approval of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) – the $700 billion budget for the US Department of Defense’s (DoD) spending...
Analysis: Thinking outside the (big) box
In the past few weeks, Office Depot in the US has made two significant acquisitions which give pointers to its strategic direction – and they have come as something of a surprise.With industry speculation...
Special Feature: Top 100 2017
When we started collating this year’s Top 100 resellers list, it struck me that relatively few big hitters have come out since 2016 – Essendant’s Bob Aiken, SP Richards’ Wayne Beacham and Office Depot’s...
Active Working Summit Xtra
The Active Working Summit that took place in April 2017 in London, UK, offered expert opinion from some of the world’s top lecturers, researchers and thinkers on ergonomics and health and wellness in the...
Spotlight: A time of change in Australia
The Australian office products market finds itself in the unusual situation of having its three largest resellers – Officeworks, Staples and OfficeMax – up for sale at the same time. Private equity (PE) group...
