To meet the demands of designers and specifiers, Focus SB has launched an app for Google Android and Apple’s iPhone that enables users to find a lighting plate to perfectly match the décor of any room in a home, hotel or ...
Tags: Smartphone App News, lighting industry news, Focus SB, Google Android
The online marketplace quelle.de with assortments from external brands and retailers undergoes a strategic re-organisation. Modelling the successful example of Quelle in Austria, Switzerland and Russia, quelle.de reboots as an attractive ...
Tags: online marketplace, brand-name electronics goods, home-furnishing goods
The South Australian government's decision to direct schools to buy stationery and office products from Corporate Express (now known as Staples) and Office Max has created a "life threatening" situation for the state's 400 newsagencies ...
ACCO's acquisition of Mead's Consumer & Office Products business in the US has been finalised. "We are also significantly diversifying our global footprint," said ACCO CEO Bob Keller. "Our new colleagues from the Mead business bring ...
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Alternative Apparel, the industry-leading fashion basics brand known for its unparalleled comfort and quality craftsmanship, is pleased to appoint Erik Joule as President and Chief Merchandising Officer. Joule will be based out of the ...
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Brisbane-based Paper Handling Equipment is asking the office products industry to support Variety - The Children's Charity via a special bonus offer during October. Orders above a set dollar value placed by Office Brands members with PHE ...
Corporate Express has set its sights on the mid-market as it transitions to the Staples brand under the leadership of Australia/New Zealand president Jay Mutschler. Mutschler told Stationery News that Staples/Corporate Express did not ...
Tags: corporate, express, Mid-Market, Staples brand
Strong sales in the back-to-school and back-to-work period helped Officeworks to lift sales in the third quarter to $415 million, an increase of 2.5 per cent over the previous corresponding period. Wesfarmers managing director of home ...
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US based property and casualty underwriter Tower Group has announced sale of its health insurance business for $102m to Australian private health insurer NIB Holdings. Subject to clearance from the Overseas Investment Office, the sale is ...
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Officeworks is feeling the impact of "challenging" trading conditions with a meagre 0.3 per cent increase in sales in the first quarter. Total sales for the quarter were $362 million, up from $361 million reported for the previous ...
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Williamsville-based Stahlka Agency has acquired Western New York practice of Historic Square Insurance Agency and following the acquisition, Stahlka's existing Orchard Park office will be merged with Historic Square's office in Orchard ...
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UK office products group Spicers has downplayed its role in setting up an online shop on Amazon. Ernie's Office Supplies is an Amazon Marketplace vendor that does not hide the fact that the webshop is operated by Spicers, but describes ...
Tags: shop on Amazon, Spicers, Amazon's Stationery
Newcastle's Sharp Electronics Group has celebrated its 40th anniversary with an eight-page advertising feature in the Newcastle Herald. Sharp Electronics, the number two Sharp photocopier dealer in Australia, was founded by current ...
Tags: Sharp, Service, printer, office products
Union Minister for Commerce, industry and Textiles Shri Anand Sharma has held a review meeting for early commencement of minimum support price operations to stabilize cotton prices which have witnessed a sharp decline and are operating ...
Tags: cotton price, cotton market, cotton industry, staple cotton
Second edition of Milano Unica Cina closed in Shanghai. It was organized in collaboration with ICE, the Italian Agency for Foreign Trade, which promotes the internationalization of Italian businesses, and held in the context of ...
Tags: Foreign Trade, textile trade fair