At Lyreco's presentation of its annual marketing and logistics awards in Sydney earlier this year, 3M was presented with the supplier of the year and best in general office products awards. Other awards included: Best in paper – ...
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Tough trading conditions resulted in around 75 per cent of dealers reporting a sales decline in 2011, according to a survey carried out by Penfold Research. Results of the survey, published as part of the Office Products in Australia ...
Reflex is Australia's best known office products brand, according to a survey conducted as part of Penfold Research's Office Products in Australia 2012-1014 Market Report. "The strongest office products brand in terms of unprompted brand ...
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The value of the core Australian office products market declined by 3.2 per cent in 2011, the worst performance by the industry since the depths of the global financial crisis. The latest research study published by Penfold Research ...
The committee responsible the annual Charity Golf Fun Day has announced a second event for 2012 aimed at the broader office products community - the Australian Office Products Charity Christmas Lunch. The inaugural event will be held in ...
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John Vamos has stepped down as chairman of Office Brands, the umbrella group for Office National, Office Products Depot and O-Net. Office Brands director and director of Paul John Office National, Paul Toohey, will act as interim chairman ...
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3M has dropped its $US550 million takeover of Avery Dennison's office products division after the US Justice Department said it would take legal action if the companies didn't abandon the transaction. The Justice Department said in a ...
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3M's consumer and office products division has reported second quarter sales of US1.1 billion, an increase of 2.3 per cent year-on-year. The maker of Scotch and Post-it brand products said like-for-like sales increased by 3.2 per cent. ...
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Since its foundation in 1966, Humphreys has always been a reseller of office products, looking after both retail and commercial trade within the Manly and northern beaches area. In the late 1990s, founder John Humphrey decided to take the ...
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Jay Mutschler joined Staples in 2008 with the company's acquisition of Corporate Express. Having served as president of Corporate Express (US) he was appointed senior vice president of Staples Advantage, the business-to-business contract ...
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Fuji Xerox Printers has appointed Edwards Dunlop Office Products as an authorised paper distributor for Australia. Edwards Dunlop Office Products is the largest independent paper merchant in Australia and will distribute Fuji Xerox ...
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Lyreco's new online ordering system has been launched as a unique website site for each of Lyreco's markets with a URL consisting of the Lyreco name and the country extension, for example, Lyreco.com.au for Australia. The 'webshop' has a ...
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A New York-based major shareholder in OfficeMax has urged the company to sell-off its Australian and New Zealand divisions so that it can return more cash to investors. In a letter to OfficeMax CEO Ravi Saligram, Neuberger Berman managing ...
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Tweed Office National will change its name to Cloud Office Supplies on 1 July when it makes the move to ASA Australia. Owner Marty Bate told Stationery News that his decision to join ASA was influenced by the guarantee of "independence" ...
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Independent Stationers, the Indianapolis-based office products group with more than 500 locations across the US, has announced its intention to leave global buying group BPGI from 1 January next year. BPGI chairman Claude Ackermann ...
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