Proficiency Post - breaking news and opinion in the office productivity market by Peter Frost

Manufacturers
mess with press

Cohort OPI wrongly publishes
Spicers’ buying terms request

3 Feb’12

Whatever Spicers’ demands were at their recent supplier presentation day, manufacturers were unwise to publicise details with the puppet press…tomorrow

Imation immersed
in transformation

New security and storage investments not yet countering traditional product slide

3 Feb’12
Imation the former storage media giant, today reported a continuing deterioration in financial results for Q4’11 ended 31 Dec’11...

Read more: Imation Q4'11 Financial Review

HP CEO Meg’s
channel focus

Reassurances about reliability

By Kevin McLaughlin, CRN

3 Feb’12

Hewlett-Packard‘s (HP) new CEO Meg Whitman has raised many doubts about her suitability to run the IT giant and to work through distribution

channels…

Read more: HP CEO Meg's channel focus

Papermakers’
priced-up progress?

UPM report strong sales; IP
today; Stora Enso next week

2 Feb’12

The world’s leading papermakers International Paper (#1), Stora Enso (#2) and UPM Kymmene (#3) report Q4’11 and annual results over the next few days. We review UPM and IP today…

Read more: Papermakers Q4'11 Financial Review

Coffee king
Keurig kills it!

Green Mountain achieves
2x sales, 6x profit performance.
Espresso K-Cups brewing soon?

1 Feb’12

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR), the leader in specialty coffee and coffee brewers for US offices, today announced phenomenal Q1’12 sales results to 24 Dec’11

Read more: Green Mountain Coffee Q1'12 Financial Review

Original brands
o v e r p o w e r
private labels

Manufacturer’s innovation and
marketing outsmart copycats

1 Feb’12 (Complete)

Q4’11 financial results are flooding in for original brand manufacturers and confirm the continuing positive growth trends that emerged in 2011…

S y m a n t e c
secures growth

Storage and Back-up champion
expects  strong demand in 2012

1 Feb’12

Symantec, a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions recently reported results for Q3’12, ended 30 Dec’11

Read more: Symantec Financial Review Q3'12

Arrow’s growth
decelerates…

Tech leader sales top $21Bn;
services driving new growth

1 Feb’12

Arrow Electronics the global provider of technology products and services today reported solid Q4’11 results.

Read more: Arrow Electronics Q4'11 Financial Review

A m a z o n
o n  F I R E !

Supersonic sales of electronics
and business supplies lead drive

31 Dec’12

Amazon.com, the world’s #1 etailer today announced rapid and sustained sales growth for its Q4’11 ended 31 Dec’12. We are running out of superlatives to describe this phenomenon...

Read more: Amazon Q4'11 Financial Review

Plantronics make
sound progress

Unified Communications (UC)
continued to boost sales growth

31 Jan’12

Plantronics, the global leader in audio communications for business, last week reported steady Q3’12 financial results for the period ended 31 Dec’11

Read more: Plantronics Q3'12 Financial Review