AHI tuned up for
Texas takeaway

Inside story on how new $50m
mini-group defeated Depot

30 Aug 10 (Complete)
Last Tuesday, we met with Mark Nolanthe dynamic chief of Nolans Office Products based in San Antonio; and leader of the AHI Enterprises which has just won the much prized $30m Texas office supply contract….

Double dealing
Depot’s deceit

Wants cake-and-eat-it with
San Diego and US Communities

30 Aug 10

While Office Depot is promoting their renewed partnership with TCPN on the one hand, it is negotiating with San Diego County (CA)and National IPA for a national co-operative on the other?

Proficiency Profile

Clarity gives

UKOD the lead

New membership approach
the key to etailing success

24 Aug 10
We’ve only spoken on the telephone to Mike Griffin,the founder of UK Office Direct a few times, but we feel we understand what has made this fast rising etailer one of the best rated in the OP world….

Florida flunk

integrity test

Depot 7 year monopoly broken

...AOPD dealer to share contract

13 Aug 10

TheFlorida Department of Management Services has recommended the much-investigated Office Depot plus Staples and an AOPD reseller be awarded the $42 million annual contract in office and school supplies. This is a good news, bad news story...

ODgate Scandal

Unethical, 

fraudulent,
now racist?

Depot accused over delays in settling overcharges with Detroit Public Schools

12 Aug 10

Office Depot whistleblower David Sherwin has accused Depot of a new and insidious form or racism towards the Detroit Public School System.

ODgate Scandal News Alert!

Will Depot finagle
Florida contract?

Whistleblower ‘s take on the
imminent $42m award scenarios

11 Aug 10
Florida Stateposts it intent to award its $42m office & school supply contract tomorrow Thursday 12^th August, with the final award document delivered on the 19^th August.

ODgate Scandal Latest

Depot defrauds
state by $1.2m*

Washington auditor reports
blatant systematic overcharging

10 Aug 10
Another State, another scam for Office Depot. Washington is the latest to investigate the flagrantly fraudulent overcharging of the desperately declining #2 bigbox reseller. Washington represents only 2% of the US population. By the time all states are totted up, overcharges could reach an annual rate of $60 million!

2010 Office User Survey

What women
want in business?

“I love office products... my favourite webstore is… it’s lighter and brighter … I want human touch… I want an easier search… I want video demos”

Xerox Burns
pathway to
the future

Driving office productivity with
document management services

6 Aug 10
Talk about bold. Just weeks after taking over as Xerox's CEO last July, Ursula Burns announced the biggest deal in the company's history: the $6.4 billion acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services, an outsourcing firm most people had never heard of. Xerox needed dramatic action….

Q2’10 Financial Review

Papermakers
on a roll

Powered by price increases

 4 Aug  10

We have started the review of results of leading papermakers, International Paper, Stora Ensoand now UPM Kymmene has arrived. Growth and profitability has returned strongly…

Proficiency Index
First Annual Webstore Review
Survey #3 resumes...

Trio of resellers...

highly rated 70%+ 

Open 24/7 - Your #1 priority

Today, theProficiency Indexteam resumes and reports on Survey #3 of the immensely popular review of UK/US resellers’ webstores.

In the US we analyse: Give Something Back, Guernsey OP; Phillips Group; S&T Office; and Warden's. In Canada: Beatties Basics. In the UK: Caboodle;  Excel Office; Irongate/OfficeThingy; andPaperstone.