#SPOT the
SPOT, the toxic wholesaler/direct reseller mix of Spicers-Officeteam, has been communicating plans on FM supplies, furniture and catalogues recently. They could have been press releases from a golden 1995. Updated
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Reflecting on NeoCon 2015, we were struck by many lifeless preview ads & exhibits. If the goal is to optimize worklife confluence & ergonomics, focus on personal productivity....complete
Amazon's good
Financial Times' business life correspondent Lucy Kellaway discusses the controversy surrounding Amazon's employment practices highlighted by NYT last week...
Are you cost or
In the burgeoning business supply market, many OP makers and dealers are retreating unable to adapt to the new productivity services opportunities, requiring more creativity & specialist investment....
SPLODGE: CEO's
Staples CEO Ron Sargent opined in yesterday's Q2'15 webcast, that the Sysco-USFoods failed food fight with the FTC was a different case to his agreed takeover with Depot. Is he right?
'Not' desking
The latest chapter in the story of the office desking is discussed by the FT's Lucy Kellaway. The evolution from fixed sedentary position of Charles Dickens through to today's sit/stand tables...
Robots create
"In the past, new industries hired far more people than those they put out of business. But this is not true of many of today’s new industries.” says Time magazine. Let's discuss...
AMZN stressed
The New York Times carried copious anecdotes about the culture at Amazon that has left staff fraught and stressed. CEO Jeff Bezos was quick to respond....
The global paper packaging market today is $300Bn and has been growing at a 4.4% annually since 2012. Prospective growth rates in packaging and hygiene markets are expected to continue at similar level...
Business Supply
The management at Staples and Office Depot remain confident the FTC will approve the #SPLODGE trainwreck. Its argument is based on the rhetoric that office supplies is trivial and less important than food supplies?
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