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Office Depot - Tailspinning press releases
Tailspinning
tales of trivia
Depot’s daily dose
of desperate drivel
3 July ‘09 (Updated 1700 UK time; 12 noon ET)
In the last 6 working days, Office Depot investors were treated to a stream of 8 press releases about nothing short of deckchair shifting on the Titanic.
You couldn’t make this up!
UK Services economy growth boost
UK Services
growth boost
New order progress slows…
prices under pressure
2 Jul 09
Hopes that the UK economy is firmly on course to emerge from recession were given a further boost today as a key survey found renewed expansion in the crucial services sector for a second month in a row.
UK manufacturing recovery underway
UK manufacturing
recovery underway
PMI index reinforces hope that worst
of economic slump has passed
1 Jul 09
The pace of decline in UK’s beleaguered manufacturing sector hit its lowest level in May, reinforcing hopes that the worst of the economic slump could have passed.
Stable Synnex starts recovery - Q2'09 Results
Stable Synnex
starts recovery
Q2'09 Results...market
share gains in OP market
1 July 09
SYNNEX the leading IT wholesaler and business process services company, today announced financial results for Q2’09
ODGate Scandal: Conspiring and contradictory Depot
ODgate scandal gets personal
Conspiring and
contradictory Depot Twisting and turning BullSchmidt
counter attacks Whistleblower…
calls him the perpetrator!
28 Jun 09
Last week we received more damning evidence of Office Depot’s Business Solutions Division (BSD) President Steve Schmidt’s desperate and dirty attempts to twist the truth about their systematic and fraudulent overcharging of government contracts.
NIMBLE - The New Economic Megatrend
The New Megatrend that
will shape the OP industry
N i M B L E
New independent Marketers:
Best practice...Low-cost
…Eco-friendly
28 Jun '09 - Updated 0600ET; 1200 UK time
As the Internet was taking shape in the late 1980s, an MIT professor named Tom Malone started thinking about how it could change the structure of industries. In a series of papers, he predicted that the big top-down companies of the 20th century would soon decentralize into industry ecosystems.
How prescient he was, even though it has taken a massive economic meltdown to ignite this megatrend. Here we take Chris Anderson’s lead article, the New New Economy in the June edition of Wired magazine and discuss how these trends will shape the OP marketplace in Editor's Comment
Tuned-in Twitter tops
Follow me on twitter @proficiencypost
Tuned-in Twitter tops
“Brands are about
conversations not messages”
27 Jun 09
When a major US Ice Hockey Stanley Cup broadcast suddenly went black in late April, many Comcast subscribers simply scooted to Twitter to find out why. Will this exciting 2 way medium make impersonal call centers redundant?
SPRichards ABC 2009 Report
SPRichards ABC 2009
The biggest dealer show on the planet
The Power of We
Make the good times roll…
seize the “50% growth” opportunity
27 Jun 09 Updated at 0900CT; 1500 UK time
Over 3000 OP dealers and manufacturer representatives attended SPRichards' 11th Annual Advantage Business Conference in New Orleans, starting last Wednesday through Friday night.
United Stationers - 2010 Marketing Power
Sheer Marketing
Power from United
Twenty 10 guide to creating your brand...
and impacting with the decision makers
27 Jun 09 - Updated 0800; 1400 UK time
United Stationers, the #1 US OP wholesaler, today announced its “2010 Marketing Power” program, designed to provide independent resellers with a three-pronged approach for developing strategic marketing plans for success and growth.
