Mark Allan Joins Office Club

Dealer Group Office Club has added Mark Allan to its team of Business Development Executive’s.

Business Development Manager Keith Lacey is delighted with the latest recruit announcing: “Mark joins us from Mitsubishi Pencil Company where we had first hand experience of his account handling skills; picking up the award at last year’s Conference for National Account Manager of the Year.”

Mr. Allan brings with him a wealth of industry experience having previously spent 12 years working for wholesaler Vow. “The combination of experience and account handling makes Mark a fantastic asset for Office Club members” continued Mr. Lacey “Based in the south of England his remit is very simple – help members to grow sales and increase profitability; and also to call on other office products suppliers whose business would benefit from Office Club’s support and services.”

Integra appoints a new Head of Business Development

Integra Office Solutions Ltd, the leading dealer group in the UK’s office and IT supplies industry, has appointed Jade Wilson as Head of Business Development to focus on the management and development of its Business Development Team. Jade joined Integra in 2008 as Business Development Manager for Scotland and Ireland having previously been with Stat Plus (Part of OSG) where he was the Sales Manager for Scotland. … Continue Reading

Synaxon UK steps up supplier recruitment drive with appointment of Rupesh Vara as Channel Manager

Synaxon, the leading IT channel dealer group, has made a significant investment in driving additional value for its vendor partners with the appointment of Rupesh Vara to the newly-created role of Channel Manager UK.

A well-known and experienced figure in IT channels, Vara will be primarily responsible for ensuring that vendors receive outstanding value and tangible return on investment from their partnership with Synaxon UK. He will be working with suppliers to ensure that they can take full advantage of the group’s pro-active marketing campaigns to engage with the Synaxon reseller community, drive higher levels of product and brand awareness and generate new business leads. … Continue Reading

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New Ainsworth Commercial Manager

Ainsworth’s, the nascent wholesaler based in East Lancashire, is continuing to develop their team. Simon Webb will be joining on January 4^th 2010 to assume the role of Commercial Manager.

Simon who currently works for Advantia dealer Jespers in Harrogate as Group Purchasing Manager will be responsible for all supplier negotiations, developing the Ainsworth marketing programme, including the next catalogue, and will assist with developing the company’s ecommerce solutions. … Continue Reading

Office Supplies Industry Expert Phil Banner Joins Netstationers

NETSTATIONERS, the Surrey based office supplies company, has recruited former Spicer’s National Account Director, Phil Banner, to oversee the development of their independent dealer partnership programme.

As Netstationers Director of Channel Sales, Phil will play a key role in the recruitment of independent dealer partners, working with them to develop profitable and sustainable businesses under the ever more prominent Netstationers brand. … Continue Reading

Barrie Guy moves from NEC to head up LG’s B2B division

LG Electronics has appointed Barrie Guy as general manager of its new business solutions division. Guy, brings 10 years’ experience in the electronics industry to LG, including roles with Sony and most recently at NEC.

He will in charge of driving LG’s expansion into the B2B market – with a focus on developing existing and creating new relationships with UK-based B2B and corporate resellers.

Guy has told AV he is already actively recruiting experienced pro av people for the rest of his B2B team. … Continue Reading

Spicers appoint John Towler

Spicers has announced that Jon Towler will be joining the company on a part time basis as a Strategic Advisor. Towler was previously Managing Director – Sales at Kingfield Heath, with responsibility for all commercial activities including Marketing and the network of Regional Distribution Centres.

Jon Towler says: “I am very pleased to be joining Spicers at this exciting time in their development. I look forward to helping George and his team ensure that Spicers consolidate their position as the office products wholesaler of choice for dealers across Europe.” … Continue Reading

In Focus – Supplies Team

With four decades of experience, Supplies Team are Yorkshires leading supplier of general office stationery and electronic office supplies. An HP approved partner we stock over 25,000 essential business products (from Sony to Sharpie and everything in between) while providing solutions and competitive pricing to businesses of all sizes.
Whilst we have a national distribution capability, we aim to support local businesses in the Yorkshire Region as we are located in Badford, with our warehouse in Normanton, enabling next day delivery for the majority of our orders.
For Leeds Business Forum members, we can bring your goods to the Friday meetings, if the order is placed with us on the Wednesday before the meeting.
We supply every item of office stationery, office consumables and electronic office supplies from every leading brand and also have our own brand, at a highly competitive prices, coupled with a free next day delivery service for orders over £35.
We want to supply all local business that currently waste time and effort using retail outlets, where prices generally incorporate additional margins to cover retail costs.
At Supplies Team, we benefit from huge economies of scale, being part of a £500m Group, the 7th largest privately owned Company in the UK, and we would like to pass on those benefits, in both cost and time saving to the local business community.
We are a Yorkshire based company with our offices in Bradford, our warehouse in Normanton and Head Office in Sheffield, and want to service all businesses in Yorkshire, where we can add value to your operation. We are big enough to deliver cost efficiency but small enough to care and offer a personalised and account managed service.

Keith Farnell Supplies Team – Sales Director

Contact Supplies Team here

New buying group launched

The brand new Oii Group is expanding its membership through a series of networking events with interested dealers.The current membership stands at 40 resellers, but the group hopes to reach 150 members by early next year.A significant part of the member recruitment initiative includes four upcoming networking events

The events will be held in G Casinos throughout the country on the following dates … Continue Reading