Office Brands has added five new independent office supplies dealers to its membership ranks this year, boosting attendance at its forthcoming annual Expo to more than 500 people, including dealers, suppliers and supporters.

Office Brands has engaged with the Benojo platform as a single solution to capture and measure the collective social and charitable activities of their support staff and members.

The finalists have been announced for the 2017 Stationery News Reseller and Supplier of the Year Awards, now in their 17th year.

More than 70 office products resellers have been nominated for this year’s Stationery News Reseller of the Year Awards, now in their 17th year.

A cost-sharing distribution and back-office arrangement between four western Sydney Office Brands dealers is proving to be a successful solution to the costly and time-consuming management of independent warehouses.

Office Brands is to launch its first Initiative branded product as part of its licensing agreement with the UK’s Integra Business Solutions.

Office Brands has appointed former publishing executive and current chairperson of Wests Tigers NRL club Marino Go as non-executive chairperson, effective 1 February.

A joint expo is under consideration as part of a newly-strengthened relationship between Office Brands and New Zealand’s Office Products Depot. While the two groups have had a long-standing association through Office Brands’ licensing of the OPD name, the relationship has moved up a level with a formal alliance to share technology and, in time, marketing and other functions.

Office Brands’ chief information officer Ritsh Patel has been recognised as one of Australia’s leading information technology executives in IDG Communications’ inaugural CIO50 list.