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Category Analysis calendar October Mailroom and packaging MRO and safety November Imaging supplies Back-to-school December/ January Office machines Facilities management February Writing instruments Arts and crafts March Managed print services (MPS) Security and data protection April Breakroom supplies Green products May Paper June Core office products Visual communications July/August Health and wellbeing Furniture September Jan/san Marking and stamping
Document and information security vendor Martin Yale reported double-digit declines in the second quarter. Sales for the quarter fell by 16% to $9 million and the firm made an operating loss of $670,000. The company blamed the drop on a reduction in government spending in European countries along with increased competition globally in all major product lines.
Office machines
Shredder manufacturer HSM relaunched its company web portal in July. The site – which is available in seven languages – is designed to be both a resource for HSM’s reseller partners and for end-users. HSM is working with Commerce Connector in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and the UK, and consumers in these countries can link through to approved resellers directly from the HSM site.
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Paper
Manufacturer Double A has made its first export shipment from its Alizay mill in France. Double A acquired the former Metsä Board mill earlier this year and production began in June. Six containers of paper were shipped out of the port of Le Havre at the end of July bound for Dubai. More shipments out of Alizay to other key Double A markets will soon follow, the company said.
MPS
Xerox had to move quickly in August to respond to an embarrassing issue with the scanning accuracy of some of its co piers. Certain models wh en used in ‘norm al’ mode were found to be randomly altering numbers in scanned docume nts. The issue wa s caused by compression so ftware used in so me of Xerox’s devices. Th e company said it would be developing a so ftware patch to dis able the highest comp ression setting, thereby eliminatin g the possibility of character subs titution.
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