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BOSS investigates how OP dealers can get the most

from the e-commerce opportunity.

ven without the of a global trend in which that, to meet the extraordinary few OP dealers in this unhappy
many stern messages worldwide online retail sales rise of Amazon – and others – in position: as MWA’s research
Epassionately delivered have increased 17% yearly since our market place, OP dealers has found, the vast majority
at the recent BOSS ‘Future Of 2007. must embrace e-commerce of UK OP dealers now claim to
The Industry’ conference (see In our own industry, many as a priority. Indeed, as Tesco’s be operating an e-commerce
page 6), there is no doubt that observers agree that well over Angela Anderson and Mark enabled web site. Many of these
e-commerce is very much half of all office products (OP) Monte-Colombo pointed out are ‘off the shelf’ e-commerce
the order of the day, and with orders are now being taken at the BOSS Conference “If you solutions (such as Evolution,
the highest share of online online. Furthermore, as the are thinking of going online in Blue Sky’s Horizon Web and
retailing in the world (according recent MWA/OPI “Swimming future, you are already behind ECI’s Easyorder), and of course
to UK government sources), With Piranha” research report the times!” there are systems provided by
the UK is at the vanguard shows (see page 22), it is clear Mercifully, there appear to be the OP wholesalers and some

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