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NOTHING

VENTURED,

NOTHING

GAINED

We want you to win one of the prestigious BOSS
Awards this year at our new venue, The Grange

Tower Bridge Hotel. It all takes place on 18 October

ollowing the excellent BOSS Members’ non-members who have embraced this day
FDay at Stationers’ Hall, when we had 95 of as an excellent networking opportunity
the leading Chief Executives in the industry at to meet their peer group in a friendly
our CEOs Conference and Chairman’s Lunch, non-competitive environment. He put such
we at BOSS are now planning ahead for the success down to the five-year contract
industry event of the year, the Boss Awards, between BOSS and the BPIF and said both
which this year will have a new theme and a BOSS and the BPIF were delighted to confirm
new look. We have a fun-packed evening to a new three-year contract from July this year.
look forward to, but this really is your event, Plus we shall shortly be announcing a new
your celebration and your evening. We are industry trends survey called BOSS Outlook.
celebrating all that is best about our industry We will be asking you to fill in an online
and this year we are announcing a new questionnaire in confidence about the state of
award, the BOSS Brand of the Year, which will the industry and we shall feed back to you the
be independently awarded by the Centre for total picture on the industry. Please take the
Brand Excellence. We will be asking all of you time to fill in the questionnaire when it pops
to send your applications in and enter for an up in your inbox.
award. We have some limited sponsorship Here at BOSS we want your views and we
opportunities for those companies who want your comments about how we can
wish to raise their profile in the Industry. help every part of the industry during these
Please contact Helen Dunn or visit difficult economic times. In particular we want
www.bossfederation.co.uk. to reach out to some of the smaller members
And there is more good news. At the BOSS in the industry, the independent dealers, and
AGM on 16 May at Stationers’ Hall we thanked those companies new to the industry.
Philip Beer, Managing Director of Hamelin The office products industry is changing,
Paperbrands, for his two years as Chairman BOSS is changing, and many of our
of the BOSS Federation and welcomed Alan members are going through both economic
Ball, Chief Executive of Spicers as the new and strategic changes. BOSS is a service
Chairman. Alan paid tribute to Philip, and the to the industry and we welcome your
BOSS team for attracting new members with opinions on both the industry and on
the development of new services including BOSS. Please contact me at with your
the new-look BOSS Today and BOSS Today Xtra thoughts. Q
and the excellent event management of the
BOSS Awards evening. He was particularly Michael Gardner
pleased with the new-look Members’ Day, and BOSS CEO
impressed by the number of Chief Executives michael@bossfederation.co.uk
from both member companies and

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