A strategic alliance has been revealed between Office Depot UK & Ireland and its namesake in France. Office Depot is now the go-to-market name for OT Group’s B2B offering following the recent decision to retire the OfficeTeam and ZenOffice brands. In France, the Office Depot name was kept alive by several members of the Alkor
Aurelius Equity Opportunities – the former owner of Office Depot Europe – has sold a B2B distribution business to RS Group in a €365 million ($403 million) deal. The transaction involves Distrelec, a joint UK/Switzerland-headquartered distributor of electronic and technical components that was founded in 1973. Employing around 400 staff, it serves some 180,000 customers
Sappi has agreed a deal with Aurelius – the investment group that's also in the process of buying Agfa's Offset business – to sell Sappi's Maastricht Mill in the Netherlands, Stockstadt Mill in Germany, and its Kirkniemi Mill in Finland.