Secrets of Success

While many businesses were struggling in 2021, Office Peeps, Watertown, South Dakota, was busy setting a company sales record. But the highest-scoring category wasn’t facility maintenance, as one might expect….

These days, hearing of an office products independent dealer preparing to usher in its second generation of leadership is impressive. Hearing of one ushering in its fourth generation is nothing…

When there are five O’Connell brothers, all in the same industry, it is understandable that people might get confused. Yet out of this confusion was born Emerald Business Supply in…

Latsons.com started in Sulphur Springs, Texas, in the 1940s as a newspaper before becoming an independent office supply dealer in the late 1980s. Yet in 2012, when Mike Horne bought…

For Kevin Huguet, president of Office Solutions & Services in Missoula, Montana, the secret of success is community. “Nobody can be the cheapest, but we can be more than competitive…

Rocky Mountain Business Products isn’t worried about Amazon. In fact, president Jay Tittman is enjoying what he calls “out-Amazoning” the tech giant. How does he do it? “With good old-fashioned…

When Ryan Puccinelli and Bryan Freund graduated from the University of Illinois, they knew they wanted to start an office supply franchise someplace warm. They had a friend in Tempe,…

The philosophy behind the formation of Community Office Solutions was very simple from the outset: to create a B2B office supplies company that helped businesses support their local nonprofits by…

For most independent dealers, 2020 was a year that denoted rapid change. It was the same for Kenner, Louisiana-based GBP Direct – but not for the reasons you might think….

Like many family independent dealers, Mark and Sandra Nolan started Nolans Office and Promotional Products—headquartered in San Antonio, Texas—from their kitchen table. Mark had experience working as a manufacturers’ rep…