Operationally, we have structured the Group around two broad areas of activity - managed procurement and business critical services. This new structure operates under four trading brands: Banner Business Services and Accord (managed procurement); and AccessPlus and Banner Document Services (business critical services). All are supported by o2o’s integrated supply chain.
Managed Procurement
Banner Business Services
Banner Business Services (BBS) is a market leader in the provision of long term contract management and procurement of office and business products for large private and public sector customers. BBS accounts for around 80% of revenues from the managed procurement segment of our business. It is focused on delivering value to our customers and increasing value to o2o through a number of change programmes.
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Accord
The acquisition of Accord in June 2008 has enabled the integration of our existing mid market activities with it to create a single mid market managed procurement trading brand "Accord". The acquisition broadened our customer base in the mid market sector with immediate savings and improved margins from product range consolidation, the Group’s purchasing power and integrated supply chain.
Business Critical Services
AccessPlus
AccessPlus, which was acquired in May 2008, is the core of our new business critical services activity and provides innovative business communication and print management solutions to organisations seeking to reduce costs and streamline this element of business process outsourcing (BPO). Through an extensive range of integrated services, it delivers ongoing, sustainable cost savings right through the printed document and marketing communications supply chain.
Banner Document Services
Our newly formed partnership, Banner Document Services (BDS), is the Group’s trading brand in the secure document destruction market, a growing and profitable business services market sector. o2o owns 60% of the issued share capital of BDS with the remainder held by Shred Easy, a well established private company operating in the sector.
o2o Integrated Supply Chain
The Group’s integrated supply chain consolidates and leverages the Group’s warehousing, distribution and purchasing activities to procure, pick and pack and nationally distribute over 15,000 office and other business products.
