Latest Special Offers on stationery and office products

The best deals on stationery and office products are listed on the special offers section of www.theofficesuppliessupermarket.com website.

Currently they're doing
- Free 4gb Pink USB memory stick when you spend £75
- 15% discount on all orders over £125
- Free chcocolate with orders as small as £20, more at £40 spend and a box full when you spend £80

From 21st June for a limited period they're giving away free sticky notes (the yellow postit like pads) with orders over £20 and they currently have the cheapest priced A4 copier paper in the country.

Have a look at their website and choose the promotional code that works for you and pass them all on to your colleagues, contacts and friends!

Cheaper Printer Ink Online

In a recent survey of where to buy cheaper printer ink TheOfficeSuppliesSupermarket was cheaper on 1,760 different printer ink products than the market leading provider of stationery and office products.

Examples of the cost savings available on their easy to use website are:

838451 HP No 339 InkCart 21ml Black C8767EE#ABB £17.69 Saving you 19%
559659 HP Ink Cartridge Black C6656AE#ABB £12.79 Saving you £2
366676 HP Deskjet 850C Inkcart Black 51645AE#ABB £19.41 Saving you 14%
610020 HP Ink System For HP2000C Black C4844A £20.77 Saving you £5.22
204814 Integral Courier USB Drive 4GBINFD4GBCOU £8.99 Saving you 18%
208590 Canon Inkjet Cartridge Colour CL-410617B001 £14.79 Saving you 10%
843658 Brother LC1100 BK Inkjet Cartridge Black £12.65 Saving you 6%

Not only can you save more on your printer ink at the office supplies supermarket.com but there's also great savings and brilliant service across the whole range of 20,000 stationery and business supply products.

Best price on A4 copier paper

The cost prices on A4 copier paper are very volatile at the moment with a very very strong upward trend.

But, at the time of typing, the cheapest price in the UK seems to be A4 copier paper for £1.60 per ream - that's a proper sized 500 sheet ream of 80 gsm (grams per square metre) not one of those sneaky 100 sheet packs that Rymans Stationery do at £1 (pro rata that's £5.00 per ream!)

The Office Products Industry - a brief history

Stationery and Office Supplies in the UK is a fascinating business – not only does it supply excellent products which we all use on a daily basis but the speed of development of new ideas to improve your office efficiency is as amazing as the wonderful people who work in it.

The corporate side of the business is pretty exciting too – here’s a brief summary of the activity in the industry in the last 19 years:

Year Events
1991 First Issue of Office Products International Magazine
1992 Viking Stationery enters France; Staples launches in Germany
1993 Staples opens first UK store; Office Depot enters contract stationery Business
1994 Mark Baccash Launches Office 1 franchise operation, UK Office Products Dealer Group “Superstat” launched
1995 CE buys Australia’s number one dealer; Office Products International hosts first conference in Palm Springs
1996 Office Depot’s merger with Staples is aborted; Guilbert acquires W H Smith’s BSD
1997 Newall buys Rubbermaid; Dave Guernsey Creates BPGI
1998 USOP restructures; Staples buys Quill; Depot buys Viking; UK Office Products Dealer Group Superstat creates new “OfficeBiz” division
1999 Buhrmann buys CE; Office products wholesaler John Heath sold to Kingfield
Opi.net launched
2000 Bruce Nelson takes over as Office Depot chief replacing Dave Fuente
2001 USOP files for chapter 11; Lyreco opens in Japan; UK Office products wholesaler Spicers buys Plein Ciel
2002 Wall Marts office products sales reach $4.7 billion; Ampad files for Chapter 11
2003 Boise buys OfficeMax; Office Depot acquires Guilbert; Daisytek files for Chapter 11
2004 Bruce Nelson leaves Office Depot; Staples buys Hartford Office Supply and enters China
2005 Lyreco swoops for Ahrend; Staples buys Prime; Office Depot drops Viking in the USA
2006 Office Depot buys Allied Office Products; Burhmann enters Scandinavia through ATG
2007 Office Products wholesaler Kingfield Heath completes deal with ISA; Officeworks join Wesfarmers; UK Office Products dealer Group “Superstat” launches new division “Praxis” for office product dealers aligned to the stationery wholesaler VOW
2008 Staples buys CE
2009 UK office products wholesaler Vasanta is rescued from the verge of collapse; Superstat launches theSupermarketonline.com programme – a suite of ten niche office products ecommerce websites in the UK
2010 Eric Bigeard announces his departure from Lyreco; Sam Duncan plans to retire from Office Max; TheOfficeSuppliesSupermarket.com starts trading and quickly processes 1,000th office products orders