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president of the office products division of Phillips Office Solutions
Dauphin County-based office supply firm Phillips Office Products Inc., doing business as The Phillips Group, recently changed its name to Phillips Office Solutions. The company began in 1940 and today has six offices and 200 employees. Corporate headquarters is in Lower Swatara Township.
Q: tell me about Phillips office solutions.
A: We operate as three divisions: office products, contract furniture and document management.
The document management includes copiers and printers and a lot of services involved with that.
Contract furniture is primarily focused on project-oriented furniture jobs.
The office products (division) is anything having to do with general office supplies; it's everything that's not included in the other two categories. We have coffee service, promotional products and janitorial products in addition to the normal copy paper and toner supplies.
We're primarily focused in Central and southeastern Pennsylvania; we do also get into the state of Maryland. Our geographical area kind of runs from Hagerstown, Md., to Baltimore, up to West Chester, Pa., and as far north as Sunbury.
since the economy hasn't been great, have you seen companies still purchasing new or upgrading office supplies, or merely maintaining supplies that need repairs?
We've seen a couple of effects: No. 1 is that whenever the economy has tightened up, everybody is very cost-conscious. Office supplies are an area that (businesses) look at to reduce costs. There's a lot more priceshopping in the marketplace today than ever before.
The other angle is the fewer people that are working, the less those...