(May 2009) The edding Group has won the prestigious award for ‘Best Group Supplier 2008’ in the General Office Products (GOP) category at the Lyreco Global Supplier Award Event. Lyreco is the largest distributor of office products in the business-to-business sector in Europe. The award covers all aspects of the global relationship between Lyreco and suppliers from marketing support to logistics in all 29 countries where Lyreco sells office products.

Representing the edding Group, Dirk Naeve – Vice President International Sales – proudly accepted the worldwide award: “We consider this award as an excellent and prestigious recommendation from Lyreco. It represents their high appreciation for our both brands edding and Legamaster. And this award is based on facts and hard performance indicators which makes it even more valuable.”

Marc van den Oever, Director International Key Accounts adds to this: “This award is an enormous appreciation and compliment for the continuous support of all our team, most certainly including those in our front offices and our sales partners all over Europe. It’s our clear target now to keep up this performance and to come back in 2010 for this year’s award.”

It was not the first time that the edding Group was crowned Best Group Supplier in the GOP category. Also in 2003 the company has won this award.

edding International GmbH is an international company operating in the fields of marking and writing (edding) and visual communication (Legamaster). The group operates around the world from several locations.