We are pleased to confirm that NXP Limited (NXP) has acquired the NZ Office Supplies (NZOS) business effective the 18th May 2020. NZ Office Supplies has 34 staff and more than 2,000 customers around New Zealand.
Stationery distributor New Zealand Office Supplies has been acquired for an undisclosed sum.
The Administrators and NXP, the country’s largest supplier of business supplies and cleaning products to the corporate and government sectors, came to an agreement for the business to change hands overnight.
More than thirty jobs at a nationwide, office supplies firm have been saved thanks to an overnight agreement with the administrator which will see it placed under new ownership.
National Express Products (NXP) has started urgent delivery of supply packs to the thousands of NZ employees forced to work from home under the Level 4 lock-down.
More than 50,000 bottles of hand sanitiser donated by NXP and an additional 50,000 donated by the Ministry of Education are being urgently delivered to schools throughout the country, ahead of their opening on Wednesday.
Millions of masks and gloves for Kiwi front-line workers have arrived in Auckland after being protected by armed guard. Joe Taylor, CEO of National Express Products, said the guard was necessary because of “questionable tactics” used by some countries to secure PPE.
Armed guards have been used to protect a shipment of New Zealand-bound personal protective equipment leaving China, the scramble for PPE being described as “the Wild West”.
While the level 4 lock down is in place Police, Fire and Emergency Services are still working. They need the protection of PPE and hand sanitiser. This is where NXP comes in.
Gull is diverting 50,000 litres of ethanol to be used in hand sanitiser production to meet urgent demand from healthcare and emergency services.
