5th Time GBC Dealer of the Year

In recognition of outstanding sales for 2007, Factory Express, Inc, a leading supplier of office equipment in the U.S. and abroad, has received the GBC Dealer of the Year Award. This prestigious honor has been awarded to Factory Express for the fifth time due to outstanding sales both domestically and abroad. Factory Express is one of the largest GBC dealers in the nation and represents the full line of GBC Binding Machines, Laminators, Binding Supplies, Roll Film, Laminating Pouches, Paper Shredders and Presentation Products.

John Golde, Vice President of the GBC Dealer Group presented the award to Factory Express President Marcie Rackow. Vice President John Golde said: “We at GBC are pleased to announce that Factory Express Inc. of Albuquerque has achieved the dealer of the year award for our Double Diamond category. ” Factory Express Inc. is a full line dealer covering the state of New Mexico for both sales and service of GBC products. In addition to a local sales force targeting the Southwest, Factory Express has a large client base stretching across the United States, Canada. and beyond.  They supply a wide range of companies; from Fortune 500 companies to home based businesses with their document finishing and protection needs.

Regarding the award President Marcie Rackow said, “We are honored to receive this award. It is a real testament to the dedication of our team here at Factory Express. We have had another record year thanks to our commitment to high quality service and unbeatable pricing. We are very pleased once again to see that our year of dedication to our customers has been recognized by GBC.”

GBC has presented numerous awards to Factory Express for various growth and sales performance records. This is the fifth year when such an award has been given. Other years of exceptional achievement include 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2006. GBC® is the largest supplier and manufacturer of binding equipment and supplies in the world and has a reputation for quality that is surpassed by no other.

About Factory Express:
Factory Express was founded in the Albuquerque, New Mexico area in 1995 and has since become one of the fastest growing Internet distributors of business machines and supplies. Operating as http://www.factory-express.com/, Factory Express is dedicated to providing its customers worldwide with high quality equipment at low prices, and a steadfast commitment to absolute customer satisfaction.

About GBC:
GBC, an ACCO Brands company, is a world leader in the binding, laminating and display equipment industry with over 50 years of experience. GBC is an innovative technology leader in lamination films and binding solutions for the commercial and digital print market. Other ACCO Brands companies include Swingline, Kensington, Wilson Jones, Quartet, GBC and Day-Timer among others.

GBC® ProClick® Pronto™ Automated Binding Machine Generates Professional, Editable Bound Documents In A Snap!

For some companies, the art of creating business presentations involves countless hours of research, strategizing and brainstorming, which is almost always followed by a frantic, last-second, mad-dash to actually assemble the document hard-copies and shove them out the door. The scenario is so common, it’s almost like an office ritual.But GBC, the leader in document finishing for more than 50 years, has a revolutionary new solution to help eliminate those late nights of harried document assembly with the introduction of a new product – the ProClick® Pronto™ P3000. The ProClick Pronto P3000 is the world’s first desktop automatic binding machine that punches, measures and fits documents with a professional binder spine that gives presentations a professional finish never before offered.

“In developing the ProClick Pronto P3000, GBC has created a totally unique solution to an age-old problem – how to quickly produce bound presentations that stand out from the rest of the business world clutter,” said Jim Brodecki, senior category manager, ACCO Brands. “The ProClick Pronto does all of those things, and it makes them simple to do, which has never been the case with other types of binding equipment.”

At roughly the size of a fax machine or color printer, the ProClick Pronto P3000 can be incorporated into nearly any workspace, and it’s simple enough to operate that anyone can begin using it to help assemble their next project immediately, without any training.

For the first time, creating a professionally bound document is as easy as pushing a button. The ProClick Pronto P3000 automatically punches holes in the paper and then automatically secures it with a contemporary-looking ProClick zip spine.

The unique ProClick spines do more than enhance the look and feel of your presentations over standard comb or wire spines, they also improve the readability of documents by allowing pages to rotate a full 360 degrees and lay flat when opened.

But, how many times have you created a bound presentation only to find an error on “page 17″ that had to be fixed. With a standard lever-operated document binder, you would have to completely tear open the presentation, discard the spine, find a replacement and then laboriously re-install it, wasting precious time and resources to make a single edit to your presentation.

Now, with the ProClick zip spine, presentations may be re-opened at any point within the document with a simple swipe of the ProClick zip tool. Once the spine has been opened, the appropriate page may be removed and replaced. Then a final swipe of the ProClick zip tool completely re-seals the document spine. For the first time, the process of editing a bound document literally takes just a few seconds.

With the ProClick Pronto P3000 the entire document binding process takes just a fraction of the time and effort previously required, saving office employees valuable time and resources the next time a large batch of business presentations is called for.

For more information about the ProClick Pronto P3000, go to http://www.factory-express.com/Binding_Machines/ProClickBinders/gbc/proclick_p3000.html.

About GBC and ACCO Brands Corporation

GBC has been the market leader in binding and lamination for over fifty years. With a complete line of binding and laminating machines and supplies, GBC helps consumers present, protect and preserve. To learn more, visit www.acco.com/GBC .

ACCO Brands Corporation (NYSE:ABD) is a world leader in branded office products, with annual revenues of nearly $2 billion. Its industry-leading brands include Day-Timer®, Swingline®, Kensington®, Quartet®, GBC, Rexel®, and Wilson Jones®, among others. Under the GBC® brand, the company is also a leader in the professional print finishing market.

Banner American Products Introduces New ValueLam 4500 Laminating/Mounting Machine

New ValueLam 4500 Laminating/Mounting Machine Operates on 120 volt.

Banner American Products, Inc. is proud to introduce its new ValueLam 4500 Laminating/Mounting machine. The introduction of this value priced laminator provides large-format imaging services the capability of mounting, laminating and encapsulating output from 36”, 42” and 44” inkjet printers. Affordable and functional, the ValueLam 4500 is loaded with features important in producing the highest level of results for each and every project. The ValueLam 4500 laminating/mounting machine offers carefully designed features intended to facilitate a profitable finishing service without the added expense of more advanced machines. The easy-to-use design makes the operator’s job simpler with features such as: top and bottom heat, electronic heat control with LCD readout, variable speed, forward/reverse switch, 3” (7.62cm) diameter silicone heated rollers, clear polycarbonate safety shield, emergency stops on both sides of machine, and mounting capability up to ¼” (6.4mm).

According to Alan Parkhill, Banner American Products, Inc., “In addition to the ValueLam 4500’s extremely competitive price, the laminator will operate on a 120 volt electrical circuit. This can save an additional $500-$1500 in setting up a dedicated 220 volt line.”

Fellowes, Inc. Receives 2007 Chicago Innovation Award

Fellowes, Inc. was recently named a recipient of the 2007 Chicago Innovation Award for its Powershred DS1 personal shredder that provides best-in-class safety features and superior performance. The award was presented to the company on Monday, Oct. 22 at a private ceremony held at the Goodman Theatre in downtown Chicago.

“We are honored to be recognized as a leading innovator in the Chicagoland-area,” said Nancy Heaton, senior global marketing manager for Fellowes, Inc. “This award marks our strong commitment to safety, which has always been a top priority for our company. The DS1 personal shredder is a true testament of our dedication to continuously enhancing our products to have the safest features possible.”

This year marks the sixth annual Chicago Innovation Awards competition, which was co-founded in 2002 by Kuczmarski & Associates and the Chicago Sun-Times, and is designed to honor significant innovations introduced by Chicago-area companies.

Award nominees were judged based on the success of products and services introduced between May 2006 and July 2007 that uniquely satisfied unmet needs in the marketplace. The Fellowes Powershred DS1 personal shredder was one of 10 winners, chosen from nearly 250 nominees.

The Powershred DS1 features patented SafeSense™ technology that protects the safety of the user, including children and larger pets, by automatically disabling the shredder when sensing hands or pets are too close to the paper entry. An electronic sensor surrounds the shredder’s paper entry and shuts down the machine immediately when it comes in contact with the energy field created by humans and large pets. The cross-cut machine also shreds 11 sheets of paper per pass, along with staples, paper clips and credit cards.

After its launch in August 2005, the Powershred DS1 quickly became Fellowes’ best-selling personal shredder, outselling Fellowes other personal shredders by more than 50 percent. Due to the DS1’s success, Fellowes has gone on to add its SafeSense technology into nine additional shredder models and plans to roll out seven new models in 2008.

About Fellowes
Headquartered in Itasca, Ill., Fellowes, Inc. offers an impressive range of products to equip the workspace, including paper shredders, binders and laminators, desktop accessories and record storage solutions. Fellowes, Inc. owns and operates subsidiaries in Canada, United Kingdom, Benelux, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Singapore, Japan, Korea, China and Australia, the company employs more than 2,700 people throughout the world and expects global sales in excess of $700 million this year.

About the Chicago Innovation Awards
Kuczmarski & Associates and the Chicago Sun-Times established the Chicago Innovation Awards in 2002 as an annual program to honor significant innovations introduced by Chicago-area companies. Each year the Chicago Innovation Awards honor 10 winners who have introduced products or services that uniquely fill unmet needs, generate a competitive response in the marketplace, exceed market expectations and achieve financial success. For more information, visit www.ChicagoInnovationAwards.com.