Corporate Express Tour


When: Wednesday October 19th, 2005

Location: Dinner location to be announced
Reception: 5:00 PM
Dinner: 6:00 PM Sharp
Cost: Members: $45 Non-Members: $65

Following dinner please join us for a tour of Corporate Express facility is located at 550 Pendant Drive Mississauga L5T 2W6. (1K north of the 401 on Kennedy Rd. Mississauga)

Download the Registration form here: Registration form

Our host for this evening is Mr. Michael Zimmerman, VP Operations.

Corporate Express is one of Ontario's largest B2B suppliers of essential office and computer products, office furniture including design services, print solutions, business machines and service, along with janitorial, break room and safety supplies (FBS). The Division generated sales close to $100 million in the Ontario market in 2004.


Facility Fast Facts:

  • State-of-the-art Warehouse Technology: Our 130,000 facility is fully automated utilizing the latest bar code technologies for picking and vehicle loading. The distribution center deploys revolutionary "pick-to-light" and RF pick to cart technology. This technology drives accuracy and efficiency in all order picking processes, helping to ensure that all orders are filled accurately. State of the Art RF loading; help keep Corporate Express far ahead of our competition with 99.98% next day delivery via our fleet of 22 delivery vehicles

  • The Distribution Center is managed through empowered "self directed work teams". These highly effective teams deploy the manufacturing principles of, Continuous Improvement Program (CIP), Value Stream Mapping (VSM) and 5S, which is a visual workplace program. The end result is "World Class", with the highest quality standards in the industry; the employees receive incentive payments for achieving a 99.9% quality rating. The ingrained culture is invigorating, where meaningful work is accomplished through teamwork and by cheering each other on. Our "engaged" culture is a clear competitive advantage.


Parent Company

Buhrmann NV (NYSE: BUH)
As an international business-to-business services and distribution group, Buhrmann is the world's major supplier of office products and graphic systems for the business market. A combination of modern Internet technology and advanced logistic processes allows Buhrmann to distribute its products in a highly efficient way. Internet sales account for a rapidly growing proportion of total sales.
With its Office Products Divisions operating under the name of Corporate Express, Buhrmann is a market leader in the business-to-business market for office products in North America, Australia and Europe. Furthermore, Buhrmann is the European market leader in paper merchanting and in the distribution of graphic systems. Buhrmann, headquartered in the Netherlands, generates sales of EUR 6 billion with approximately 18,000 employees in 18 countries


If you are not a current MHMS member and would like to become one contact us at info@mhmsontario.com and we will send you a membership registration form.