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Leading office and business products vendor ACCO Brands recently reported its 2024 earnings. A few days after those results were published, OPI Talk's Andy Braithwaite caught up with CEO Tom Tedford for a look back at AC

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Leading office and business products vendor ACCO Brands recently reported its 2024 earnings. A few days after those results were published, OPI Talk's Andy Braithwaite caught up with CEO Tom Tedford for a look back at AC

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On 9 August, ACCO Brands CEO Boris Elisman announced he would be retiring as CEO of the company effective 1 October, with COO Tom Tedford stepping up to succeed him. Elisman has been with ACCO for 18 years, the past ten

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