St. Charles, IL - American Office Products Distributors, Inc. (AOPD) proudly announces that they have reached an agreement with Tom Buxton, the founder and principle of Interbizgroup, to become their National Account Consultant, effective May 1st, 2010.  Tom will be responsible for working with the AOPD dealers in the development of Regional and National Account Business.  His responsibilities will include:  assisting AOPD dealers in the key areas of target lists, bid analysis, high level account presentations, and more importantly develop a systematic approach to training the AOPD dealers, as AOPD enhances their long running strategic approach to this market segment.

"Tom's industry experience, along with AOPD's contract and pricing consultant, Dealer Pricing Services, and our exclusive partnership with the industry leader in on demand Sales Intelligence, Ascellerate, provides AOPD dealers with very powerful resources," commented Bud Mundt, AOPD Executive Director.  "This will greatly enhance AOPD's position as the leader in national accounts for independent dealers," he concluded.

About Tom Buxton
Tom Buxton inherited a small family office supplies business known as International Office Products and it proceeded to grow at a faster rate than any local competitor.  Tom sold the business to Corporate Express, a multinational office supplier in 1997.

Tom was originally hired to be an executive with Corporate Express, but during a nine year corporate career he was promoted from sales manager to VP of sales for the Colorado division.  After three years in that position, the corporate office created a new position for him with the title of Director of Strategic Relationship Management.  After one year in that position he effectively worked himself out of a job by transitioning the management of troubled accounts to the newly created Strategic Accounts Organization.  His last two years with the company was spent as a Director in the Margin Management Department and as Director of Product Merchandising.

About AOPD
AOPD is the world's largest network distributor of office products.  AOPD has grown to include 94 dealers and affiliates with 173 locations throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia.  AOPD is focused on the development and implementation of regional, national and international office products distribution programs.