Corporate Express Named General Motors' Supplier of the Year; Corporate Express Wins Supplier Award From GM for the Third Consecutive Year

    BROOMFIELD, Colo., May 7 Corporate Express, Inc., a
Buhrmann company, was named a General Motors (GM) Supplier of the Year for
2000.  The award is given annually to GM's best global suppliers in
recognition of their superior performance in quality, service, technology and
price.  Corporate Express also won the GM Supplier of the Year for 1998 and
1999.
    "The GM Supplier of the Year award is one of the most prestigious awards
in the automotive industry, and we are very honored to receive it.  It has
even more significance to Corporate Express because we have won it for three
consecutive years," said Robert King, President and CEO of Corporate Express.
"Our relationship with GM demonstrates the value and cost savings that
companies can find by consolidating suppliers of non-production goods and
services."
    "Corporate Express represents the best of the best and it has set an
example during the past year for other companies to follow," said Bo
Andersson, executive in charge, GM Worldwide Purchasing.  "It is a role model
and it is an honor to work with a company so committed to supporting our
priorities for quality, launch and a balance between current and future
business."
    The GM Supplier of the Year award began as a global program in 1992.
Award-winners are selected by a global team of executives from purchasing,
engineering, manufacturing and logistics who base their decisions on supplier
performance in quality, service technology and price.  This year, General
Motors honored 165 suppliers from 19 countries for their excellence in 2000.
    "General Motors values innovative procurement solutions and Corporate
Express specializes in designing and delivering solutions that respond to our
customers' needs," said King.  "This award is a tribute to the outstanding
service provided by our employees in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, Novi and Warren,
Michigan, Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee, Whippany, New Jersey and Corporate
Express Australia, and I'd like to recognize and congratulate them for this
achievement."
    In addition to winning the 2000, 1999 and 1998 GM Supplier of the Year
Award, Corporate Express has a history of providing cost savings and
innovative procurement solutions for General Motors and Saturn Corporation, a
division of GM.  Corporate Express has won the 1997, 1998 and 1999 Quality
Recognition Award and the Outstanding Achievement Award from Saturn
Corporation.  Corporate Express is one of only 18 qualified Integrators to
roll out the Integrated Process to GM worldwide.

    About Corporate Express
    Corporate Express, a Buhrmann company, is the world's largest
business-to-business supplier of essential office and computer products and
services to customers who value superior procurement solutions.  Corporate
Express' North American operations have approximately 275 facilities,
including 57 distribution centers, and employs 13,000 people.

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