Paper Buying Survey

In-plants play a very large role in buying and specifying paper for their customers, with 52 percent of them spending more than $100,000 on paper annually. Most rely on multiple merchants to get the best deals, with 17.5 percent saying they changed their primary paper supplier in the past year due to factors like poor service, better prices/availability elsewhere or new bid contracts.

When it comes to using environmentally responsible papers, apathy seems to be taking hold in organizations. The percentage that consider the use of “green” papers to be “extremely important” is virtually identical to the percentage that did so in our 2011 survey (17 percent).

Click on the "related" link to see the PDF of this survey and learn more about the paper-buying and usage habits of in-plants.