(See Table
2 for the Top Ten markets per candidate host city.Zealand Malaysia Philippines Greece Australia Finland
7 (32%) (21%) (16%) (19%) (13%) (21%)
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Australia Austria India Indonesia Brazil Austria
8 (30%) (21%) (16%) (19%) (12%) (21%)
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Germany Chile Norway Finland Denmark Mexico
9 (30%) (19%) (16%) (18%) (11% ) (21%)
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India Singapore Portugal Canada Germany Denmark
10 (30%) (19%) (16 %) (18%) (11%) (21%)
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Source: ACNielsen Global Internet Survey, May 2005

About the ACNielsen Global Internet Survey

The ACNielsen Global Internet Survey is a regular syndicated
online consumer study , gathering information from regular users of the
Internet around the world on their attitudes and preferences,
consumption of media, products and services across different markets.

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Africa Australia Philippines Chile
4 (40%) (23%) (17%) (22%) (13%) (25%)
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Indonesia Japan Taiwan S.

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Business Editors

NEW YORK----While citizens in hopeful
2012 Olympic host cities London, Madrid, Moscow, New York and Paris
await the July 6th Olympic Committee decision, a large number of the
world's inhabitants have already made up their minds about which city
they would prefer, and it is Paris, according to a global study
conducted by ACNielsen.
81 percent of French voted Paris, 57 percent of Spanish voted for
Madrid, 85 percent of Russians voted for Moscow , 68 percent of the
British voted for London, and 44 percent of Americans supported New
York's bid. Madrid was supported
by the Portuguese (27%), Brazilians (25%) and Italians (23%).

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Buhrmann company (NYSE: BUH), one of the world's largest business-to-business
suppliers of essential office , computer products and services, announced that
Walter Scott has been named the Vice President of Corporate Express Brands for
North America.
Corporate Express' North American operations 185 facilities , including 38
distribution centers, and the Company employs 10,775 people.com. By market, nearly half of the Turkish and a quarter of Thais,
Poles and Chileans felt the same.

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Corporate Express Names Walter Scott VP of Corporate Express Brands

Scott will report to Dave Grove, Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing +
Merchandising for Corporate Express North America.

About Corporate Express
Corporate Express, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Buhrmann, NV
(AEX: BUHR; NYSE: BUH), an international business services and distribution
group. The survey has a
margin for error of plus or minus 3.4%. All
markets had sample sizes of approximately 500, except for China,
France , Germany, UK and USA, which had sample sizes of approximately
1000.

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Buhrmann is a leading global supplier of office products and graphic
systems for the business market.)
It's worth noting that across all 38 markets, one in six
respondents thought none of the five cities should host the 2012
Olympic host city.

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, Corporate Express, Inc.
The ACNielsen survey found that, quite naturally , people residing
within a potential host market most favored their host city candidate."
(See Table 1 for US survey results)

Table 1: US Respondents: 1st choice of 2012 Summer Olympics Host City
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Paris 12%
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Madrid 12%
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Moscow 7%
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London 13%
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New York 44%
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None of them 12%
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Source: ACNielsen Global Internet Survey, May 2005

Outside candidate markets, the biggest supporters for Paris were
the Chinese (52%), who will hand the Olympic baton to the 2012 hosts,
followed by the Belgians (48%), and Greeks (40%). To learn more, visit www.com

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The online study was conducted by ACNielsen among 21 ,261 Internet
users in 38 markets worldwide in early May 2005. Offering services in more than 100 countries,
the unit provides measurement and analysis of marketplace dynamics and
consumer attitudes and behavior.

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The May 2005 survey included the following markets: Australia,
Austria, Belgium , Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland,
France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia , Ireland, Italy,
Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand,
Norway, Philippines , Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, South
Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, UK , USA.

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Corporate Express' product offering includes
office and computer supplies, imaging and computer graphics supplies, office
furniture, document and print management, desktop software, promotional
products, and other similar products. Through exclusive strategic partnerships,
Corporate Express can deliver product to China, Finland, Hong Kong, Malaysia,
Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia , Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan.CorporateExpress.
ACNielsen found that across 38 markets, 27 voted Paris as their
preferred choice of host city for the 2012 Summer Olympics, followed
in order by London and Madrid (tied), Moscow and then New York.

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In this role, Scott will be responsible for Corporate Express Brands
(CE Brands) sales and marketing across all customer segments, as well as
ensuring a superior customer experience for the complete line of CE Brands
products. Scott
earned an MBA from the Kenan Flagler School at the University of North
Carolina, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Millikin
University. The Company's
Web site address is http://www.

About ACNielsen

ACNielsen, a VNU business, is the world's leading marketing
information provider.

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Africa Greece Sweden
5 (38%) (22%) (17%) (20%) (13%) (24%)
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Switzerland Korea Germany India Japan Hong Kong
6 (35%) (21%) (16%) (19 %) (13%) (24%)
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PARIS Overwhelmingly the People's Choice as 2012 Olympics Host City; Americans Least Enthusiastic Potential Hosts

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3 (48%) (25%) (18%) (25%) (16%) (25%)
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Greece Italy S.

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"Americans were the least enthusiastic amongst potential candidate
markets about hosting the 2012 Summer Olympics," noted Markert. The main
supporters for London 's bid came from Ireland (39%), New Zealand (25%)
and Australia (22%).

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The USA's northern and southern neighbors, Canada
(23%) and Mexico (16%), were New York's biggest supporters.acnielsen.

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"This
may be very much tied to post 9-11 terrorism fears which are probably
strongly associated with New York City in the minds of many Americans.

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"The strong majority of respondents chose Paris to host the Summer
Olympic Games in 2012," said Tom Markert, SVP + Chief Marketing and
Client Service Officer , ACNielsen.
While hosting decisions are not made by popular vote, these findings
certainly seem to indicate that those advocating New York's 2012
candidacy have their work cut out for them between now and July 6.

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Scott joined Corporate Express in 2001 as Director of Strategic Planning
where he initiated the launch of Integrated Sales and Marketing at Corporate
Express, supported sales and marketing efforts for the mid-market customer
segment, and was involved with the creation and launch of the Corporate
Express Brands program. This was felt most strongly in Latin American where
one in five thought the 2012 Summer Olympics should be held somewhere
else.

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Prior to joining Corporate Express, Scott was a Regional Vice President at
Velocity Express, and held several senior management positions at APS. "All other markets, including New
York, have some work to do if they want to catch Paris for the hosting
'gold medal'.

Table 2: Global Top 10 Ranking for 1st Choice Olympic Host City
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Paris Madrid Moscow London NY None
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France Spain Russia UK USA Turkey
1 (81%) (57%) (85%) (68%) (44%) (49%)
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China Portugal Italy Ireland Canada Thailand
2 (52%) (27%) (19%) (39%) (23%) (26%)
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Belgium Brazil Chile N.

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Clients rely on ACNielsen's market
research, proprietary products, analytical tools and professional
service to understand competitive performance, to uncover new
opportunities and to raise the profitability of their marketing and
sales campaigns.

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BROOMFIELD, Colo. Significantly expanded in 2004, CE Brands is Corporate Express'
line of private label products which today includes more than 1,600 SKUs. Corporate Express has operations in
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy,
Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden, the United
Kingdom and the United States.