Office Depot says incentive budgets 'static'
Office Depot will keep rewarding over-achievers with desirable incentives, despite challenging budgets.
by Alison Ledge
Champion's Circle is Office Depot's European-wide annual sales incentive programme, which will take place in Miami in 2014 for around 200 staff and their partners.
I also organise an incentive each year for around 60 people in the UK & Ireland for the second tier of winners. In May 2013, we went to Gleneagles for a night.
This year, winners will stay at Pennyhill Park Hotel in Surrey and will enjoy a horseracing event at Ascot Racecourse nearby. For 2015, I am in discussions with London's Shangri-La hotel.
Our incentives must be in a desirable location or a celebration venue.
Budgets are always a challenge, but they have remained static. As a business we are still keen on rewarding our over-achievers.