2.  Sir Philip Nigel Ross Green was born in 15
March 1952 in Croydon.
 British businessman and the CEO of
the Arcadia Group, a retail giant that
includes Topshop,BHS and Dorothy
Perkin.
 He is the son of a successful Jewish
property developer and retailer.

3.  . His family moved to Hampstead Garden a
middle-class area in north London, and at
the age of nine he was sent to the Jewish
boarding school Carmel College in Oxford
shire.
 After his father died of a heart attack, Green
was in line to inherit the family business at the
age of twelve.

4.  After leaving boarding school at 15, he
worked for a shoe importer before
travelling to the US, Europe and the Far
East.
 His first business with a £20,000
loan, importing jeans from the Far East to
sell on to retailers in London.

5.  Royal Philips Electronics N.V., more
commonly known as Philips, is a leading
company active in consumer
electronics.
 Philips combines technology and design
to provide a versatile product range that
focuses on people-oriented solutions.

6.  Sustainability is a core value at Philips.
 company aims to keep its carbon
footprint as small as possible.
 Philips introduced paperless invoicing in
2006.
 Invoicing has been successfully
imple-mented in several European
countries.

7.  Company strive to optimize internal
processes to ensure maximum energy
savings and efficiency.
 Major projects initiated in this regard is
the delivery of elec-tronic
invoices, replacing the paper version.

8.  The Basware solution is an open
platform that allows companies to
exchange electronic messages.
 The Basware solution converts the data
and makes sure that the documents are
delivered to the right person in the right
format.

9.  Enabled to bring paper flow down to a
minimum.
 providing the customer with the required
information in a fast and correct manner.
 To facilitate its European e-Invoicing
project, Philips partnered up with Basware.
 The solution supports just about any
international invoice format and facilitate
communication at all levels, such as via
Value Added Networks, or via the Internet

10.  Solution can also easily deliver invoices
to the customer in other formats: on
paper or in PDF. That’s why currently
setting up a process for delivery via other
channels, offer electronic invoices to all
customers.