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Market Cap:$17.3B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$23.0B
- Public
- US
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Staples, the world?s largest office products company, is committed to making it easy for customers to buy a wide range of office products, including supplies, technology, furniture, and business services. With 2008 sales of $23 billion and 91,000 associates worldwide, Staples serves businesses of all sizes and consumers in 27 countries throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. In July 2008, Staples acquired Corporate Express, one of the world?s leading suppliers of office products to businesses and institutions. Staples invented the office superstore concept in 1986 and is headquartered outside Boston.
Number of Employees 57,291
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NAICS Code Stationery and Office Supplies Merchant Wholesalers: 424120
Recent Events
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Staples' Shares Should Hold Together
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Staples Q3 profit up on lower charges, beats Street
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Staples says it’s optimistic about future
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Cloud hangs over Black Friday
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Black Friday Laptop Deals Under $300
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Staples Black Friday 2009 Deals Announced via Twitter, Facebook
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TWEET: 'I'm About to Testify in My Defamation Case!'
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Staples, Dogwood Alliance Promote Forest Carbon Offsets
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Staples aims to improve its environmental footprint
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Throw This Stock Away
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Sector Snap: Office Depot falls, OfficeMax rises
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Staples declares USD0.025 quarterly cash dividend
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Staples 2Q profit falls 39 pct on acquisition cost
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Staples profit drops as recession takes toll
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Staples tags president Mike Miles to head multichannel international unit
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What you missed.(pharmaceutical industry lobbying against laws on direct to consumer advertising of drugs)(Staples Inc. retains MediaCom as advertising agency)(Federal Trade Commission praises entertainment industry for limiting marketing of violent movie
- 2007-04-16
It's high noon on Capitol Hill. The congressional debate over direct-to-consumer drug advertising is due to kick off Wednesday and ad and pharmaceutical groups are increasing their lobbying efforts, desperately hoping to deflect the attack against a It's high noon on Capitol Hill. The congressional...
Stand and deliver: what happens when web merchants make delivery promises they can't keep?
- 2003-11-01
STAPLES RECENTLY HAD TO PAY $850,000 to settle an FTC Mail or Telephone Order Merchandise Rule complaint. Why? Because the company failed to keep its product delivery promises. Specifically, Staples claimed on its Web site that it could deliver products in just one day--when, in fact, the offer applied only...
Staples, Inc. and Office Depot, Inc. agree with the FTC to extend Hart-Scott-Rodino waiting period until March 13, 1997
- 1997-02-28
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 28, 1997--Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLS) and Office Depot, Inc. (NYSE:ODP) today announced they have agreed with the Federal Trade Commission to extend the Hart-Scott-Rodino waiting period from March 5 to March 13, 1997. Staples, Inc. and Office Depot, Inc., pioneers of the office products superstore...
Activist Group Opposes Office Depot-Staples Merger.(Originated from The Miami Herald)
- 1997-02-25
Feb. 25--The proposed $3.5 billion merger of Office Depot and Staples should be rejected because it will reduce competition and raise prices, a Ralph Nader research group told the Federal Trade Commission. The Consumer Project on Technology said its study found a...
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