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Market Cap:$16.8B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$23.0B
- Public
- US
Dow Jones Description
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
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Stationery and Office Supplies Merchant Wholesalers: 424120
Recent Events
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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 earnings fall 38% in second quarter
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Staples tags president Mike Miles to head multichannel international unit
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Ventress to Leave Staples, Miles Assumes Role
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Golden opportunity to watch Tiger, Kobe
- 2008-06-13
LOS ANGELES -- It's a rare chance Thursday. Competing barely a hundred miles apart are two guys who have reached the upper stratosphere of celebrity, where no last name is required. Tiger and Kobe. The mission Thursday is to see both in...
Celtics adjust to L.A.'s bright lights
- 2008-06-13
LOS ANGELES -- Because the Boston Celtics played only one game this season at the Staples Center before the NBA Finals -- and that was Dec.30 -- getting used to the arena's lighting took adjusting. "In the corners, it's real bright," guard Ray Allen said. "It...
Plenty of star power on hand again for Game 4
- 2008-06-13
LOS ANGELES -- Boston Celtics reserve forward Brian Scalabrine hasn't played in the NBA Finals, so he's had ample time to check out the Staples Center celebrities. The biggest star of them all, Jack Nicholson, sat just to the right of the Celtics bench, but being...
Mavericks thump Lakers in Staples Center re-match
- 2007-03-11
LOS ANGELES AFP — Josh Howard scored 24 points and Dirk Nowitzki added 19 as the Dallas Mavericks dismantled the Los Angeles Lakers 108-72 to stretch their formidable National Basketball Association winning streak. The Mavericks, who have already clinched a playoff berth, extended their club-record streak to 17 games,...
Suns turn up heat on Lakers
- 2006-05-03
PHOENIX -- Hollywood, put a hold on that "Staples Series" between your Los Angeles Lakers and their fellow NBA tenants, the Los Angeles Clippers. Kobe Bryant and his newfound playmates still have the Phoenix Suns to deal with. How do you say Game 6 in French? Ask Boris Diaw....
Clippers set sail on playoff voyage after missing the boat for so long
- 2006-04-24
Fear not, Angelenos, that the ground rumbles. This is no earthquake. Be prepared for a major aftershock if somehow, some way, the young, inexperienced Clippers meet the shell-of-their-former-greatness Lakers in the second round of the NBA playoffs. If the Lakers manage to get past Phoenix and were to lose...
Williams, Sharapova set up Wimbledon re-match in WTA season finale
- 2004-11-14
LOS ANGELES AFP — Serena Williams will get a chance to avenge a bitter defeat in the Wimbledon final when she takes on Russian teenager Maria Sharapova in the final of the season-ending WTA Tour Championships. Williams booked her berth in the final of the three million-dollar event with...
Lakers dispatch T'wolves
- 2004-06-01
LOS ANGELES -- As unpredictable and mercurial as the Los Angeles Lakers are this season, there's one thing that usually gets them through tough times. Staples Center. The Lakers chased the Minnesota Timberwolves out of Staples and out of the playoffs Monday night with a 96-90 victory that...
In L.A., Lakers dwarf Clippers
- 2004-02-13
LOS ANGELES -- On rare occasions, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers play at the Staples Center on the same day, one in the afternoon, one at night, with the building crew switching the hardwood floors between games. Jimmy Goldstein, surely the most devoted NBA fan...
NBA today
- 2004-02-13
FRANKLY AMAZING Nets coach Lawrence Frank tied an NBA record for the best start as a coach at 9-0 with New Jersey's 105-85 win over Cleveland on Wednesday night. Frank, who took over for the fired Byron Scott on Jan. 26 matched the record set by Kurt...
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