BNET Industries
Market Cap:$16.1B
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
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Stationery and Office Supplies Merchant Wholesalers: 424120
Recent Events
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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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Fundraising effort provides school essentials
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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
News & Analysis
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Staples, Inc. F3Q08 (Qtr End 11/01/08) Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-12-02
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Oliver Wintermantel – Morgan Stanley Oliver Wintermantel – Morgan Stanley Regarding your gross margin, can you break down your gross margin performance in more detail for example how much of the decline was due occupancy and what was the gross...
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...
Staples' Holiday Marketing Promotes Ease of Buying High-Tech Gifts
- 2007-11-15
Integrated Marketing Campaign Focuses on Hottest Technology and Best Brands
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...
STAPLES Business Depot Selects Unica's Affinium to Help Make Precision Marketing ''Easy''
- 2006-05-16
WALTHAM, Mass. -- UnicaR Corporation (Nasdaq:UNCA), a global provider of Enterprise Marketing Management EMM solutions, today announced STAPLES Business Depot, Canada's leader in office supplies, has chosen Unica's Affinium software to increase its marketing velocity and efficiency and develop more targeted campaigns to its customer base of small businesses and...
At Staples, Goodman is right on the button in its marketing push.(Shira Goodman)
- 2006-02-13
Byline: MYA FRAZIER Byline: MYA FRAZIER
Staples.com.(net marketing: 10 great web sites)
- 2005-09-12
Company: Staples Inc., Framingham, Mass. Target audience: Small businesses and home offices Key Web executive: Colin Hynes, director of usability No. of employees who work on the site: 100 Last major redesign: Began 2003, completed July 2005 No. of p Company: Staples Inc., Framingham, Mass. Target...
The Week; Group calls for ad ban of junk-food.(Briefs)
- 2005-01-10
The Center for Science in the Public Interest unveiled proposed food-marketing guidelines that would dramatically limit marketing to kids and urged TV networks, food marketers and movie companies to implement the limits. The group, which has focused on kids 12 and under, targeted the guidelines to...
Stocks to Watch on Wednesday, September 22, 2004: DANKY, SPLS.
- 2004-09-22
M2 PRESSWIRE-22 September 2004-RumorAlerts.com: Stocks to Watch on Wednesday, September 22, 2004: DANKY, SPLSC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09222004 Sarasota, FL -- RumorAlert.com Stocks to Watch on Wednesday, September 22, 2004: Danka Business Systems PLC (Nasdaq: DANKY) announced before...
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...
