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Market Cap:$17.8B
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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Staples sets 8.25-cent quarterly dividend
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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 Posts Higher Earnings In Fiscal Q3
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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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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
News & Analysis
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Stars fill Staples Center again
- 2008-06-16
LOS ANGELES -- Eschewing the chance to see Tiger Woods' U.S. Open final-round run, a bevy of entertainers again was on hand at Staples Center on Sunday to watch Game5 of the NBA Finals. Actress Sally Field, director Jesse Dylan and director/writer/actor Malcolm D. Lee joined...
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...
NBA All-Star Dwyane Wade and Staples Present Mitchell/Moore Park with $25,000 Staples Dream Park Challenge Grand Prize
- 2008-06-09
Dwyane Wade Joins More Than 500 Pompano Beach Residents in Public Celebration
Fourth Annual "Basketball 101" at Staples Center Features Spectacular Array of Participants; Phil Jackson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Derek Fisher, Many Others Slated to Participate
- 2008-01-08
LOS ANGELES -- The LA Sports & Entertainment Commission's LASEC highly successful "Basketball 101" returns for the fourth annual event on Wednesday, January 16 from 5:00-9:30 PM at STAPLES Center. This year's roster of participants features a star-studded list of basketball experts that should make this year's event the best...
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...
Jackson-Lakers drama's new episode
- 2005-06-15
LOS ANGELES -- The somewhat expected yet strange return of Phil Jackson as coach of the Los Angeles Lakers doesn't mean the Lakers are back. But the buzz is back at the Staples Center. A news conference announcing his rehiring Tuesday brought out a media horde as big...
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