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Market Cap:$17.5B
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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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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Sector Snap: Office Depot falls, OfficeMax rises
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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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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...
Staples and Office Depot: Short Interest Declines
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-11-02
Jessica Johnson submits: Office Depot ODP saw its shares soar by 48% on Friday, as the office supply chain told investors that liquidity was far from running out, juxtaposed with the decision to close some North American stores and sell some assets because of slumping sales. Short...
Engineer guilty of conspiring to export secrets
- 2007-05-11
SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Jurors convicted a Chinese-born engineer Thursday of conspiring to export U.S. defense technology to China, including data on an electronic propulsion system that could make submarines virtually undetectable. Chi Mak also was found guilty of acting as an unregistered foreign agent, attempting to violate...
Business Intelligence.(Brief article)
- 2007-01-18
By Staff $7.41 Billion in total 2005 equipment revenues for black and white printing devices Source: InfoTrends WHAT IT MEANS: Though black and white...
Top Catalog Publishers Embrace Adobe InDesign CS2; Macy's West, Plow & Hearth, Staples Cite Enhanced Quality and Production Efficiency in Decision to Move to InDesign CS2
- 2005-08-02
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that top retailers Macy's West, Plow & Hearth, and Staples have adopted AdobeR InDesignR CS software, the innovative layout and design program, as their standard for catalog production. Available as a standalone software application or as a component of Adobe...
Salesnet Recognized by Aberdeen Group for Providing Enterprises With Quantifiable Benefits and Positive ROI
- 2002-01-15
Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 15, 2002 Salesnet's Sales Force Automation Service Increases New Customer Acquisition Rates at Staples Inc. Salesnet, the premier global Sales Force Automation SFA subscription service, announced today that it is highlighted in a top ten ASP report released by Aberdeen Group, a...
Staples Uses eGain Live Software to Provide Greater Customer Service Convenience
- 2001-07-10
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
Insider Trades - Statistical Data Included
- 2001-06-04
NATIONWIDE DSN REPORT -- The following are major insider trades as reported to the SEC. STOCKS BOUGHT Factory 2-U: Ronald Rashkow, director, bought 5,000 shares on April 20 at $25.99, now owns 153,969 shares. OfficeMax: Gary Peterson, president, bought 15,000 shares on April 5 at $3.21, now...
Late News.(various briefs)(Brief Article)
- 2001-04-16
Staples to take ex-Office Depot site Staples Inc. in August will open its 18th and largest store in Northeast Ohio at the former Office Depot Inc. location at 2150 W. 117th St. in Cleveland, said Noal Solomon, vice president of real estate for Sta...
Insider Trades
- 2001-03-05
NATIONWIDE DSN REPORT -- The following are major insider trades as reported to the SEC. STOCKS BOUGHT AutoZone: ESL Investments, beneficial owner, bought 1,794,100 shares on Jan. 23 to Jan. 26 at $25.94 to $26.64, now owns 23,555,500 shares. OfficeMax: Orient Star Holdings, beneficial owner, bought 110,000...
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