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Market Cap:$17.6B
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
News & Analysis
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The reign of King Des draws to a close
- 1997-08-12
Sir Desmond Pitcher, the chairman of United Utilities, is expected to fight to save his job at a specially convened board meeting in London this lunchtime. With big shareholders massing in the wings to force his early retirement before the official date in 2000, even his most loyal supporters...
Calls for Pitcher to resign at United Utilities
- 1997-07-26
Shareholders in United Utilities called on the company's chairman, Sir Desmond Pitcher, to resign yesterday at an ill-tempered annual meeting in Manchester. Shareholders also criticised the level of executive pay and demanded shorter contracts for directors to minimise the cost of any future boardroom departures. It was also...
United Utilities shocks City by ousting Staples
- 1997-07-22
Shares in United Utilities, the electricity and water supplier for the North West, plunged almost 10 per cent yesterday after the group stunned the stock market by ousting its chief executive, Brian Staples, blaming a "loss of confidence in him by the board". The shock announcement prompted a...
Brian Staples
- 1996-11-29
In our Budget coverage in Wednesday's edition we inadvertentlyused a picture of Brian Staples to illustrate an article about Sir Desmond Pitcher, chairman of United Utilities.
Fat cat purrs with brunette;
- 1996-09-29
Water company fat cat Brian Staples has ditched his wife for a fellow boss's secretary. Staples, 51, pounds 380,000-a-year chief executive of United Utilities, has left his third wife Sonia and moved to a luxury flat with attractive brunette Anne Marie Smith, 32. She...
Fat cat purrs with brunette
- 1996-09-29
Water company fat cat Brian Staples has ditched his wife for a fellow boss's secretary. Staples, 51, pounds 380,000-a-year chief executive of United Utilities, has left his third wife Sonia and moved to a luxury flat with attractive brunette Anne Marie Smith, 32. She...
Unions braced for job losses at United Utilities
- 1996-03-28
Unions fear that 2,000 job losses may be announced today at United Utilities, the company formed by North West Water's pounds 1.8bn takeover last year of Norweb, the regional electricity firm. There was also speculation yesterday that the group might dispose of its retail operations, which have a...
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