STAPLES.CA and
STAPLES.COM are website of
Staples Office Supplies
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Staples,
Inc. NASDAQ: SPLS (Staples.ca -
Staples.com) is the world's largest
office supply retail store chain, with over 1,962 stores worldwide.
STAPLES® Business Depot™ /
Bureau en GrosMC
The Business Depot Ltd. was founded in Canada in 1991. In August
1994, Staples, Inc. increased its original investment in The Business Depot
Ltd. by acquiring the remaining 58 per cent, thereby gaining 100 per cent
ownership. In 2001, The Business Depot officially became STAPLES Business
Depot. Today, the company operates locations in every Canadian province
under the banners STAPLES® Business Depot™ and Bureau en GrosMC,
remaining Canada’s largest everyday-low-price supplier of office supplies,
business machines, office furniture and business services to small business
and home office customers. The company’s more than 13,500 employees are
committed to making it easy to buy office products at more than 300 stores,
as well as by catalogue or online. In 2008, Marketing Magazine’s prestigious
Marketing/Leger Corporate Reputation Survey ranked STAPLES Business
Depot/Bureau en Gros number one among Canada’s top 100 companies surveyed.
(Source: Staples.ca Press Info)
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Staples has catalog and delivery businesses and serves office supply
customers in Canada. Staples, Inc. sells
office supplies, office machines,
furniture, technology and business services.
The
company's first office supply store was
opened in Brighton, Massachusetts in 1986. The company is headquartered in
Framingham, Massachusetts. It also does business via the Internet, through
Staples.ca and Staples.com, its websites.
Throughout most of the company's history, Staples employed, in its American
commercials and advertising promotions, the slogan "Yeah, we've got that.",
signifying their wide selection of products. This slogan was retired in
2003, to be replaced with "That was easy." Expanding on that theme, 2005 ads
featured a large red push-button marked "easy". In the UK, Staples had used
the slogan "You want it. We've got it"; they have now changed it to "That
was Easy".
Following a television campaign featuring the 'Easy Button', it was turned
into a real product (available in English "easy", French "simple", Spanish "fácil"
and German "einfach easy"). These buttons were shipped to stores in the US,
Canada and Germany starting in the fall of 2005.
On September 4, 1996, Staples and
Office Depot announced plans to merge. The Federal Trade Commission
decided that the superpower would unfairly increase office supply prices
despite competition from the third-in-line OfficeMax, which did not have
stores in many of the local markets that the merger would affect.
Staples has announced it will start selling
Dell
computers, monitors, ink, toner,
and printers.
 
"The initial products offered at Staples will include Inspiron 1721 and 1521
notebooks, Inspiron 530 desktops, Dell 948 and 926 all-in-one inkjet
printers, Dell 1320c laser printer, Dell SE198WFP 19-inch widescreen flat
panel LCD monitor, and the Dell E228WFP 22-inch widescreen flat panel LCD
monitor. Additionally, Staples will offer ink and toner for most Dell
printers."
Throughout most of
the company's history, Staples employed, in its American commercials and
advertising promotions, the slogan "Yeah, we've got that.", signifying their
wide selection of products. This slogan was retired in 2003, to be replaced
with "That was easy." Expanding on that theme, 2005 ads featured a large red
push-button marked "easy". In the UK, Staples used to use the slogan "You
want it. We've got it", however they have now changed it to "That was Easy".
In
April 2007, Staples introduced its new "Staples Rewards" program.
Benefits include free delivery on online purchases (over $50) and a
quarterly 10% rebate of purchases at the Copy and Print Center, and
purchases of paper, ink, and toner. Previously Staples offered free delivery
on any order for Staples Rewards card holders. Currently only Premier
members get free shipping on all orders. Staples automatically upgrades your
rewards account to Premier status when you spend $1,000 or more in a
calendar year.
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