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2019 TWICE Top 100: Watch List
Keeping close tabs on key players that appear to be reaching either strategic or existential crossroads
Office Depot
Retail
Office Depot Teams With Alibaba
Intends to speed delivery time and provide SMBs with access to global network
Retail
Life After Retail: Staples & Office Depot Search For Greener Pastures
It was a grand case of “I told you so.”
Industry
Office Depot North America Chief Mark Cosby Departing
Mark Cosby is leaving Office Depot, where he has served as president of the office supply chain’s North American business for more than two...
news
Office Depot Pushes Laptops In Black Friday 2016 Promos
Black November? Try October. Office Depot said it’s kicking off its Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions nearly four weeks early on Oct. 30....
Industry
Office Depot CEO Roland Smith Stepping Down Next Year
Two months after Staples CEO Ron Sargent relinquished the corner office, his counterpart in the failed merger of the last remaining office supply superstores...
Blogs
Strike Two For Staples And Office Depot
Let me get this straight: It was OK for Office Depot and Office Max to merge, but Staples couldn’t join the party. Hmmmm. What...
Blogs
Staples, Office Depot: The Gloves Are Off
If the presidential campaign has done anything, it has reinforced the notion that politics makes strange bedfellows: For over a year now, archrivals Staples and...
news
Staples-Office Depot Deal Is Dead
The proposed $6.3 billion merger of Staples and Office Depot is kaput. Staples dropped its acquisition plans last night after a U.S. district court...
news
Staples, Office Depot Delay Merger
The nation’s two largest office-supply chains have put off their planned merger until May while they fight a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit seeking to...
Blogs
An Open Letter From The CEOs Of Staples And Office Depot
The chairmen and CEOs of Staples and Office Depot have issued an open letter to customers in the wake of the FTC’s move this...
news
FTC Moves To Block Staples-Office Depot Merger
In the industry’s second major merger challenge by federal regulators this year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) yesterday moved to block Staples’ proposed $6.3...
news
Staples-Office Depot Deal Hits Snag: Report
Staples’ proposed $6.3 billion buyout of Office Depot may be hitting a regulatory roadblock. According to the New York Post, the Federal Trade Commission...
news
Office Depot Kicks Off Pre-Black Friday Sales This Sunday
Office Depot and its OfficeMax subset will enter the pre-holiday promotional fray this Sunday with the first of two “early Black Friday” sales. The...
Financial
Office Depot Primed For Merger With Staples
Boca Raton, Fla. – Office Depot is getting all its ducks lined up in anticipation of its year-end $6.3 billion acquisition by Staples. In...
Financial
Office Depot Narrows Q4 Loss
Boca Raton, Fla. — Office Depot trimmed its losses during its fiscal fourth quarter. The No. 2 office-supply chain reported an $84 million loss...
news
Staples Makes $6.3B Bid For Office Depot
Updated! Framingham, Mass. — Staples will buy Office Depot for $6.3 billion in cash and stock under a definitive agreement reached between the two...
news
Staples, Office Depot Could Be One: Report
Framingham, Mass. – Staples and Office Depot are in advanced merger talks, sources told the Wall Street Journal. Details of the negotiations weren’t available,...
Industry
Roland Smith: Office Depot Chief Staples Two Former Rivals
On the first anniversary of its merger with OfficeMax, Office Depot chairman/CEO Roland Smith last month described the combination as “a huge success.” Not...
news
Investor May Broker Office Supply Marriage: Reports
New York – Activist investor Starboard Value may be fostering a merger between Staples and Office Depot. The hedge fund has reportedly acquired a...
news
Office Depot Deems Max Merger ‘Huge Success’
Boca Raton, Fla. — On the first anniversary of its merger with OfficeMax, Office Depot chairman/CEO Roland Smith described the combination as “a huge...
Computers
Samsung Smart Printers Hit Office Stores
Ridgefield Park, N.J. – Samsung said it is now selling its value-focused wireless Smart laser printer line through Office Depot, OfficeMax and Staples stores....
Financial
Office Depot Narrows Losses, Confirms Store Closings
Boca Raton, Fla. – Office Depot reported a $12 million loss in the second quarter, compared with a combined $18 million loss last year...
news
Office Depot Expands Samsung Assortment
Boca Raton, Fla. — Office Depot, parent of the Office Depot and OfficeMax office-supply chains, has expanded its assortment of Samsung printers and tablets....
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