Office Depot Delays Sale of Retail Businesses; Receives Another Offer
ODP Corporation, the parent company Office Depot, has postponed the sale of its Office Depot and OfficeMax office-supplies retail businesses....
Acquisitions / Canon / News / Office Depot / Office Superstores / Staples
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 17, 2022
ODP Corporation, the parent company Office Depot, has postponed the sale of its Office Depot and OfficeMax office-supplies retail businesses....
Acquisitions / News / Office Depot / Office Superstores / Staples
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 10, 2021
USR Parent, Inc., otherwise known as Staples, has renewed its offer to purchase the consumer business of ODP Corporation, the...
Plans to spin-off B2B group as independent, publicly traded company.
Staples first introduced the Staples Connect brand in February 2020 in the Greater Boston market.
Acquisitions / News / Office Superstores
by Kathleen Wirth · Published September 14, 2017 · Last modified February 7, 2018
International office-supply chain store Staples, which is based in Framingham, Massachusetts, reported today that private-equity firm Sycamore Partners has completed...
Mergers & Acquisitions / News / Office Superstores / Partnerships
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 29, 2017 · Last modified February 5, 2018
Office-supplies chain Staples reported yesterday that Sycamore Partners, a private-equity firm, will acquire Staples for approximately $6.9 billion. Under the...
Financial News / Mergers & Acquisitions / News / Office Superstores
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 6, 2017
On June 2nd, Office Depot, which is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, announced that it had reached an agreement to...
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 14, 2017 · Last modified March 18, 2017
Fortune reports that office-supply store Staples said last week that it will close another 70 stores in North America “amid sharp...
Executive Management / Financial News / News / Office Superstores
by Kathleen Wirth · Published March 2, 2017 · Last modified February 7, 2018
Staples reports that it’s completed its sale to Cerberus Capital Management Staples will retain a 15 percent equity interest in...
Executive Management / Lenovo / News / Office Superstores
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 7, 2017 · Last modified February 7, 2018
Florida-based office-supply superstore chain Office Depot reports that its Gerry P. Smith, a long-time senior executive at PC-maker Lenovo, as...
Electronics for Imaging / News / Office Superstores / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 13, 2016 · Last modified February 28, 2017
Last week, Xerox announced a new partnership with Electronics for Imaging (EFI) and Staples under which it’s introduced self-serve kiosk...
Financial News / News / Office Superstores
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 23, 2016 · Last modified February 7, 2017
According to the BBC, the U.S. owner of Staples has sold Staples’ U.K. arm, which employs some 1,100 people in...
Mergers & Acquisitions / News / Office Superstores
by Kathleen Wirth · Published July 13, 2016 · Last modified February 7, 2017
On July 5th, Taylor Communications reported that it’s completed its acquisition of Staples Print Solutions, a division of Staples, Inc....
3D Printing / Electronics for Imaging / Hewlett-Packard / HP / Inkjet / Konica Minolta / Large Format / Legal Proceedings / Memjet / Office Superstores / OKI / Sharp / Wide Format / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published July 8, 2016 · Last modified February 7, 2017
There was lots of industry news this week, with the breakdown by topic roughly as follows: inkjet: 3 articles (HP...
by Kathleen Wirth · Published July 5, 2016 · Last modified February 7, 2017
The U.K.’s The Telegraph reports that office-supplies superstore Staples is considering pulling out of the U.K. market, which has 107 Staples...
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 15, 2016 · Last modified February 7, 2017
Staples, Inc. reports that it’s launching “Staples Rush,” a same-day delivery service to customers in select major metropolitan areas across...