OfficeMax Incorporated
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Company Overview
| Company: | OfficeMax Incorporated |
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| Industry: | Office Products Retail & Distribution |
| Website: | http://www.officemax.com |
This company is taking the office supply business to the max. OfficeMax (formerly Boise Cascade) is the #3 office products retailer in North America (behind Staples and Office Depot), with some 1,025 superstores in the US, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. The stores offer about 10,500 name-brand and OfficeMax-branded products, including paper, pens, forms, and organizers, as well as office furniture and a wide range of technology products. OfficeMax also provides printing and document services through its ImPress store-within-a-store. In addition to its retail outlets, the firm's contract division sells directly to business and government customers through field agents, telesales, and catalogs.
Key Numbers
| Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 8,267 (2008) |
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| One-year % Growth in Sales | -9.0 (2008) |
| Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | -1,657.9 (2008) |
| One-year % Growth in Net Income | 0.0 (2008) |
| Number of Employees | 33,000 (2008) |
| One-year % Growth in Number of Employees | -8.3 (2008) |
| Fiscal Year-End | December |