There were 11, 500 office products dealers when Office Depot superstores started popping up in the late 1980s.
Office Depot is selling these note pads at half price (good information for any retailer).
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Companies including Starbucks and Office Depot have also incorporated Passport into their Web sites.
Along with slower revenue growth, Office Depot earns profit margins that are inferior to Staples.
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Office Depot, Fidelity, Chrysler, American Airlines, Sony and Nortel all train employees via the Web.
The U.S. shopping-center industry doesn't love the idea of an Office Depot Inc.
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Soon after, Office Depot created a poison pill defense that would fend off hostile takeovers.
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Investors are enthused by partnerships with the likes of Target, Office Depot, Toys "R" Us and Expedia.com.
When Office Depot was shopping for a 4-terabyte data warehouse in mid-1999, it chose Teradata over IBM.
Under the terms of the all-stock deal, Office Depot will issue 2.69 shares for each OfficeMax share.
The country's five largest online retailers (often called e-tailers) were Amazon, Staples, Office Depot, Dell and Hewlett-Packard.
Its stable shares have routinely outperformed those of smaller rivals Office Depot ( ODP) and OfficeMax ( OMX).
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Most analysts think investors should stand pat on Office Depot, with 10 of 13 analysts rating it hold.
Office Depot chief Neil Austrian and his OfficeMax counterpart Ravi Saligram will be considered, along with external candidates.
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Office Depot competes mainly with Staples and OfficeMax, but also faces pressure from Target and Wal-Mart.
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While the entire industry has suffered as small businesses cut back during the recession, Office Depot underperformed rivals.
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For each (low-margin) pencil sold in Office Depot's corner of Amazon, the online service gets just a small fee.
Office Depot looks to keep the momentum going when it reports third quarter earnings on Tuesday, October 30, 2012.
The news came after the deal was prematurely announced earlier Wednesday, buried in an Office Depot press release.
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The majority of analysts think investors should stand pat on Office Depot, with 10 of 13 analysts rating it hold.
Those details 2.69 shares of Office Depot for each share of OfficeMax were unchanged in the final announcement.
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Only three companies dominate the industry: Staples, Office Depot, and Office Max.
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YCharts Pro finds Staples, the market leader, and Office Depot both undervalued.
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Then, Office Depot found itself pressured by activist hedge fund Starboard Value.
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The most recent instance had been a merger between Office Depot and OfficeMax, which was released prematurely, as my colleague Abram Brown reported.
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Amazon also stayed above the entire Specialty Retail Scores Index (78), surpassing Office Depot (84), Costco (83) and others as well.
Other stocks in his retail basket include The Gap ( GPS), RadioShack ( RSH), Office Depot ( ODP) and Sears Holdings Corp. ( SHLD).
Office Depot ( ODP - news - people ) and Staples--stand to do well, at least against weak comps for a year.
"In the past decade, with the growth of the internet, our industry has changed dramatically, " said Neil Austrian, chairman and chief executive of Office Depot.
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