But why would the office supply industry resonate so strongly with basketball and hockey fans?
Software packages such as these can be purchased online or from a local office supply store.
It s back to school and work time, and STAPLES (SPLS, 15) is the world s leading office supply retailer.
Combining the ecofont along with inkgard software will cut down your visits to the office supply store significantly.
For that reason, the firm is able to hold onto the bulk office supply market better than anyone else.
Self-help materials sold online and trust kits sold in office supply stores are a waste of your money, or worse.
Bradford Roos' 1, 500-square-foot office supply store, Business as Usual, is a relic, housed under a tin roof in Ketchum, Idaho.
Simply said, the field for office supply retail is currently significantly saturated.
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Perhaps some home organizing stuff like big plastics boxes or cedar hangers or maybe some office supply stuff like cord bundlers or reusable envelopers.
Hayman said IBM already has several customers involved with the new service, including 1-800-FLOWERS, Staples office supply, food company Danone, and various financial services firms.
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Dittig, who runs his father's office supply business near Pittsburgh, Pa.
Understanding that, may discourage clandestine in-office affairs and office supply pilfering.
Even more, the office supply sector is worse off with Staples ( SPLS) and these two companies going head-to-head not only with online retailers, but with each other.
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Investigators took 7, 000 documents during that initial search, so many that they had to go to an office supply store across the street and buy more boxes, Yockelson said.
"As long as Wal-Mart is targeting the consumer and relying on consumers walking the aisles to buy supplies, they will not be a big distraction to the office supply stores, " he says.
"I think that office supply sales will see growth ahead of the consensus median retail industry, especially given that we will get positive job prints in early 2010, which means more post-it notes and pens, " he says.
Dominating the list of winter sports advertisers getting the most bang for their buck were beer makers (Miller, Anheuser-Busch and Coors--no surprise), property insurers (Allstate and State Farm--mild surprise) and office supply companies (Staples, Office Depot and Office Max all made it--bigger surprise).
Update: The press release announcing the merger between office supply chains has been pulled by Office Depot, and DealBook reports the announcement went out prematurely and that bankers and lawyers for the two retailers were still trying to finalize terms Wednesday morning.
Left with just two weeks to explain exactly how seven of the web's biggest properties (and three office supply chains) violated his company Interval's patents, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen figured out a plan -- Intervals' lawyers are drawing big, colored boxes around large swaths of the allegedly infringing websites' real estate.
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Curiously, the office-supply sector itself is anything but orderly, a brawling, up-and-down marketplace prone to price wars.
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Some landlords expressed optimism about finding new tenants for closed office-supply stores.
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Mike Hannigan, the president of an office-supply service in Oakland, Calif.
She plans to apply to an office-supply store, an electronics store and for a telecommunications job she could do from her home in western New York.
Miles Young, owner of M2commerce LLC, an online office-supply retailer in Atlanta, also has seen a big decline in traffic to his business's website, down 50% after the Google move.
The names of most of the men who are subject to TPims have not been made public - but Mr Anderson said the Home Office should supply "information regarding the location of T-Pim subjects" on a region-by-region basis.
To make things fair, we chose regularly replenished items that all three retailers sell, and we didn't include sale items. (While there are back-to-school sales galore right now, January is prime time for office-supply sales.) To bake in the effect of bulk purchasing, we chose 10 of the largest package of each item.
Champion Europe's supply office in Singapore now buys 30% of the firm's needs.
One female soldier broke into the Brigade Medical Supply Office at Forward Operating Base Shank and stole expired prescription narcotics including morphine, Percocet, Valium, fentanyl and lorazepam, the documents show.
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