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Office Depot
Office Depot, Inc. is an office supply retailing company headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, United States. The company has combined annual sales of approximately $11.2 billion, employs about 66,000 associates, and serves consumers and businesses in 59 countries with more than 2,200 retail stores, e-commerce sites and a business-to-business sales organization. The company’s portfolio of brands includes Office Depot, OfficeMax, Grand & Toy, Viking Direct, Ativa, TUL, Foray, Realspace, and DiVOGA.
It was announced February 20, 2013, that Office Depot and OfficeMax would combine in an all-stock deal.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-20/office-depot-officemax-to-merge-to-compete-with-staples.html )〕 On November 5, 2013, the merger was completed.
On February 4, 2015, it was announced that rival Staples had agreed to purchase Office Depot in a cash and stock deal worth approximately $6.3 billion. The deal will need approval from both companies' shareholders as well as governmental regulatory authorities. As of November 2015, the proposal is on hold as the deal is currently under extensive review by the Federal Trade Commission.
== History ==
Office Depot was founded in March 1986 by the late F. Patrick Sher, the former chairman and chief executive officer; Stephen Dougherty, the president; and Jack Kopkin, the executive vice president.〔FundingUniverse.com, "Office Depot, Inc. - Company History," (), Retrieved 2010-02-26.〕 All three were formerly associated with Home-owner's Warehouse, the home improvement company that Sher sold to Service Merchandise in 1983 and renamed as Mr. HOW Warehouse. The catalog showroom chain eventually sold off the Mr. HOW Warehouse units to a variety of buyers including Builders Square, the home center warehouse subsidiary of Kmart Corporation. They envisioned a warehouse-style store for office products where customers could purchase items in bulk for discounted prices. This concept led to the beginning of what is known as Office Depot, and the company opened its first store at Lakes Mall in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida in October 1986.〔
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