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| industry = Retail | foundation = Brighton, Massachusetts, United States | founder = | key_people = | hq_location_city = Framingham, Massachusetts | hq_location_country = United States | num_locations = | num_locations_year = 2010 | area_served = Worldwide | products = | revenue = US$ 22.492 billion | revenue_year = 2014 | net_income = US$ 134.5 million | net_income_year = 2014 | assets = US$ 10.313 billion | assets_year = 2014 | num_employees = 79,075 | num_employees_year = 2015 | slogan = ''Make More Happen'' | divisions = Staples Canada | subsid = Officenet-Staples Staples Office Centre Mondoffice Staples Advantage | homepage = }} Staples, Inc. is a large United States-based office supply chain store, with over 2,000 stores worldwide in 26 countries. Headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts, the company has retail stores serving customers under its original name in Australia, Austria, Brazil, China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States, while operating subsidiaries in Argentina as Officenet-Staples, in Netherlands as Staples Office Centre, in Canada as Staples Canada (Bureau en Gros in Quebec), and in Italy as Mondoffice. Staples also does business exclusively with enterprises in the United States, Canada and multiple European countries as Staples Advantage.〔https://qadr.staples.com/sbd/content/about/media/img/corpex_spls_overview_sshtnosoul.pdf〕 Staples sells supplies, office machines, promotional products, furniture, technology, and business services both in stores and online. The company opened its first store in Brighton, Massachusetts on May 1, 1986. ==History== Staples was co-founded by Leo Kahn and Thomas G. Stemberg, who were former rivals in the New England retail supermarket industry. The idea for Staples originated in 1985, while Stemberg was working on a proposal for a different business. He needed a ribbon for his printer, but was unable to obtain one because his local dealer was closed for the Independence Day holiday. A frustration with the reliance on small stores for critical supplies combined with Stemberg's background in the grocery business led to a vision for an office supply superstore. The first store was opened in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston in 1986. Staples started with backing from private equity firms including Bain Capital; Bain co-founder Mitt Romney served on the company's board of directors for the next 15 years, helping shape their business model. In 1991, Staples founded its Canadian subsidiary, The Business Depot, and began opening stores under that name, though over a decade later, all stores were renamed as "Staples". The first store opened in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada north of Toronto. The following year, Staples began expanding into Europe, and opened its first store in Swansea, United Kingdom. During its 10th anniversary in 1996, Staples became a member of the Fortune 500 companies as sales surpassed $3 billion. On September 4, 1996, Staples and Office Depot announced plans to merge.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Legal Times )〕 The Federal Trade Commission decided that the superpower would unfairly increase office supply prices despite competition from OfficeMax, because OfficeMax did not have stores in many of the local markets that the merger would affect.〔 A U.S. Court agreed. (Dalkir and Warren-Boulton, 2003.)〕 Staples ultimately argued that chains such as Wal-Mart and Circuit City Stores represented significant competition, but this argument did little to sway the FTC. Following the denial of the merger by the FTC, a rivalry has formed between the two companies. Staples acquired the naming rights for the Staples Center in Los Angeles during its construction in 1998. Between 1999 and 2001, unsuccessful attempts to enter the telecommunications business were made as Staples created Staples Communications after the purchase of Canada-based company, Claricom, from an investment group. The company was later sold to Platinum Equities and renamed NextiraOne. By 2001, Staples integrated its e-commerce website to all of its subsidiaries across the world. In 2002, Staples launched Staples Foundation for Learning and acquired Medical Arts Press, which became part of Quill Corporation. By 2004, Staples expanded to Austria and Denmark and in 2007, Staples opened its first store in India. In 2008, Staples acquired Dutch office supplies company Corporate Express, one of the largest office supply wholesalers in the world.〔(''Reuters, June 12, 2008, Staples wins Corporate Express in $2.65 bln deal )〕 Staples also launched 11 concept stores in the New England area featuring a large focus on small business and technology related services. In March 2005, Staples and Ahold announced a plan to include a Staples branded store-within-store section in all Stop & Shop Supermarkets and Giant Food stores throughout the Northeast.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Stop & Shop/Giant Launch Staples Branded School and Home Office Supplies Sections )〕 In August 2006, Ahold announced the addition of the Staples section to all Tops Friendly Markets locations as well. On March 6, 2014, Staples announced it would close up to 225 stores in North America by the end of 2015, in order to cut $500 million in costs annually. On February 4, 2015, Staples announced a plan to acquire its remaining competitor, Office Depot Inc., in a deal valued around $6.3 billion, giving it ownership of both the Office Depot and OfficeMax chains. Office Depot had previously acquired OfficeMax in a bid to compete against Staples. The deal may face antitrust scrutiny for its monopolization of the office supply market, unless growing competition against online retailers is considered a factor as well.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-04/staples-to-buy-office-depot-in-deal-valued-at-6-3-billion )〕 , the merger was still tied up in Federal Trade Commission review.〔https://spendmatters.com/2015/11/17/procurement-saint-what-would-thomas-stemberg-think-about-the-staples-office-depot-merger/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Staples Inc.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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