Office Depot and OfficeMax have announced a merger‚ teaming up to fight industry big boy Staples and competition from general merchandise juggernauts Walmart and Amazon.The move will buy time‚ but it won’t save the office supply chains. Not Office Depot‚ not OfficeMax‚ not even Staples‚ which analysts are touting as the post-merger winner. These office retailers will all be destroyed unless they fundamentally change how they do business. The biggest threat is the fact that workplaces
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Situation Analysis Paper Office Depot Inc. Office Depot is one of the most recognizable suppliers. They distribute and sell office supplies. The products they offer are paper‚ computers‚ printers‚ desks and other office tools. Office Depot accommodates the needs of student or workers with their everyday office supplies. Also they sell merchandise to other suppliers. Office Depot‚ through its international segment‚ operates in several countries across the world. Dadamonitor claims the company
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Marketing Case: Office depot The case that we are going to talk about today is about how office depot manages customer care & services. In the article we had to read they took an example of a couple‚ Steve and Dana. Dana experienced a dreadful delivery and therefore Steve‚ a marketing professor who heard the story from Dana and had just done a presentation about how important customer service is‚ decided to phone office depots customer service to see how they would handle his complaint. Steve had
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“Office Depot” The First Office Depot opened in 1986 in Lauderdale Lakes‚ Florida. The Office Depot is a global supplier of office products and services and has experienced a dramatic growth process over the past twenty-five years. In 1990 the Office Depot Companies bought “The Office Club Inc.”‚ and immediately became the largest office retailer in North America. Having built its business within the United States and having secured a firm business foundation‚ Office Depot expanded internationally
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| [Comprehensive business Analysis: Office Depot] | Background Office Depot was founded in 1986 by F. Patrick Sher‚ Stephen Dougherty and Jack Kopkin in Boca Raton‚ Florida. The three envisioned a warehouse style store that could offer office supplies at discounted prices. The first store was opened in October in Fort Lauderdale. It was immediately successful and before the year was over‚ two more stores were opened in Florida. While Office Depot was one of the first companies to tap into
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Office Depot Financial Statements Restated Office Depot Financial Statements Restated In March of 2011 Office Depot Inc. announced that it would be restating its 2010 financial results after the United States Internal Revenue Service denied its claim to carry back certain tax losses from prior years. “The expected impact of correcting the 2010 financial statements is to reduce full-year tax benefits of approximately $80 million; to change net earnings for 2010 from $33
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The Rivalry among existing firms: strong The office supply industry has a large number of players with a high diversity of rivals. Competition is very furies between them because the office supply industry is so divers in product and services they provide; they include high volume office supply‚ warehouse clubs‚ online retailers‚ copy and print businesses‚ discount retailers and local and regional contract stationers. The large number of competitors in this industry‚ along with a lack of product
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and operating costs‚ cluster them in densely populated areas to justify paying for expensive advertising and stock the stores from a distribution center”. Staples see the office products market as a ‘large‚ diversified market for office supplies and services‚ business machines and related products‚ computer‚ technology and office furniture’. They attempt to reach each sector and are of the market via sales channels‚ which are set up and designed to be convenient to their customers – not just to contractors
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EAGLE INDUSTRIES CASE 1. Why are office products frequently chosen as a lead commodity in strategic sourcing efforts? Office products were chosen as the lead commodity in strategic sourcing efforts conducted by Smith and his team mainly because of the fact that there was not an appreciable difference in the product specifications when it came to differentiating different suppliers. It would almost be like comparing apples against apples. This would therefore provide a nice segway to try and understand
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Inc. founded in 1985 by Thomas G. Stemberg and Leo Kahn in Brighton‚ Massachussets. It is headquartered in Boston and employs 89‚000 employees worldwide. Staples sells office supplies at more than 2‚000 stores as well as through its catalog and call centers‚ the internet site‚ and contract sales force. In additional to typical office supplies‚ stores offer computer hardware and software‚ furniture‚ art and school supplies and printing and copy services ( Staples 10k‚ 2012). The company has 3 operating
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