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school office suppliesOffice Depot (NYSE: ODP), is one of the world's largest office supply retail store chains, with over 1,000 stores worldwide in 23 countries. It has a strong catalog and e-commerce operations which cater to both the general public and to large corporate clients. It is headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida. HistoryOffice Depot was founded in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida (near Fort Lauderdale) in 1986 by three partners: Pat Sher, Stephen Dougherty, and Jack Kopkin. Sher, the company's first CEO, died the next year from leukemia. Office Supplies : Office Furniture and Products : Office Depot. The company retained professional executive recruiters (so-called "headhunters") to find a replacement for Sher. The new Chairman and CEO turned out to be a Sherwin-Williams executive named David Fuente. At first reluctant to take the job, Fuente embraced the concept of an office products superstore and immediately launched an aggressive nationwide expansion program. To finance it, he arranged for an initial public offering of stock in 1988. In 1991, Office Depot expanded to the West Coast region with the purchase of competitor Office Club. Brand name closeouts! LA. By 1993, it was operating over 350 stores in the U. S. and Canada. The company began to run into problems in the late 1990s when many key North American markets became saturated with too many of the big three office supply chains: Office Depot, OfficeMax, and Staples. Home teacher supplies uninterruptible power supplies disney party supplies waterbed supplies drafting supply office supply wholesale balloon supplies supply chain management degree vinyl siding supplies industrial packaging supply dewalt power tools high power diode lasers printer power supplies gateway computer power supply cat power drywall power sander the protein power diet cheap hosting services carpet cleaning service fast internet service black dating services bulk email services cingular cell phone service web hosting service providers long distance phone services san diego dating service web services design paper shredding services web site services local phone service atlanta limousine services in los angeles satellite telephone service chicago limo service direct tv service aircraft charter services consumer credit repair service dallas virtual office services aol internet phone service online matchmaking service general business service small business telephone service computer service new york elder services |