Office Depot
Office Depot is a supplier of office supplies, was established in 1986 and services from the U.S.. The Headquarters is located in Delray Beach, Florida. Office Depot employs around 38,000 people and recorded in 2012, approximately 10.7 billion USD in order. Office Depot sells its products and services through various distribution channels in 59 countries, particularly in 1,656 retail stores, over engaged in direct sales and eCommerce.
The European headquarters is located in Venlo, Netherlands, the German headquarters in the Lower Franconian Großostheim. The Swiss headquarters, including logistics center is located in Lenzburg. Office Depot deals in the DACH region total 932 employees. Of these, 776 in Germany, 111 in Austria and 45 working in Switzerland.
Product spectrum
The company's products include office supplies, IT products, office furniture, and office services such as copying, printing, mailing and copying documents.
The company sells its products through various distribution channels, particularly in 1,656 retail stores, over engaged in direct sales and eCommerce.
Product names include Office Depot, Tech Depot, Viking Office Products, Viking Direct, Guilbert and 4sure.com.
Company History
Office Depot was founded in March 1986, opened in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, USA, the first store in October 1986.
Since 1994, Office Depot is represented by a joint venture in Mexico. 1998 was a merger with Viking Office Products, a direct marketer of office products in Europe and Australia, instead. Since then, the international division of the company, Office Depot and Viking is also active under the brand name.
In 2000, Office Depot led the sales channel " contract customer business " in the UK and Ireland and extended it out to four other countries. With the acquisition of Guilbert SA built Office Depot, 2003, the contract customer business further. Since the end of 2006 business and customers are of Guilbert completely integrated into the Office Depot Store.
In 2006, Office Depot acquired a controlling interest in Best Office in South Korea and a majority stake in AsiaEC, a supplier of office products and services in China. In the same year, the company increased its stake in Office Depot Israel to a majority stake and took over beyond Papirius, a business - to-business distributor of office products and services in Eastern Europe.
The end of 2007 operated the International Division as a wholly owned owned by or majority ownership a large number of office supply stores in France, Japan, Hungary, Israel and South Korea. In addition, Office Depot participates through licensing and distribution agreements to nearly 100 office markets in South Korea and Thailand.
In 2008 launched Office Depot and Reliance Retail Limited, a joint venture to offer business customers in India office products and services. This step marked the market entry in India. To accelerate the market entry of the joint ventures, acquisitions, Office Depot and Reliance also eOfficePlanet the company.
In the same year, Office Depot and the company bigboXX.com entered into a strategic partnership to provide office products and services for business customers in Hong Kong. Also in 2008, paved the cooperation with Netbizz Office Supplies entry into the Singapore market.
In the summer of 2008, Office Depot acquired a majority stake in AGE, a Swedish office supply company.
2009 joined Office Depot with Alshaya, a trading company in the Middle East, a franchise agreement. The aim was to open new Office Depot retail stores in various countries in the Middle East in the coming years. Opened in 2009 the first partnerships retail store in Kuwait. At the same time was the opening of the new Israeli offices and distribution center.
In Europe, Office Depot, built in Großostheim ( Germany ) and Zwolle (Netherlands) new distribution centers and started with Tele Account Management teams in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
2010 Office Depot signed an agreement with the Finnish retail Bruce Campbell Ltd Oy. This was AGE, a Swedish office supplies company in the region, the full title of Office Depot. Middle of the year, the company announced its intention to sell and license-back Office Depot Israel known. Simultaneously, the second Alshaya branch was opened in Dubai and introduced the B2B business in Kuwait and Dubai. The company opened three new stores in addition to France and gave his partnership with Casio known in France for the sale of the video projector " revolution." In the Czech Republic launched Office Depot for entrepreneurs and small business (SMB ) a new online store. In the fourth quarter, Office Depot went into a partnership with Xerox to offer Managed Print Services in Germany.
Social Commitment
Office Depot is committed worldwide to many charities and is the world's first company in the industry with a " Green Book ". 2002 Office Depot Foundation has launched the " Office Depot Charity for Children" to life. This has set itself the goal of supporting charitable projects for children financially and materially.