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Is OfficeMax the same as Office Depot? ›

Office Depot, Inc.

Through its banner brands Office Depot®, OfficeMax®, CompuCom® and Grand&Toy®, the company offers its customers the tools and resources they need to focus on their passion of starting, growing and running their business.

In 2020, the retail chain announced its plans to close or consolidate a number of stores and to cut 13,100 jobs by the end of 2023. From the beginning of 2020 to January 2023, 327 locations nationwide were shuttered, per company reports.

In May 2014, Office Depot announced the closure of four hundred stores, due to declining sales and customer migration to e-retailers. 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.

Please note, Office Depot recently changed their logo and name. Their name is now “ODP”. Their site is still available on the UND Marketplace with the new logo.

How do I return an order? Return items to any Office Depot® or OfficeMax® store or using the self-service option in the mobile app. How can I cancel my In-Store and Curbside Pickup order? Simply call your pickup store and they will assist you with canceling the order.

Staples and Office Depot have tried tie-ups before in hopes of gaining scale and becoming the country's singular office supply store. But the retailers abandoned efforts to combine in a $6.3 billion deal in 2016 after the Federal Trade Commission sued to block the proposed merger on antitrust grounds.

ODP, the parent company of Office Depot and OfficeMax, Tuesday thanked one of its investors, investment firm AREX Capital Management, for its suggestion that ODP make some major structural changes including spinning out its Office Depot business. However, Boca Raton, Fla.

Worldwide, the two chains operate some 4,000 stores combined. Office Depot, which is still working through the closures of hundreds of redundant stores from its OfficeMax merger, has about 1,900 U.S stores, while Staples has about 1,300.

ODP, the parent company of Office Depot, is continuing its transition from dependence on its traditional commercial business and looking more and more like a B2B product and service provider based on its first fiscal quarter 2023 results.

Staples Center, the downtown Los Angeles home to several local pro sports teams, will be renamed Crypto.com Arena. The cryptocurrency platform and exchange is paying more than $700 million over 20 years to put its name on an arena that has hosted countless major sports and entertainment events since it opened in 1999.

Who owns Staples now? ›

Sycamore Partners

Staples / Parent organization

Staples is owned by Sycamore Partners — a private equity firm that specializes in retailers.

OfficeMax is an American office supplies retailer founded in 1988. As an independent chain, it was the third-largest office supply retailer in the United States. Following a 2013 merger, it is currently a brand and subsidiary of Office Depot.

Competitive Positioning As a leading specialty retailer in the office equipment industry, Office Depot competes with major players like Amazon and Walmart. Identifying unique value propositions could carve out market niches and offer competitive advantages.

Office Depot and Home Depot are operated by different companies.

The Office Depot® OfficeMax® Gift Card is valid on purchases at Office Depot stores in the U.S., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, online or by phone (excluding all gift and prepaid cards).

Our Price Match Guarantee

We match our Competitors' prices. What does that mean? Office Depot® and OfficeMax® stores and Officedepot.com will gladly match the price on a new identical item sold by any retailer who sells products in both retail stores and online under the same brand name.

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