Fortune Brands hired Goldman Sachs in 2000 to find a buyer for its office products division.
There were 11, 500 office products dealers when Office Depot superstores started popping up in the late 1980s.
With office products there is little innovation or brand equity, and companies are forced to compete on price.
Best Buy (BBY) retails consumer electronics, home office products, entertainment software, appliances and related services through its retail stores.
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There are more than a billion users of its Office products worldwide.
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That revelation in the church would eventually result in one of the most widely used office products in the world: the Post-it Note.
Staples, the world's largest office products company and second largest e-commerce company, today became the first major U.S. retailer to announce the availability of 3Dprinters.
The company founded by Bill Gates and headed by Steve Ballmer continues to thrive on the strength of its software, particularly its Office products.
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Canon may be most familiar as a camera company, but 50% of its third quarter revenue came from office products such as laser printers and multi-function devices.
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Microsoft does, of course, have considerable detractors who scoff at its seeming inability to excel in anything outside of its monopoly operating system and suite of Office products.
So are the various back office products for large corporates.
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But music, electronics, and office products also earn high scores, and nine other categories, from cars to specialty apparel, have online prospects that earn them a moderately favorable rating.
The premise: Buy up lots of small companies in a fragmented business--such as used cars, funeral homes, office products, food distribution and medical diagnostics--then purchase raw materials in bulk to cut costs.
The company offers its customers an array of portable storage and office products in varying lengths and widths with differentiated features such as patented locking systems, premium doors, electrical wiring and shelving.
In the past 12 years since he became CEO the company has lost precious market share of its browser and Office products and watched companies like Apple and Google eat into its Windows monopoly.
At the risk of seeming Google-centric, I have to point out that it's even possible to manage basic documents and spreadsheets online -- once proprietary to bloated Microsoft Office products -- for free with Google Docs.
Much of Microsoft's revenue growth was eaten up by an increase in spending on sales and marketing, while stronger earnings at the Windows division were partly offset by a decline in sales of the company's Office products.
Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) does, of course, have considerable detractors who scoff at its seeming inability to excel in anything outside of its monopoly operating system and suite of Office products.
There are security products from Carbonite and McAfee, a couple of office productivity products and offerings for collaboration, accounting and customer management.
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The mysterious plaintiff even sued office-products chain Staples for selling urinal deodorizer blocks and urinal screens.
Three of Mr. Saligram's six senior lieutenants quit the office-products supplier within 18 months of his arrival.
For example, if an employer can demonstrate that a typing test and skills tests using Microsoft Office software products constitute a fair sample of the content of an administrative assistant job, then the tests will probably be considered content valid.
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It has decided to divest its office and consumer products unit and focus on its core businesses.
Microsoft derives about 75% of its stock value from Windows operating system and Office suite of products, according to our estimates.
The new office will offer products to UAE-based financial intermediaries.
Richard Pazdur, head of the Office of Oncology Drug Products, has set a high bar for judging the effectiveness of cancer drugs.
Whereas Apple and Android are more for quality-of-life and casual users, the hardcore power users will migrate towards Microsoft just as they have with the Office and other business products.
However, a spokeswoman for the Post Office - where savings products are backed by the Bank of Ireland - said there had been an increase in customers since the Irish government's announcement.
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OfficeMax and its subsidiaries distribute office supplies and paper, print and document services, technology products and solutions, and office furniture to business enterprises, government offices and consumers.
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