Analysts say the merger, which would combine the second and third largest office-supplies retailers into a more profitable, more competitive business, stands a better shot at regulatory approval than the 1997 bid by Staples to purchase Office Depot.
By creating what is commonly known as a "horizontal" marketplace, Intelisys brings together buyers from across a number of industries to purchase everything from office supplies to bed linens from an array of suppliers.
For example, you may find that the office supplies you purchase from one vendor can be found at another for half the price.
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Make sure you know your office rules before you purchase that bottle of Glenfiddich single malt for the boss.
FedEx's 2004 purchase of Kinko's, the office services firm, drew criticism, and its revenues are flat.
If that's not enough to push your bandwidth (and patience) to the limit, Microsoft's going to making the complete Office 2007 lineup available for purchase and download at the same time as well.
"If you want a vibrant community, you need a vibrant downtown, " said Mayor W. Wesley Perry, who abstained from the vote to purchase the property because he owns an office building across the street.
Equipped with what was left of the tickets, pictures of the originals and an e-mail verification of his purchase, he called Augusta's ticket office on Monday morning in hopes they'd be "gracious Southern folks" and let him and his friends attend the event.
One high-profile deal involves its purchase in late 2012 of a grade-A office and five-star hotel complex in downtown Shanghai from a distressed local developer.
Until recently office REITs confined their investing almost entirely to the purchase of buildings already standing.
The trust is using the IPO proceeds to fund the purchase of its first two assets, The Festival Walk retail and office development in Hong Kong and the Gateway Plaza office building in Beijing.
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.
It was there, in 2006, that he got a call from the office of Indra Nooyi, inviting him to lunch at PepsiCo headquarters in Purchase.
In the statement NBA Commissioner David Stern's office released Monday, the league confirmed it had received "an executed Purchase and Sale Agreement for the transfer of controlling interest" in the Kings from the Maloof family.
Outside her third-floor office, snow is piling up around the company's famed sculpture garden in Purchase, N.
He's also since filed a complaint with regulators, and on Friday, Britain's Office of Fair Trading recommended a full inquiry be held into Sky's ITV stake purchase.
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