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Staples Makes "Going Green" Easy this Back-to-School Season
Staples, Inc., the world's largest office products company and top retail destination for back to school, is helping students find "green" products this back-to-school season with a wide variety of school supplies that contain recycled content.
Grammy® Winning Singer-Songwriter, Ciara, Helps Teens Give Back at 2nd Annual Staples/Do Something 101 Volunteer Event
NEW YORK – Aug. 4, 2009 – Grammy® Winning singer-songwriter Ciara shared the spotlight with youth volunteers today in a national effort to empower teens to give back to the community. Ciara, joined by Chaske Spencer of Twilight and singer Leah Renee, worked side-by-side with volunteers during the 2nd Annual Staples/Do Something 101 national school supply drive event at The Children's Aid Society Dunlevy Milbank Boys & Girls Club in New York. The group filled 5,000 bags with notebooks, calculators, binders and other back-to-school essentials, which will be donated to local students in need in time for the upcoming school year.
Staples Offers Great Deals on the Latest Tech Products and Services for Back to School
Back to school shopping no longer just means pencils and paper. Families of school children and college students expect to spend $18.3 billion on electronics this year – including laptops, home computers and cell phones – accounting for 38 percent of the $47.5 billion that will be spent on all school supplies, according to National Retail Federation data. Staples, Inc.
Staples Declares the Most Wonderful Time of the Year Starts Today
Staples Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS), the world's largest office products company, marked the start of the back-to-school shopping season today by reducing prices on 250 school supplies; bringing back the Most Wonderful Time of the Year commercial; and selecting one lucky school to kick off the season with a free shopping spree.
Staples Classic Commercial "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" Returns To National Television
Staples Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS), the world's largest office products company, is bringing back The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, perhaps the most well-known and loved back-to-school television commercial ever created. The spot, which first aired 15 years ago, will be broadcast on national network television tonight, to celebrate and promote today as the official launch of the back-to-school shopping season.
Staples Declares July 15 As The Official Kick-off To The Back-to-School Shopping Season and Announces The 2009 Top Products for Back to School
Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS), The world's largest office products company and top retail destination for back to school, today announced July 15 as the official start to the 2009 back-to-school shopping season. For the second year, Staples will kick-off the season and provide shoppers with a clear roadmap of where and when to find the best products and deals this season.
Grammy® Winning Singer-Songwriter, Ciara, Teams Up with DoSomething.org and Staples in 2nd Annual National School Supply Drive
As part of Do Something 101 (www.dosomething101.org), Ciara is encouraging teens to make a difference this summer by collecting school supplies and dropping them off at their nearest Staples store, from July through September. In addition, Staples customers can get involved by donating $1 at any Staples store with 100 percent of the proceeds benefiting local teens in need. Each Staples store is matched to a local educational and not-for-profit organization serving disadvantaged youth, and DoSomething.org and Staples will ensure that all the donations get to these partners just in time to head back to school.
About Staples
Staples, the world's largest office products company, is committed to making it easy for customers to buy a wide range of office products, including supplies, technology, furniture, and business services. With 2008 sales of $23 billion and 91,000 associates worldwide, Staples serves businesses of all sizes and consumers in 27 countries throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. In July 2008, Staples acquired Corporate Express, one of the world's leading suppliers of office products to businesses and institutions. Staples invented the office superstore concept in 1986 and is headquartered outside Boston. More information about Staples (Nasdaq: SPLS) is available at www.staples.com.
