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Staples Canada ULC, operating as Staples ( Bureau en Gros in Quebec ), [ 1] is a Canadian retail sales company owned by Sycamore Partners. [ 2] Staples was founded by Leo Kahn [ 3] and Thomas G. Stemberg. [ 4] Since 2017, Staples Canada has operated independently from Staples' U.S. retail and U.S. business-to-business (B2B) operations.
staples.com. Staples's logo from 1998 to 2019. Staples Inc. is an American office supply retail company headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts . Founded by Leo Kahn and Thomas G. Stemberg, the company opened its first store in Brighton, Massachusetts on May 1, 1986. [ 5] By 1996, it had reached the Fortune 500, and it later acquired the ...
Staples Business Advantage is the contract division of Staples Inc., providing a membership program for office products, technology products, facilities supplies and breakroom supplies to businesses and institutions. Established in 1993 as Staples Contract and Commercial, the division was rebranded as Staples National Advantage and Staples ...
Harold Innis is considered the leading founder of a Canadian school of economic thought known as the staples theory. It holds that Canada's culture, political history and economy have been decisively shaped by the exploitation and export of a series of "staples" such as fur, fish, wood, wheat, mined metals and fossil fuels. [7]
Quill Corporation is an American office supply retailer, founded in 1956, and headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois. A wholly owned subsidiary of Staples, Quill serves more than one million small and mid-sized U.S. business customers, [1] with access to over one million assorted products. While over 70% of sales are conducted online, [2] it ...
Staples thesis. In economic development, the staples thesis is a theory of export-led growth. The theory "has its origins in research into Canadian social, political, and economic history carried out in Canadian universities...by members of what were then known as departments of political economy." From these groups of researchers, "the two ...
Office supply retailing is the commercial trade of stationery and other office supplies. An office supply retailer, stationer, stationery retailer or business solutions retailer sells things typically found in an office or classroom, such as computers, monitors, printers, paper writing instruments, books, desks, office chairs and lamps, as well ...
Target Canada Co. was the Canadian subsidiary of the Target Corporation, the eighth-largest retailer in the United States. Formerly headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, the subsidiary formed with the acquisition of Zellers store leases from the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in January 2011. Target Canada opened its first store in March 2013, and ...