| A very popular resource for purchasing office | | | | The software was designed for use in American |
| supplies such as computers, furniture, | | | | retailing to provide real-time, integrated |
| hardware and software in addition to copy and | | | | information throughout their organization. |
| print services and much, much more is a store | | | | Also during 2000, OfficeMax combined |
| you've undoubtedly heard of called OfficeMax. | | | | eCommerce business, catalog operations and |
| OfficeMax came onto the retail scene in 1988 | | | | its commercial sales groups into what they |
| and has since grown from a single outlet to | | | | now call their / Direct Business Unit. |
| one largest office products superstore chains | | | | |
| in the country. | | | | OfficeMax also gives back to the communities |
| | | | that helped them achieve their success. In |
| OfficeMax actually materialized into the | | | | 2000, The OfficeMax Charitable Foundation was |
| largest American office products superstore | | | | established to donate more than $300,000 for |
| in operation in terms of the number of stores | | | | worthwhile causes. One foundation the company |
| they opened and their vast geographical | | | | sponsored was a National Kids N Need Resource |
| coverage. In January 1997, OfficeMax set a | | | | Center Cleveland, Ohio which was the first of |
| national record by exceeding $3 billion in | | | | its kind. |
| sales making them the fourth company in | | | | |
| United States history ever to achieve that | | | | Through its partnerships with companies like |
| amount of success in less than nine years. | | | | Hewlett Packard and introductions of its |
| | | | FurnitureMax, CopyMax and TechMax ventures, |
| It all began on April 1, 1988 in Cleveland, | | | | OfficeMax provides the public with complete, |
| Ohio when OfficeMax was founded by Michael | | | | state-of-the-art services through all of its |
| Feuer, its Chairman and Chief Executive | | | | associations with a supply chain network and |
| Officer, along with seven other of the | | | | high-tech computer system. Presently, you can |
| company's associates. The first store opened | | | | find an OfficeMax store just about anywhere |
| its doors to the public in Cleveland on July | | | | you travel in the United States. They have |
| 5th of the same year and by the end of that | | | | over 900 convenient locations throughout |
| year, there were a total of three stores in | | | | America which include operations in Puerto |
| the suburban Cleveland area. | | | | Rico and the Virgin Islands. In 1996, they |
| | | | opened their first international store in |
| The year 2000 was huge for OfficeMax because | | | | Mexico and by the year 2000, a total of 27 |
| during that time, the company implemented | | | | OfficeMax (OfficeMax de Mexico) stores were |
| their Enterprise Resource Planning software | | | | open for business there. |
| which is the largest program of this type. | | | | |