GLG News by Office Supply Companies Experts

In a highly competitive sector, Staples has once again stepped out of the box and is delivering yet another dose of differentiation to distance themselves from their rivals in both the OSS and CE sectors. With the skyrocketing growth of technology hardware tools fueling business and consumer home office...

Soon completing a difficult turnaround year fought with great success and reversal of fortune on the P/L side through numerous cost-cutting, austerity, and operational improvements, OfficeMax is poised to continue profitability increases in FY 2007. On the plus side, they have compiled 3 successive...

Being the CEO/Chairman of one company and joining the Board of Directors of another is neither rare nor uncommon in the landscape of America's businesses. However, what makes this event truly unique for me is that when I thought Staples had just about nailed down every opportunity to grow and continue...

The figures are in and online shopping grew an amazing 26% year over year. Early analyst figures were fairly accurate in predicting 25% growth estimates based mainly on gas prices, housing and the economy. Winners in the multi channel sector included Sears, JC Penney, Best Buy, Old Navy, and Target,...

As Staples marches forward with reducing its environmental footprint, look for more retailers to hop aboard the "green train" in the forseeable future. As the 2007 Business models for mega retailers begin to appear, it should not come as any surprise to find how many of them will consist of internal...

I don't anticipate a complete turnaround in share price of Circuit City stock in Q4 despite the optimism from CEO Phil Schoonover of "staying the course" in the long term growth strategy. I do agree with the statement that their outlook into 2007 is probably more achievable than that of Best Buy but the...

 Key Implications1)Black Friday has created a self fulfilling prophecy, Catch 22, scenario for retailers with solid topline revenues but diminished profitability. The shape of consumerism and retail shopping has forever been changed(scarred?) in the quest for an early jump start...

Hardly a week goes by that does not contain news of ever changing events at the world's largest home improvement chain, Home Depot. Recent news includes additions to the assortment which include TV's in all stores; candy and gum in over 100 test stores; doubling the sku count over LY in holiday decor...

In what could well be the foretelling of the classic "good news/bad news" story for the retail sector at year end, this article speaks positively of the November sales increases across various channels.Highly promotional activities and price slashing in apparel and consumer electronics which began Black...

Despite the slump in share price in recent weeks, don't look for a PE takeover of Home Depot to occur in the near term even with the almost 10% rise in share price over the past 2 weeks. Based partly on this, I don't see a takeover happening due to the following:1)CEO Bob Nardelli has already placed...