Founded in 1986, Staples, headquartered in Fleminger, Massachusetts, is the world's leading retailer and distributor of office supplies.

The founder of Staples-Thomas Stemberg

Staples pioneered the concept of office supplies supermarket, and opened its first office supplies supermarket in Brighton, Massachusetts, USA on May 1986.

Staples has more than 2100 office supplies supermarkets and warehousing and distribution centers around the world, with a total of 79,000 employees worldwide, and its business involves 22 countries and regions. Staples provides customers with one-stop office procurement services through various sales channels, such as store retail, catalog direct mail, contract ordering and online sales (e-commerce). In 2006, Staples' global annual sales amounted to 182 billion US dollars, and in 2007, it ranked 397th in Fortune Global 500. 20 12 ranked 437th in the Fortune Global 500 list.

In 2004, Staples came to China, the most potential office supplies market in the world. In the same year 10, Staples China officially formed a strategic partnership with an e-commerce enterprise specializing in office supplies sales in Shanghai, and established Staples Trading Co., Ltd. Since then, Staples's headquarters has taken root in Shanghai and spread all over the country.

In China, Staples has been adhering to the business philosophy of "We make office procurement easier", and enriched the service content with the characteristics of China.

After three years' unremitting efforts, Staples operation centers in Beijing, Jiangsu and Shenzhen have been set up successively, which have penetrated all the economic centers in China and always led the office supplies market in China.

In the past 2007, Staples made bold innovations and forge ahead: this year, Staples set up a contract enterprise customer department to serve large corporate customers; In April, it officially became the exclusive supplier of office furniture for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. In May, an agreement was reached with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and American Express Company to issue the first joint corporate card with the American Express logo in China-"Peony Staples American Express Business Card"; 10, joined hands with UPS to open Staples UPSExpress special store in Beijing; 1 1 month, staples opened its first office furniture center in Shanghai.

Staples is introducing its office service concept, which combines advanced technology, environmental protection spirit and humanistic care, into China, so that enterprises, governments and individual users can fully experience the pleasure of purchasing office supplies. With advanced supply chain management and global procurement system, Staples is committed to creating a procurement platform for more than 10,000 kinds of commodities such as office stationery, office consumables, office equipment, office furniture and business gifts for our customers, and strives to create the most perfect office supplies supply, sales and service system in China.

In April 2007, Staples Trading Co., Ltd. won the bid to become the exclusive supplier of office furniture for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games through heavy bidding and strict inspection by the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee. By the opening of the Olympic Games in August 2008, Staples * * * has provided/kloc-0.5 million pieces of high-quality and environmentally-friendly office furniture for all competition and non-competition venues, Olympic Village and security center of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. And provided a set of Ming bamboo furniture for IOC President Rogge's office in Beijing Hotel, which was highly praised by President Rogge.