Store Showcases New Interior Design With Easy Access to Office, School
Supplies and Copy/Print Center
ITASCA, Ill., April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- OfficeMax(R), one of the nation's
largest office supply retailers, will celebrate the grand opening of its new
St. Louis-area superstore on Sunday, May 2. The 20,000-square-foot OfficeMax
store located at 4617 Chippewa Street in the new Southtown Centre provides a
one-stop shop for all office-related needs. OfficeMax is one of the first two
businesses to open in the new shopping center. The store will employ 40 full-
and part-time associates.
The first 100 customers in the store on May 2 and Monday, May 3 will
receive free gift bags filled with store merchandise. In addition, prize
drawings for movie passes and St. Louis Cardinals tickets, courtesy of
OfficeMax, KSHE-FM and the St. Louis Post Dispatch, will be held throughout
the day and complimentary refreshments provided. KSHE-FM will broadcast live
on May 2 from noon until 2 p.m. In-store customers will be able to see product
demos from Hewlett-Packard and Sanford.
"We are pleased to open our 14th store in the St. Louis-metro area and to
continue bringing our relentless customer focus, extraordinary product
selection and total office solutions to consumers, businesses and
organizations," Gary J. Peterson, president & COO of OfficeMax, said of the
store opening.
The OfficeMax superstore features comprehensive services and a new store
design to help customers find what they need quickly and easily, including:
-- CopyMax full-service copy and print center, offering digital
printing, color copying and desktop publishing
-- FurnitureMax, featuring a wide variety of ready-to-assemble office
furniture and a design assistance center
-- New store interior design, more product signage and lower sight
lines, allowing shoppers to see where they want to go as they enter
the store
-- Products arranged by categories, making browsing easier
-- MaxInstall, providing professional computer installation service
Customers will find that OfficeMax employees are outfitted with wireless
headsets and can answer questions about products or services, thanks to direct
communication with information resources. OfficeMax calls this "boundless
service" -- providing faster and better customer service without departmental
boundaries.
The store will be open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday, from
9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday. OfficeMax has named
David Bragg as the store's general manager.
About Boise Office Solutions and OfficeMax
Boise Office Solutions, a leader in business-to-business office product
solutions, has combined with OfficeMax, a leading office products retailer, to
provide office supplies, technology products and solutions, paper, and
furniture to large, medium, and small businesses and consumers. The combined
business serves all customers through direct sales, catalogs, Internet, and
nearly 1,000 superstores. Combined, the business had revenues of $8.3 billion
in 2003, more than 40,000 employees, and more than 1,000 retail outlets. Boise
Office Solutions is a division of Boise Cascade Corporation (NYSE: BCC).
About Boise Cascade Corporation
Boise, headquartered in Boise, Idaho, provides solutions to help customers
work more efficiently, build more effectively, and create new ways to meet
business challenges. We own or control more than 2 million acres of
timberland, primarily in the United States, to support our manufacturing
operations. Boise had sales of $8.2 billion in 2003. Visit the Boise Web site
at http://www.bc.com .
OfficeMax Contact Media Contact
Bill Bonner Cari Trayner, Bader Rutter & Associates
630 438 8584 262 784 7200
SOURCE Boise Office Solutions; OfficeMax
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Related links:
http://www.boiseoffice.com
http://www.bc.com
Company News On-Call:
http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/115342.html
CONTACT:
Bill Bonner of OfficeMax, +1-630-438-8584, or
Cari Trayner of Bader Rutter & Associates, +1-262-784-7200
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