Boise Office Solutions Is Only Vendor to Receive Perfect Score in JWOD
Evaluation for Outstanding Distributor
ITASCA, Ill., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The Committee that runs the federal
Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD) Program to create jobs and training opportunities
for people who are blind or have severe disabilities has named Boise(R) Office
Solutions its Top Seller among commercial vendors for the second consecutive
year. JWOD also recognized the office products retailer as an Outstanding
Distributor for the sixth year in a row.
The JWOD program generates jobs for individuals who are blind or severely
disabled through federal government purchases of certain products and services
provided by non-profit agencies that employ blind and severely disabled
persons. The Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled named Boise Office Solutions the JWOD Top Seller of 2003 for selling
more JWOD products than any other authorized distributor. Boise Office
Solutions also received the JWOD Top Seller distinction in 2002, the first
year the committee awarded the recognition.
Boise Office Solutions received a perfect score -- 115 out of 115 points
-- from JWOD during the committee's annual evaluations of authorized federal
JWOD distributors. Distributors were rated for their sales of JWOD products,
meeting mutually agreed upon sales objectives, timely submissions of sales
reports, and for replacing orders of commercial items with similar JWOD
products.
Boise Office Solutions also received extra merit for documenting its
marketing efforts to support JWOD sales, for placing JWOD orders
electronically, and for its ability to either employ people who are blind or
severely disabled, or to contract or subcontract with JWOD non-profit
agencies.
"Boise Office Solutions has a long history of working with JWOD to help
grow employment opportunities for the blind and physically challenged
community by marketing and selling JWOD products," said Chris Milliken,
division president and CEO of Boise Office Solutions and its retail arm,
OfficeMax. "It is gratifying to receive this recognition for supporting
important socio-economic programs such as JWOD."
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 .
Boise Office Solutions Contact: Media Contact:
Bill Bonner Nicole Miller, Bader Rutter & Associates
630 438 8584 262 784 7200
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CONTACT:
Bill Bonner of Boise Office Solutions,
+1-630-438-8584, or Nicole Miller of Bader Rutter & Associates,
+1-262-784-7200
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