Store Showcases New Interior Design With Easy Access to Office and School
Supplies and Copy/Print Center
ITASCA, Ill., June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- OfficeMax(R), one of the nation's
largest office supply retailers, will celebrate the grand opening of its new
Bayamon, Puerto Rico superstore on Sunday, June 13. The 18,000-square-foot
OfficeMax store located at PR 167 Avenue Las Cumbres; Highway 199 in the
Rexville Towne Center provides a one-stop shop for all office-related needs.
The store will employ 30 full- and part-time associates and is the ninth
OfficeMax store to open in Puerto Rico.
The first 100 customers in the store on June 13 and 14 will receive free
gift bags filled with store merchandise. Radio station WZNT-FM will broadcast
live from the store on Monday, June 14 from noon until 2 p.m. The station will
have giveaways and live call-ins. From June 13-19, in-store customers will be
able to see product demonstrations by Hewlett Packard. In addition, Lexmark
will demonstrate products from June 21-26.
"We appreciate the outstanding support of our customers who have made it
possible to open our ninth store in Puerto Rico," Gary J. Peterson, president
& COO of OfficeMax, said of the store opening. "We are pleased to continue
bringing our relentless customer focus, extraordinary product selection and
total office solutions to consumers, businesses and organizations."
The OfficeMax superstore features comprehensive services and a new store
design to help customers find what they need quickly and easily, including:
-- CopyMax(SM) full-service copy and print center, offering digital
printing, color copying and desktop publishing.
-- FurnitureMax(SM), 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(TM), 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 9 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. OfficeMax has named
Elias Muniz 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 website
at http://www.bc.com .
OfficeMax Contact Media Contact
Bill Bonner Cari Trayner, Bader Rutter & Associates
630 438 8584 262 784 7200
SOURCE OfficeMax
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CONTACT:
Bill Bonner of OfficeMax, +1-630-438-8584;
Cari Trayner of Bader Rutter & Associates, +1-262-784-7200
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