Store Showcases New Interior Design With Easy Access to Office, School
Supplies and Copy/Print Center
ITASCA, Ill., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- OfficeMax(R), one of the nation's
largest office supply retailers, will celebrate the grand opening of its new
Florissant, Mo. superstore on Sunday, October 24. The 22,000-square-foot
OfficeMax store located at 13923 New Halls Ferry Road, in the Shoppes at Cross
Keys shopping center, provides a one-stop shop for all office-related needs.
The store will employ 30 full- and part-time associates.
The first 125 customers in the store on Sunday, October 24 and Monday,
October 25 will receive free gift bags filled with store merchandise. In
addition, radio station WVRV-FM will broadcast live from the store from noon -
2 p.m. on October 24 and will give away prizes.
"We are pleased to open our second store this year in the greater St.
Louis area and to continue bringing our relentless customer focus,
extraordinary product selection and total office solutions to consumers,
businesses and organizations," Gary J. Peterson, OfficeMax president - retail,
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:
-- Full-service copy and print center services, offering digital printing,
color copying and desktop publishing for complete business and home
needs
-- A wide variety of ready-to-assemble furniture for office and home
office needs 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
-- Professional and affordable computer networking and PC installation
services for business and home office computer users
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 6 p.m. on Sunday. OfficeMax has named
Mike Miller as the store's general manager. The store's phone number is
314-972-7491.
About OfficeMax
OfficeMax is a leader in both business-to-business office product
solutions and retail office products. OfficeMax delivers an unparalleled
customer experience -- in service, in product, in time savings, and in
value -- through a relentless focus on its customers. The company provides
office supplies and paper, technology products and solutions, and furniture to
large, medium and small businesses and consumers. OfficeMax customers are
served by more than 40,000 associates through direct sales, catalogs, Internet
and nearly 1,000 superstores. Having joined with Boise Office Solutions, the
company had pro forma revenues of $8.3 billion in 2003. OfficeMax is a
division of Boise Cascade Corporation.
About Boise Cascade Corporation
Boise (NYSE: BCC), 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's annualized first half 2004 sales were $13.9 billion. 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 OfficeMax; Boise Cascade Corporation
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CONTACT:
Bill Bonner of OfficeMax, +1-630-438-8584, or
Cari Trayner of Bader Rutter & Associates, +1-262-784-7200
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