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OfficeMax to Open New Store in Apex, North Carolina

    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
Apex, N.C. superstore on Sunday, October 24. The 22,000-square-foot OfficeMax
store located at 1021 Beaver Creek Commons Drive, in the Beaver Creek Commons
Shopping Center, provides a one-stop shop for all office-related needs. The
store will employ approximately 25 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 WTRG-FM will broadcast live from the store from noon
to 2 p.m. on October 24 and will give away prizes.
    "We are pleased to open a seventh store in the growing Apex 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 quickly 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
Bert Joines as the store's general manager. The store's phone number is
919-387-6670.

    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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