Corporate Express
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company snapshot
Corporate Express was a regional office supplies retailer. The company grew through the acquisition of products and its strategic procurement services and was purchased in 1999 by Buhrmann.After an IPO in 2002, Corporate Express extended its product lines and geographic coverage. It sold its paper business to PaperlinX in 2003 and refocused on its office supplies business, which Staples acquired in 2008.