Staples Selected as the Strategic Supplier of Office Products for the National Joint Powers Alliance® Purchasing Cooperative

NJPA Member Schools and State and Local Governments to Benefit from World’s Leading Office Products Company

Staples, MN (PRWEB) August 7, 2010

National Joint Powers Alliance® (NJPA) announced today that Staples (Nasdaq: SPLS), the world’s largest office products company, has been awarded the national contract to provide office products and classroom supplies to NJPA members. NJPA is a member-owned buying cooperative serving public and private schools, K12 through higher education; state and local governments, and non-profit organizations. Staples Advantage, which serves mid-sized and Fortune 1000 companies and institutions, will provide office products and classroom supplies to all qualified organizations including more than 30,000 NJPA Members nationwide.

“Staples has been awarded the contract because over the past five years, they have demonstrated their commitment to driving value to NJPA customers through exceptional customer service, not just meeting, but exceeding our expectations on a national scale,” commented Mike Hajek, director of contracts and marketing for NJPA. “Through Staples, we’ll help our member organizations operate at an efficiency level they would not be able to achieve on their own by providing volume price advantages to all of our members.”

“Staples is honored to be recognized as NJPA’s strategic supplier of office products,” said Neil Ringel, senior vice president, Staples Advantage. “Through our operational and customer service excellence, we’ll provide a program that makes it easy for NJPA members to get the highest quality products at optimal pricing.”

In addition to office and classroom supplies, Staples Advantage offers a host of online, customer-facing marketing tools providing technology solutions. To make ordering easy, Staples offers the award-winning online ordering tool StaplesLink.com and online ordering training.

About NJPA
The National Joint Powers Alliance® (NJPA) is a Municipal Contracting government agency established through legal statue in 1978. NJPA serves over 30,000 Members throughout the nation with competitively awarded purchasing solutions from industry-leading vendors. For more information, please visit http://www.njpacoop.org.

About Staples Advantage
Staples Advantage serves mid-sized companies, institutions and Fortune 1000 companies. Staples Advantage works collaboratively with its customers enabling procurement professionals to efficiently manage office products and services programs with low total delivered cost. Staples Contract has been certified by J.D. Power and Associates for delivering “An Outstanding Customer Service Experience” for five consecutive years. More information is available at http://www.staplescontract.com.

About Staples
Staples, the world’s largest office products company, is committed to making it easy for customers to buy a wide range of office products and services. Our broad selection of office supplies, electronics, technology and office furniture as well as business services, including computer repair and copying and printing, helps our customers run their offices efficiently. With 2009 sales of $24 billion and 91,000 associates worldwide, Staples operates in 26 countries throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia serving businesses of all sizes and consumers. Staples invented the office superstore concept in 1986 and today ranks second worldwide in e-commerce sales. The company is headquartered outside Boston. More information about Staples (Nasdaq: SPLS) is available at http://www.staples.com/media.

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