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2011 Annual Report Notice of Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement We bring easy to your office. Staples is the world’s largest office products company and y a trusted source for office solutions. The company proy Revenue Mix2 2008 2007 2009 North American Delivery North American Retail vides products, services and expertise in office supplies, copy & print, technology, facilities and breakroom, and furniture. Staples invented the office superstore concept in 1986 and has annua sales Revenues
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constantly being told about companies competing globally. These stories might include mergers of U.S. and international companies, such as Daimler-Benz and Chrysler a few years ago. Or they might highlight companies expanding into other markets, such as Starbucks in Asia or Wal-Mart in Mexico. Or the stories might focus on international companies gaining dominance here in the United States, such as Sony or Toyota. “No matter what kind business you run, no matter what size you are, you’re suddenly competing
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Marketing Management, Millenium Edition Philip Kotler Custom Edition for University of Phoenix Excerpts taken from: A Framework for Marketing Management, by Philip Kotler Copyright © 2001by Prentice-Hall, Inc. A Pearson Education Company Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 Marketing Management Millenium Edition, Tenth Edition, by Philip Kotler Copyright © 2000 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without permission
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aligned with the CUSTOMER, prepared for GROWTH MACY’S, INC. 2014 ANNUAL REPORT Macy’s, Inc. is one of the nation’s premier omnichannel retailers, with fiscal 2014 sales of $28.1 billion. As of March 31, 2015, the company operates about 885 stores in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico under the names of Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, Bloomingdale’s Outlet and Bluemercury, as well as the macys.com, bloomingdales.com and bluemercury.com websites. Bloomingdale’s
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