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Change in Fiscal Year-End
Effective March 11, 2005, the Company amended its bylaws to make its fiscal year-end the last
Saturday in December. Prior to this change, all of the Company’s businesses except for our U.S.
retail operations had a December 31 fiscal year-end. Due primarily to statutory requirements, the
Company’s international businesses have maintained their December 31 year-ends. Fiscal year
2006 ended on December 30, 2006; fiscal year 2007 ended on December 29, 2007 and fiscal year
2008 ended on December 27, 2008. Each of the past three years has included 52 weeks for all
reportable segments and businesses.
OfficeMax, Contract
We distribute a broad line of items for the office, including office supplies and paper,
technology products and solutions and office furniture through our OfficeMax, Contract segment.
OfficeMax, Contract sells directly to large corporate and government offices, as well as to small and
medium-sized offices in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. This segment
markets and sells through field salespeople, outbound telesales, catalogs, the Internet and,
primarily in foreign markets, through office products stores. Substantially all products sold by this
segment are purchased from outside manufacturers or from industry wholesalers, except office
papers. We purchase office papers primarily from the paper operations of Boise Cascade, L.L.C.,
under a 12-year paper supply contract entered into at the time of the Sale. (See ‘‘Note 16.
Commitments and Guarantees’’, of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in ‘‘Item 8.
Financial Statements and Supplementary Data’’ of this Form 10-K for additional information related
to the paper supply contract.)
As of January 24, 2009, OfficeMax, Contract operated 47 distribution centers and 6 customer
service and outbound telesales centers. OfficeMax, Contract also operated 60 office products stores
in Canada, Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand.
OfficeMax, Contract sales for 2008, 2007 and 2006 were $4.3 billion, $4.8 billion and
$4.7 billion, respectively.
OfficeMax, Retail
OfficeMax, Retail is a retail distributor of office supplies and paper, print and document
services, technology products and solutions and office furniture. Our retail segment has operations
in the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Our retail office supply stores feature
OfficeMax ImPress, an in-store module devoted to print-for-pay and related services. Our retail
segment also operates office products stores in Mexico through a 51% owned joint venture.
Substantially all products sold by this segment are purchased from outside manufacturers or from
industry wholesalers, except office papers. As described above, we purchase office papers primarily
from the paper operations of Boise Cascade, L.L.C., under a 12-year paper supply contract we
entered into at the time of the Sale.
As of January 24, 2009, our Retail segment operated 1,024 stores in the U.S. and Mexico, three
large distribution centers in the U.S., and two small distribution centers in Mexico. Each store offers
approximately 10,500 stock keeping units (SKUs) of name-brand and OfficeMax private-branded
merchandise and a variety of business services targeted at serving the small business customer,
including OfficeMax ImPress. In addition to our in-store ImPress capabilities, our Retail segment
operated six OfficeMax ImPress print on demand facilities with enhanced fulfillment capabilities as
of January 24, 2009. These 8,000 square foot operations are located within some of our contract
distribution centers, and serve the print and document needs of our large contract customers in
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