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PART I
ITEM 1. BUSINESS
As used in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 26, 2009, the
terms ‘‘OfficeMax,’’ the ‘‘Company,’’ ‘‘we’’ and ‘‘our’’ refer to OfficeMax Incorporated and its
consolidated subsidiaries and predecessors. Our Securities and Exchange Commission (‘‘SEC’’)
filings, which include this Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current
Reports on Form 8-K and all related amendments to those reports, are available free of charge on
our website at www.officemax.com and can be found by clicking on’’Investor Relations’’ under the
‘‘About OfficeMax’’ heading and then on ‘‘SEC filings.’’ Our SEC filings are available as soon as
reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the SEC.
General Overview
OfficeMax is a leader in both business-to-business and retail office products distribution. We
provide office supplies and paper, print and document services, technology products and solutions
and office furniture to large, medium and small businesses, government offices and consumers.
OfficeMax customers are served by approximately 31,000 associates through direct sales, catalogs,
the Internet and retail stores. Our common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the
ticker symbol OMX, and our corporate headquarters is in Naperville, Illinois.
OfficeMax Incorporated (formerly Boise Cascade Corporation) was organized as Boise Payette
Lumber Company of Delaware, a Delaware corporation, in 1931 as a successor to an Idaho
corporation formed in 1913. In 1957, the Company’s name was changed to Boise Cascade
Corporation. On December 9, 2003, Boise Cascade Corporation acquired 100% of the voting
securities of OfficeMax, Inc. That acquisition more than doubled the size of our office products
distribution business and expanded that business into the U.S. retail channel. In connection with the
sale of our paper, forest products and timberland assets described below, the Company’s name
was changed from Boise Cascade Corporation to OfficeMax Incorporated, and the names of our
office products segments were changed from Boise Office Solutions, Contract and Boise Office
Solutions, Retail to OfficeMax, Contract and OfficeMax, Retail. The Boise Cascade Corporation and
Boise Office Solutions names were used in documents furnished to or filed with the SEC prior to
the sale of our paper, forest products and timberland assets.
On October 29, 2004, we sold our paper, forest products and timberland assets to affiliates of
Boise Cascade, L.L.C., a new company formed by Madison Dearborn Partners LLC (the ‘‘Sale’’).
With the Sale, we completed the Company’s transition, begun in the mid-1990s, from a
predominately commodity manufacturing-based company to an independent office products
distribution company. On October 29, 2004, as part of the Sale, we invested $175 million in the
securities of affiliates of Boise Cascade, L.L.C. Due to restructurings conducted by those affiliates,
our investment is currently in Boise Cascade Holdings, L.L.C. (the ‘‘Boise Investment’’).
Fiscal Year
The Company’s fiscal year-end is the last Saturday in December. Due primarily to statutory
requirements, the Company’s international businesses maintain December 31 year-ends, with our
majority-owned joint venture in Mexico reporting one month in arrears. Fiscal year 2009 ended on
December 26, 2009, fiscal year 2008 ended on December 27, 2008, and fiscal year 2007 ended on
December 29, 2007. Each of the past three years has included 52 weeks for all reportable
segments and businesses.
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