The proposed $6.3 billion merger of Staples and Office Depot is kaput. Staples dropped its acquisition plans last night after a U.S. district court judge granted the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) ...

Activist investment firm Starboard Value LP called for a merger between office supply companies Staples Inc. and Office Depot Inc. in a letter Tuesday. The investor bought a stake in Staples and ...

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. & BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Staples and Office Depot today announced an agreement to sell more than $550 million in large corporate contract business and related assets to ...

Staples’ $6.3 billion plan to buy rival office supplies chain Office Depot has hit a stumbling block. The Federal Trade Commission has filed an antitrust lawsuit that aims to block the acquisition, on ...

It was a grand case of “I told you so.” More than two years after federal regulators succeeded in blocking the merger of Staples and Office Depot, their management teams’ unheeded warnings of a retail ...

NEW YORK (AP) — There are few places where evolving technology has been more disruptive than in the work place, which played out again Wednesday as Staples announced it would spend about $6 billion to ...

NEW YORK - The rapidly changing tools of the workplace and the way we shop has led to another major consolidation in the retail office supply business as Staples (SPLS) announced the $6 billion ...

Staples is looking to purchase competitor Office Depot – again. On Monday, Staples sent Office Depot's board of directors a proposal to acquire "100% of the issued and outstanding common stock" of the ...

Office-supply chain Staples agreed to buy its sole remaining competitor, Office Depot, in a $6.3 billion-deal that would create one mega-office-supply chain. But fears of anti-trust opposition sent ...

NEW YORK - There are few places where evolving technology has been more disruptive than in the work place, which played out again Wednesday as Staples announced it would spend about $6 billion to buy ...

Eighteen years after first attempting a merger, Staples and Office Depot are finally getting their wish: they are combining to form one giant office supply chain. The two companies -- whose shares ...

The rapidly changing tools of the workplace and the way we shop has led to another major consolidation in the retail office supply business as Staples announced Wednesday the $6.3-billion acquisition ...