Exchange old for new at Staples Xchange Carnival’ 09

Mumbai: February 05, 2009: Staples Office Products, a joint venture between Staples Inc. and the Future Group, today announced a first of its kind offer for consumers – ‘Staples Xchange Carnival 2009′. As a part of this novel offer, consumers can visit any Staples stores in their city and return their old laptops, desktops, monitors, printers, cameras, pen drives, hard disks, keyboards, mice and UPS systems, for which, they will be paid ‘Xchange Currency’. This currency can then be used to buy from a wide assortment of tech products, stationery and office furniture available at the Staples stores. Staples Xchange Carnival will be on from January 24 – February 15, 2009.

The offer is available at the Staples stores at Orchid City Centre Mall at Mumbai Central and Inorbit Mall at Vashi, Navi-Mumbai.

About Staples:

Staples is the world’s largest office products company with operations in 27 countries and turnover of USD 30 billion. Staples Future Office Products is a joint venture between Staples Inc., the world’s largest office products company and Future Group, which owns Pantaloon Retail, India’s largest retail company. Staples has 8 stand-alone and 16 shop-in-shop stores in Bangalore, Noida, Mumbai and Pune with over 8000 skus in technology, stationery and office furniture. Staples Offices Products aims to be the largest office products company in India across Retail, Delivery and Online channel.

The Staples ‘Delivery’ business is aimed at large Indian businesses, spanning multiple locations, requiring seamless ordering & fulfillment and savings through consolidated buying & improved consumption information. The Staples ‘Retail’ business is a chain of office superstores providing the entire gamut of office products under one roof at everyday low prices small businesses, professionals, students and consumers.