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Living Values

2007 Corporate Social Responsibility Report

 

Report and Corporate Profiles

 

Values, Mission and Governance

Integrity & Accountability, Think Company & Customer First, Teamwork & Trust, Focus & Discipline, and Sense of Urgency. In living these five Core Values, each of our approximately 36,000 associates throughout the world helps fulfill the simple but challenging commitment that propels everything we do at OfficeMax Incorporated:

The OfficeMax Mission: Help our customers do their best work.

The pursuit of this mission is governed by the OfficeMax Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (Code), and the OfficeMax Corporate Governance Guidelines.

The Code sets forth the ethical and legal guidelines to which all officers, employees, associates and agents of OfficeMax and of each of our subsidiaries and other companies that we control throughout the world, must subscribe.

The Corporate Governance Guidelines provide detailed direction in the areas of board of director responsibilities, board composition, board operation, committee matters, leadership development, and other company policies. See Appendix A: Corporate Governance for more detailed information on these and other governing principles at OfficeMax.

Business Snapshot
OfficeMax net revenuesHeadquartered in Naperville, Illinois, United States, OfficeMax is a leader in both business-to-business office products solutions and retail office products.

OfficeMax is a publicly traded company (NYSE: OMX) with more than $9 billion in annual sales and approximately 36,000 associates worldwide. We serve our customers through direct sales, e-commerce, catalogs and retail stores via two primary business segments: OfficeMax Contract and OfficeMax Retail. Each of these business segments accounts for roughly half of our revenues, both worldwide and in our U.S. Operations.

Substantially all the products we sell are purchased from outside manufacturers or from industry wholesalers, except office papers. We purchase office papers primarily from Boise Inc, under a 12-year paper supply contract entered into at the time of the sale of the company’s production capacities after the merger of Boise Cascade and OfficeMax. See OfficeMax’s Form 10-K for fiscal year 2007 for more information.