ECONOFFICE PRODUCTS & SUPPLIES PARTNERS WITH FEDERAL CUSTOMERS TO MAKE A FINANCIAL DONATION TO VICTIMS OF HURRICANE KATRINA
September 23, 2005 – Oldsmar, FL – EconOffice Products and Supplies, a fully online office product and supply partner to Federal and corporate customers, announced today they have provided a donation to the American Red Cross in St. Petersburg to hurricane Katrina victims in the amount of $5,722.62.
The EconOffice donation equaled five percent of total purchases from Federal customers through the GSA Advantage and DoD E-Mall Web sites during the week of Monday, September 2nd through Friday, September 9th.
“With the tragedies mounting from the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, we felt drawn to provide whatever assistance we could for the victims left in the wake of this natural disaster,” said Jean McNally, President of EconOffice Products & Supplies. “We realize our Federal customers have many options when purchasing office products and supplies. It’s gratifying to see our customers, in partnership with us, supporting a cause that affects the entire country.”
EconOffice Products and Supplies was awarded a 5-year GSA contract in 2004. The company is currently the 4th largest supplies of office products and supplies to the Federal government in terms of total orders. Federal customers of EconOffice include MacDill Air Force Base, FEMA and the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security.
EconOffice Products & Supplies, Inc., the 2005 Upper Tampa Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce Medium Business of the Year, is a fully online office product and supply partner servicing corporate and federal government customers. The company’s Econ 1to1 service promise ensures all customers receive the direct, interpersonal service they require to realize greater efficiencies in their daily business operations. To find out more information or order office products, visit www.econ121.com or call (877) ECON121 (877-326-6121).
Oldsmar, FL – November 1, 2005 – EconOffice Products and Supplies, a fully online office product and supply partner to federal and corporate customers, announced today that Alltel has donated $21,000 worth of school supplies through the company’s eZ-Pickup Program (www.ez-pickup.org). Donations made through the eZ-Pickup Program are directed to A Gift for Teaching of Tampa serving Title-I schools in
The Alltel donation includes 1,300 backpacks filled with school supplies, including an Alltel t-shirt, pen, pencils, notebook, stretchy flyer and calculator. Alltel has donated approximately 10,000 backpacks nationwide. Aside from
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The eZ-Pickup Program is the first program to be launched as part of the company’s Econ for Education initiative, in partnership with the company’s integrated marketing agency of record, Mind Inventions, LLC. Corporations are able to schedule the pick up of their surplus office products and supplies through a specially created Web page. By going to www.eZ-Pickup.org and filling out a simple form, EconOffice will arrange pickups through their normal delivery schedule to businesses throughout the greater
EconOffice Products & Supplies, Inc., a Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce 2005 Small Business of the Year finalist and winner of the Upper Tampa Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce Medium Business of the Year is a fully online office product and supply partner servicing federal and corporate customers. The company’s Econ 1to1 strategic service promise ensures all customers receive the direct, interpersonal service they require to realize greater efficiencies in their purchasing operations. To find out more information or order office products, visit www.econoffice.com or call toll-free (877) ECON121.
ECONOFFICE PRODUCTS & SUPPLIES, INC ANNOUNCED AS MEDIUM BUSINESS OF THE YEAR BY THE UPPER TAMPA BAY CHAMBER
Small, Medium and Large Business of the Year Winners Move on to Compete for the North Pinellas Business of the Year Award
May 17, 2005 – Oldsmar, FL – The Upper Tampa Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce recognized the small, medium and large Businesses of the Year at their monthly luncheon April 13th. Small businesses are identified by having less than $1M, medium businesses by having between $1 and $5M and large businesses by having over $5M in gross revenue. The award luncheon, now passing its fifth year, announced EconOffice Products & Supplies, Inc. as the 2005 Medium Business of the Year.
EconOffice was chosen as Medium Business of the Year because, as stated by Robert Stroller, a prior winner and judge, “EconOffice has displayed extraordinary growth of revenues increasing over 772% throughout the last three years. Their focus on personal customer service, increasing use of the internet for sales, shipping efficiencies that permit lower inventories and customer costs and successful pursuit of government contracts all add up to an outstanding business plan. Plus, their involvement in the community and commitment to their employees is excellent.” EconOffice’s involvement in the community includes youth sports, Missing Children Awareness programs and a partnership with A Gift for Teaching of Tampa.
“I am thrilled to be recognized by our local Chamber and embraced by the community,” states Jean McNally, President of EconOffice. “We at EconOffice have always prided ourselves on living our Econ 1to1 strategic service promise every day. To be acknowledged for our customer service and personal relationships makes us even more excited to grow with the Tampa Bay community at large.”
“Thanks to all our businesses stepping forward to compete and reminding us how lucky we are as a Chamber and a community to have so many outstanding business leaders, said Kevin Gartland, President of The Upper Tampa Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce. “Congratulations to all our contenders and best wishes in the North Pinellas competition.” The North Pinellas event, held in November, will be sponsored by the Pinellas County Department of Economic Development and includes the Oldsmar, Clearwater, Dunedin, Safety Harbor, Palm Harbor and Tarpon Springs Chamber members.
EconOffice Products & Supplies, Inc.
EconOffice Products & Supplies, Inc., the 2005 Upper Tampa Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce Medium Business of the Year, is a fully online office product and supply partner servicing corporate and federal government customers. The company’s Econ 1to1 service promise ensures all customers receive the direct, interpersonal service they require to realize greater efficiencies in their daily business operations. To find out more information or order office products, visit www.econ121.com or call (877) ECON121 (877-326-6121).
ECONOFFICE PRODUCTS AND SUPPLIES SUPPORTS CORPORATE GROWTH WITH NEW LEASE OF OFFICE SPACE
New space supports ongoing growth and doubles existing facilities!
June 3, 2005 – Oldsmar, FL – EconOffice Products & Supplies, a valued office product and supply partner to Federal and corporate customers, announces today the company’s signing of 5,000 square feet of office space. The new space will provide an upgrade in support of the phenomenal revenue growth that has occurred over the past three years. EconOffice officially takes over the new office space of June 1st.
“The outstanding growth we have experienced the last three years has come primarily from our Federal customers. This strong revenue foundation, coupled with our development of a superior online buying environment and direct customer service have provided EconOffice the opportunity to increase our physical capacity,” said Jean McNally President, EconOffice. “The new office space supports our continued growth by allowing for the extension of our resources and expertise to corporate customers as a valued partner in the purchasing management of office products and supplies.”
The 5,000 square feet of new office space will double EconOffice’s current facility. In addition, the space will provide the company with room to expand the corporate sales team and will provide the infrastructure for ongoing projected growth and technology support.
EconOffice Products & Supplies, Inc.
EconOffice Products & Supplies, Inc., the 2005 Upper Tampa Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce Medium Business of the Year, is an online office product and supply partner servicing corporate and federal government clients. The company’s Econ 1to1 service promise ensures all customers receive the direct, interpersonal service they require to realize greater efficiencies in their daily business operations. To find out more information or order office products, visit www.econ121.com or call (877) ECON121 (877-326-6121).
June 15, 2005 – Oldsmar, FL – EconOffice Products & Supplies, Inc., an online office supply partner to businesses operating throughout the greater Tampa Bay region, announces today the formation of the company’s Econ for Education initiative. The first program under the new initiative will be the eZ-Pickup program, made possible through a partnership with A Gift for Teaching of Tampa.
For the eZ-Pickup program, beginning immediately, corporations will be able to schedule the pick up of their surplus office products and supplies through a specially created Web site. By going to www.ezpickup.org and filling out a simple form, EconOffice will arrange pick ups through their normal delivery schedule to businesses throughout the greater Tampa Bay region. In addition, potential donors will be able to reach the pick up request form by going through A Gift for Teaching of Tampa’s Web site, www.agftoftampa.org.
“As a member of the Hillsborough County business community, we want to make sure we do our part to enhance the education opportunities for students, as they represent the future of our workforce,” said Jean McNally, President of EconOffice. “The Econ for Education initiative is an extension to the community of the direct, interpersonal service we provide our business customers through our Econ 1to1 strategic service promise. The added value we can provide schools by developing this partnership with A Gift for Teaching of Tampa will help raise the level of education for disadvantaged students.”
A Gift for Teaching of Tampa is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring children in Hillsborough County have the basic tools for learning by transferring, at no cost, the community’s surplus business supplies into the hands of teachers and school children in need. Hillsborough County is the ninth largest school district in the nation, within which 48% of the student population is economically disadvantaged. Through its Free Store for teachers, A Gift for Teaching of Tampa currently serves 59 schools that have at least 76% of students enrolled in the Federal Free and Reduced Lunch Program.
“Until now, businesses who donated products had to deliver their donations to our Tampa facility. With the eZ-Pickup program, we are confident we can experience greater corporate participation,” said Greg Landwirth, President of A Gift for Teaching of Tampa. “EconOffice’s eZ-Pickup program is a great example of corporate philanthropy; when businesses donate surplus supplies, they are working toward making a difference in the future of our community.”
EconOffice Products & Supplies, Inc.
EconOffice Products & Supplies, Inc., the 2005 Upper Tampa Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce Medium Business of the Year, is a fully online office product and supply partner servicing corporate and federal government customers. The company’s Econ 1to1 service promise ensures all customers receive the direct, interpersonal service they require to realize greater efficiencies in their daily business operations. To find out more information or order office products, visit www.econ121.com or call (877) ECON121 (877-326-6121).
Inc. Magazine Reveals Its 25th Annual List of
500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies
EconOffice Products and Supplies Inc, Ranks No. 253 on the 2006 Inc. 500 With Three-Year Sales Growth of 511%
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New York, August 23, 2006 – Inc. magazine today announced its 25th annual Inc. 500 ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. Office Supply Distributor, EconOffice Products and Supplies Inc., ranks No. 253 on the list, with three-year growth of 511 percent.
EconOffice Products & Supplies, Inc., a Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce 2005 Small Business of the Year finalist and winner of the Upper Tampa Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce Medium Business of the Year is a fully online office product and supply partner servicing federal and corporate customers. The company’s Econ 1to1 strategic service promise ensures all customers receive the direct, interpersonal service they require to realize greater efficiencies in their purchasing operations. To find out more information or order office products, visit www.econoffice.com or call toll-free (877) ECON121
The 2006 Inc. 500, as revealed in the September issue of Inc., reported the most robust bunch of companies the magazine has ever compiled, with aggregate revenue of $19.7 billion, up from $16.5 billion last year and $12.9 billion in 2000. The two largest companies on this year’s Inc. 500 are the biggest ever to make the list – No. 170 Western Refining ($3.4 billion in revenue) and No. 376 Newegg.com ($1.26 billion) – and the third and fourth companies in Inc. 500 history to crack the billion-dollar mark. In all, 14 companies topped $200 million in annual revenue, compared with 11 last year.
Most important, the 2006 Inc. 500 companies were engines of job growth, having created more than 90,000 jobs since those companies were founded.
This year’s list is the first to include businesses that started up immediately before and after September 11, 2001 – including the No. 1 company and 20 companies in the top 50 – as well as many companies that had to raise capital after the dot-com bubble burst. In total, 104 companies listed on this year’s Inc. 500 were started after 2000.
“If you want to find out which companies are going to change the world, look at the Inc. 500,” said Inc. Editor Jane Berentson. “These are the most innovative, dynamic, fast-growth companies in the nation, the ones coming up with solutions to some of our most intractable ills, creating systems that let us conduct business faster and easier, and manufacturing products we soon discover we can’t live without. The Inc. 500 list is Inc. magazine’s tribute to American business ingenuity and ambition.”
By Deborah Childress
A growing number of area companies are participating in a local education program called “Teaching Tools For Hillsborough Schools.” A program of the Hillsborough Education Foundation, it has distributed over $4.3 million in school supplies since its inception in 2000. It currently serves 75 Title-1 schools and was created to transform financial donations and surplus materials into supplies for students in schools with a high ratio of low-income families. The program helps revive students’ enthusiasm for education in the classroom. Through its “Stuff The Bus” campaign, Tampa Bay community members donate pencils, paper, crayons, scissors, glue sticks, books and other basic supplies to directly support the students who need these materials the most. EconOffice Products & Supplies, an Inc. 500 firm located in Oldsmar, supports the program by acting as its virtual bus drivers. Jean McNally, the company’s president and a board member of the program explained,” We offered to incorporate donation pick-ups and delivers into our office product and supply delivery routes in June 2005, and have been picking up donations from companies ever since. “ McNally said donations have been supplied by firms and organizations such as Sun Trust Bank, Bank Of America, Ernst and Young, Storr Office Environments, Remington College, Xerox Capital Services, The Tampa Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Tampa Downtown Partnership. "Teaching Tools for Hillsborough Schools” is welcoming new corporate supporters for the “Stuff the Bus” campaign. Help is needed by serving as a drop-off location for school supplies, or by organizing company, civic or community organization supply drives. Area executives will be contributing in the “Tools for Schools” breakfast scheduled for 7:45A.M. on August 28th at the downtown Hyatt Regency Tampa, the event is open to corporate and public attendees, with registration beginning at 7 A.M.. The emcee will be Alicia Roberts, Traffic Reporter from News Channel 8. Speakers include Ray McGraw, President of Wachovia Bank, Michael Poland, Partner of Assurance and Advisory Business Services of Ernst and Young, Andrea Zellman, Esq., of Fowler White Boggs and Barker, and MaryEllen Elia, Superintendent of Hillsborough County Public Schools. Area teachers and students will share how the teaching tools program has helped them. An “All American” breakfast, including scrambled eggs with smoked bacon, breakfast potatoes, orange juice, Starbucks coffees and various teas – and a variety of bakery goodies – will be served. The dress is business or business casual. The event is being sponsored by the Don and Erika Wallace Family Foundation, Bay Cities Bank, Yale Industries, Optimist Club, Jennifer A. Powers, P.A. and Bank Of America. Interested businesses or private parties who would like to donate supplies to “ Tools For Schools” which are picked up free of charge, can visit the program’s website at www.ez-pickup.org.
EconOffice Products & Supplies, Inc., a Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce 2005 Small Business of the Year finalist and winner of the Upper Tampa Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce Medium Business of the Year is a fully online office product and supply partner servicing federal and corporate customers. The company’s Econ 1to1 strategic service promise ensures all customers receive the direct, interpersonal service they require to realize greater efficiencies in their purchasing operations. To find out more information or order office products, visit www.econoffice.com or call toll-free (877) ECON121.