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The Office Depot Vendor Development Team is committed to satisfying our customers' needs and exceeding expectations by offering the highest quality products at the lowest delivered cost, while fulfilling their diversity purchasing needs.
To support our commitment, the Office Depot Vendor Development Process is organized into 5 key strategies:
- Seeking out HUBs through vendor fairs and tradeshows.
- Offering HUBs an equal opportunity in the vendor selection process.
- Forming partnerships with diverse businesses and HUB member organizations including the NMSDC (National Minority Supplier Development Council), WBENC (Women's Business Enterprise National Council), the SBA (Small Business Administration), and MBDA (Minority Business Development Agency).
- Marketing HUBs to provide them with national exposure through Office Depot's national catalogs, www.officedepot.com , and various diversity magazines that focus on the business of diversity.
- Empowering HUBs by raising their capabilities and making them the best source from which to buy.
The Office Depot Vendor Development Team has officially been in place since December of 1999 and in that time has generated over $3.5 Billion in sales. To find out more about the HUB products that are currently available, Click here.
Vendor Development is looking for certified HUBs that manufacture innovative products. Does your company manufacture a product that is missing from our assortment?
What's innovative? See our HUB Spotlights section and read about recent examples of vendors providing innovative solutions. Some of the recent innovations are from Stride, Kleenslate, Hess and LePage's.
If you have a product that you want to submit to Office Depot for resale in any of our channels,Click here
to obtain more information. Remember to send all information to the attention of Vendor Development.
For additional information on our current Vendors, please Click here
Definition:
*Historically Underutilized Businesses (HUBs) include certified Minority, Women, Disabled, Veteran, and Small [SBA 8(a), SDB, and HUB Zone] enterprises.


