Staples Advantage - Awards & Recognition

Awards and Recognition

Staples is proud to be recognized for business excellence and our commitment to serving our customers.

Ranked #17 out of 150 on Forbes’ list of America’s Most Reputable Companies (2010)
#1 on Institutional Investor magazine’s “America’s Top Shareholder-Friendly Companies” (Retailing/Hard Lines Category) (2008 and 2009)
#101 on Fortune 500 (2010) – up from #109 in 2009
#397 Fortune’s Global 500 (2009) – up from #439 in 2008
#5 on Fortune’s “Most Admired Specialty Retailers” (2010)
#83 on Barron's 500 (2009) – up from #304 last year
#499 on Forbes’ “World’s 2000 Largest Public Companies” (2009)
#319 on Forbes’ “400 Best Big Companies” (ranked nine consecutive years)
#111 on Brand Week’s “America’s Top 2,000 Brands” (2008)
#60 on CRO magazine (formerly Business Ethics) “Best Corporate Citizens list” (2010)
#4 among 35 retail sector companies and #40 among 541 global companies evaluated in the 2008 Covalence Ethical Ranking
# 31 of 78 in Boston Business Journal’s “Boston's Largest Corporate Charitable Contributors” – first time ranked in 2008
# 14 on Boston Globe’s “100 Top Companies” (2009)
#68 on Boston Globe’s “100 Best Places to Work” (2008)
#47 on STORES magazine’s “Hot 100 Retailers” (2009)
#29 on STORES magazine’s “Top 100 Retailers” (2009)
#4 on MultiChannel Merchant Top 100 (2009) – up from #5 in 2008.

Jay Baitler, executive vice president of Staples Advantage, named to the OPI Top 100 Global Resellers for his leadership in the Office Products industry (2009)
Ron Sargent, Chairman & CEO of Staples, named to the OPI Top 100 Global Resellers for his leadership in the Office Products Industry (2009)
Ron Sargent named “Best CEO” by Institutional Investor magazine (Retailing/Hard Lines Category) (2009)
Received Modern Materials Handling magazine’s 2008 Innovation Productivity Award for innovative use of a robotic fulfillment system, called KIVA, now operating in two of Staples Advantage’s 37 fulfillment centers in the U.S. (2008)
Jay Baitler, executive vice president of Staples Advantage, named to Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine’s Provider Pros to Know (2004–2008)
Staples Advantage named to Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine’s Executive 100 (2003–2008)
City Business Journals Network’s “American Brand Excellence Award” (2007–2008)

Ranked No. 23 overall and No. 2 among retailers in the NEWSWEEK Green Rankings for 2010, which ranks the environmental efforts of the largest 500 companies in the United States (http://greenrankings.newsweek.com/top500)
For the seventh consecutive year, selected as a component of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) for 2010/11.
2011 ENERGY STAR® Retail Partner of the Year award.
EPA Green Power Partner recognition: ranked No. 4 among all retailers, No. 6 among Fortune 500 companies and No. 8 nationwide. (March 2011)
Corporate Responsibility Officer magazine (CRO) Top 100 companies in 2010, ranked #60. The CRO list ranks the corporate responsibility efforts of large-cap companies from the Russell 1000 index.
Ranked No. 2 among 35 global retail sector companies and No. 34 out of 541 global companies evaluated in the 2009 Covalence Ethical Ranking National Recycling Coalition Recycling Works Award.
2009 US EPA New England Environmental Merit Award winner, recognized for excellence in the management of our corporate fleet and our membership as a participant the US EPA SmartWay Program.
Winner of the Belgium Association for Purchasing and Logistics Air Chase Competition in 2009, which honors businesses for reducing the air transportation of products and goods, thereby minimizing their ecological footprint.

Awarded One of America’s Top Corporations for Women’s Business Enterprises by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (2012)
Ranked #16 on Diversity MBA Magazine’s 50 Best Places for Diverse Managers to Work (2010) (up from #29 in 2009)
Tara Spann, Director of Diversity Initiatives for Staples, named to Diversity MBA Magazine’s “Top 100 Diverse Emerging Leaders” (2009)
Readers’ Choice Award: A Best Diversity Company by DiversityCareers.com (2007)
Named to “America’s Top 50 Corporations for Multicultural Business Opportunities” by DiversityBusiness.com (2007–2009)
Selected as #56 in “Top 60 Companies for Hispanics” in 2008 by Hispanic Business magazine
PNC MWDBE Strategic Partnership Award (2006)
Awarded the New York Life Silver Star Prime Award for Supplier Diversity (2005, 2006)

Staples ranked #2 on Internet Retailer magazine’s “Top 500 largest e-tailers” list (2007–2009); ranked #1 in total Web sales in the office supply industry
Web Marketing Association presented its WebAward to StaplesLink.com^® for B2B Standard of Excellence (2006–2007)
EWay.com™ has received both the AIIM Best Practices Award and ADT Innovator Award for excellence in technology leadership