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OfficeMax Helps Meet Local Business Needs With Opening of New Flint Store Four-day Relocation Celebration Includes $1,000 Sweepstakes, How-to Workshops for Small Business and Consumers ITASCA, Ill., March 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- OfficeMax(R), one of the nation's largest office supply retailers, is boosting its service to local businesses by relocating its Flint store to the Buick City Shopping Center, G3650 Miller Road, from the Pine Ridge Center. In celebration, the new store will host a four-day grand opening celebration Thursday through Sunday, March 31 - April 3, featuring an After Hours business networking event, shopping spree giveaways and how-to workshops for businesses and consumers. Opening-day festivities on Thursday, March 31 include a chance to win the first of four, $1,000 shopping sprees. Other activities include how-to business seminars, a grand opening ribbon cutting ceremony with local dignitaries, and an OfficeMax After Hours business leadership event from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., which is open to the public. The 20,000 square-foot OfficeMax store located in Flint's Buick City Shopping Center provides a one-stop shop for all office-related needs. The store will employ approximately 35 full- and part-time associates. "With a convenient location and customer-friendly store layout, our new store allows us to provide an even greater focus on our business customers," said Harold Mulet, Executive Vice President - Retail Stores, OfficeMax. The relocation marks OfficeMax's 42nd store in Michigan, and is the third of 40 new stores nationwide that the retailer plans to open in 2005. OfficeMax's four-day grand opening celebration will continue Friday through Sunday, April 1-3. How-to business workshops and informational seminars will be open to the public, with no RSVP required during the grand opening celebration. Shoppers also can enter a chance to win one of four, $1,000 OfficeMax shopping sprees that will be awarded each day of the grand opening celebration. The store will be open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday. OfficeMax has named Bill Fritch as the store's general manager. The store's phone number is (810) 720-9251. About OfficeMax(R) Incorporated OfficeMax(R) Incorporated (NYSE:OMX) is a leader in both business-to- business office product solutions and retail office products. OfficeMax delivers an unparalleled customer experience - in service, in product, in time savings, and in value - through a relentless focus on its customers. The company provides office supplies and paper, print and document services, technology products and solutions, and furniture to large, medium and small businesses and consumers. OfficeMax customers are served by more than 40,000 associates through direct sales, catalogs, Internet and nearly 1,000 superstores. OfficeMax trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol OMX. To find the nearest OfficeMax, call 1-877-OFFICEMAX or more information can be found at http://www.officemax.com/ . OfficeMax Contact Media Contact Bill Bonner Nicole Miller, Bader Rutter & Associates 630 438 8584 262 938-5425 DATASOURCE: OfficeMax CONTACT: Bill Bonner of OfficeMax, +1-630-438-8584, or Nicole Miller of Bader Rutter & Associates, +1-262-938-5425 Web site: http://www.officemax.com/

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