Global Retailer Expands Office Depot Green Brand and Commits to

Helping Customers Save Money by Reducing Energy

DELRAY BEACH, Fla.–(EMWNews)–Office Depot® (NYSE:ODP), a leading global

provider of office products and services, today announced the launch of

the office products industry’s first exclusive

brand of Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs (CFLs) in Office Depot retail

stores nationwide and online at www.officedepot.com/buygreen.

The new CFLs are part of the environmentally preferable “Office

Depot Green” product line which was first

introduced on Earth Day. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA), CFLs use about 75 percent less energy and last up to 10

times longer than standard incandescent bulbs. CFLs are, in fact, one of

the most economically and environmentally beneficial products customers

can buy.

“Compact Fluorescent Lights represent a tremendous opportunity for

Office Depot to serve our increasingly environmentally aware customer

base,” said Richard Diamond, Vice President of Merchandising for Office

Depot. “With the launch of Office Depot Green CFLs, we are once again

leading the office products industry by helping customers create greener

offices and save money in the process.”

“By launching an exclusive line of CFLs and

joining the EPA’s ENERGY STAR Program for

Retail, Office Depot is committing to further promoting the use of

energy efficient products,” said Yalmaz

Siddiqui, Director of Environmental Strategy for Office Depot.

Office Depot offers a wide variety of innovative, energy efficient

products including:

• HP Pavilion Notebook Computer with AMD Turion™

  64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-60: This Energy Star 4.0

  Compliant laptop will help reduce both energy costs and greenhouse gas

  emissions. Additionally, it features 3GB DDR2 memory, a 160GB hard

  drive, integrated wireless LAN with Bluetooth Technology and reads and

  writes dual layer DVDs & CDS.

• HP Officejet Pro L7590 All-in-One: Energy Star 4.0 Qualified,

  which makes this printer over 25 percent more energy efficient, the

  Officejet Pro can run cooler and longer than conventional models. As

  an all-in-one, this machine allows users to print, fax and scan with

  one machine. Additionally, this printer can help reduce paper usage as

  much as 50 percent with duplex printing capabilities.

• APC™ 7-Outlet Energy-Saving Surge

  Protector: This innovative product conserves energy (and

  electricity costs) by automatically cutting power to idle equipment

  and technology peripherals when the main computer is not in use.

• Voltaic Solar Charging Bag: Available as a backpack or

  messenger bag, this innovative business case allows travelers to leave

  their chargers at home and instead use renewable solar power to charge

  mobile electronics, including cell phones, blackberry, mp3 players or

  digital cameras. Not only will the Voltaic bag take you off of the

  electricity grid, it also serves as a great conversation starter!

“Office Depot has offered energy-efficient

technology products for years,” noted John

Lostroscio, Vice President of Merchandising for Office Depot. “By

adding to our assortment of ENERGY STAR compliant products and

highlighting them in more of our marketing vehicles, we are helping our

customers take care of business and the planet by reducing electricity

and operating costs.”

To learn more about Office Depot Green and the Company’s

assortment of greener options, please visit your local Office Depot

store or www.officedepot.com/yourgreeneroffice.

About Office Depot’s Environmental

Commitment

Office Depot’s longstanding commitment to the

environment is guided by the Company’s

environmental vision to increasingly buy green, be green and sell green.

Since 2003, Office Depot has developed and implemented a number of “green”

initiatives, including:

• Creating The Green Book catalog of thousands of

  environmentally-friendly products and educational content for Office

  Depot’s small, medium and large business

  customers;

• Establishing a $2.2 million Forest & Biodiversity Conservation

  Alliance through which Office Depot partnered with Conservation

  International, NatureServe and The Nature Conservancy to resolve real

  issues in the forestry sector to guide our sustainable efforts;

• Developing a Paper Purchasing Policy through which we became the first

  office supply company to make Forest Stewardship Council certified

  paper widely available in the U.S.;

• Reducing the Company’s overall Carbon

  Dioxide emissions output from 2005 – 2006 by 10.1 percent;

• Retrofitting the lighting in the Company’s

  North American retail store chain to T5 high-output fluorescent

  lighting, which is 35 percent more efficient than traditional,

  incandescent lighting;

• Replacing our fleet of “box trucks”

  to ultra-low-emission “Sprinter”

  vehicles, which are on average 40 percent more fuel-efficient than

  their predecessors and get an estimated 15 or more miles per gallon;

  and

• Opening of the Company’s first “Green”

  store in June 2008, which will be Leadership in Energy and

  Environmental Design (LEED) Certified by the U.S. Green Building

  Council. Volume pre-certification from the USGBC on the Company’s

  store prototype.

A complete overview of Office Depot’s

environmental programs is available here.

About Office Depot

Every day, Office Depot is Taking Care of Business for millions of

customers around the globe. For the local corner store as well as

Fortune 500 companies, Office Depot provides products and services to

its customers through 1,680 worldwide retail stores, a dedicated sales

force, top-rated catalogs and a $5.0 billion e-commerce operation.

Office Depot has annual sales of approximately $15.4 billion, and

employs about 49,000 associates around the world. The Company provides

more office products and services to more customers in more countries

than any other company, and currently sells to customers directly or

through affiliates in 44 countries.

Office Depot’s common stock is listed on the

New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ODP and is included in the S&P

500 Index. Additional press information can be found at: http://mediarelations.officedepot.com.

Media materials specific to Office Depot’s

environmental initiatives are available at http://mediarelations.officedepot.cc/environment.

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