Grand & Toy

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Grand & Toy

Type	Subsidiary
Founded	Toronto, Ontario 1882
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario
Key people	~~Garry Wood~~, President (Aug 2005–2007)
Products	Paper, Office Supplies, Computer Supplies
Employees	2700^[1]
Parent	OfficeMax
Website	http://www.grandandtoy.com

A Grand & Toy location in Toronto, Canada.

Grand & Toy is a Canadian office supplies chain, founded in 1882 by James Grand as a home-based stationery printing business. A year later, Grand partnered with his brother-in-law, Samuel Toy, to open their first retail store in Toronto.^[2]

In 1996 Grand & Toy was purchased by Boise Office Solutions, since renamed OfficeMax Inc., a US based international office supplies distributor, for $104 million USD.^[3]

1 Products & Services
2 Brief History
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Products & Services

Office Supplies
Interiors
Technology
Professional Services
Paper
Print & Copy Centres

[edit] Brief History

1882 - Company founded in Toronto
1895 - Toronto head office established on Wellington Street
1926 - First retail store opened at 332 Bay Street, Toronto (closed 1981)
1955 - Head office moved to Don Mills
1962 - First computer installed
December 1964 - First million dollar month
November 1987 - First 20 million dollar month
June 1990 - Cara Operations Limited acquires G & T
February 1996 - Boise Cascade Office Products acquires G & T
May 1998 - Vaughan, Ontario distribution center & Toronto branch opened
2003 - Boise purchases OfficeMax
2004 - Boise divests paper and wood products manufacturing and building materials distribution businesses, and renames itself OfficeMax
2007 - Grand & Toy celebrates 125 years in business
2008 - Grand & Toy launches DHL shipping centers at all of their retail locations across Canada.