United Stationers

United Stationers is the largest wholesale distributor of business products in North America, with sales in of nearly $5 billion. In 2011, it ranked 467 (previous rank: 439) out of the Fortune 500 companies. United Stationers is made up of multiple divisions: United Stationers Supply Company (business products), LagasseSweet (janitorial and sanitation Products), Azerty (technology products), ORS Nasco (industrial products), and MBS Dev (software). United Stationers is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois with employee size 250 - 499.

United Stationers sells to a broad spectrum of customers, including office products dealers; contract stationers; office products superstores; computer products resellers; office furniture dealers; mass merchandisers; mail order companies; sanitary supply, paper and foodservice distributors; drug and grocery store chains; e-commerce merchants; oil field, welding supply and industrial/MRO distributors; and other independent distributors. It serves a reseller community of 30,000. The company maintains nearly 70 warehouses supporting its different divisions and is able to boast next morning delivery for almost 100,000 products it carries to every state in the continental United States for orders entered as late as 5PM the previous evening. Its focus on operational excellence has given the company an average line fill rate of better than 97%, a 99.6% order accuracy rate, and a 99% on-time delivery rate.

The current officers of the company include:

• Frederick B. Hegi Jr., Independent Chairman of the Board
• Paul Cody Phipps, President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
• Victoria J. Reich, Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President
• Timothy P. Connolly, President - Operations and Logistics Services
• Stephen A. Schultz, Group President of LagasseSweet and ORS Nasco
• Todd A. Shelton, President - United Stationers Supply
• S. David Bent, Senior Vice President e-Business Services, Corporate Chief Information Officer
• Eric A. Blanchard, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary
• Barbara J. Kennedy, Senior Vice President - Human Resources
• Robert Blaine Aiken Jr., Independent Director

In December 2010, United Stationers announced that P. Cody Phipps, the company's Chief Operating Officer, would become president and CEO when Richard W. Gochnauer, CEO, retired at the annual shareholders’ meeting in May 2011.

United Stationers offers a number of private label brands to its reseller community. These brands include Innovera (tech products), Windsoft (sanitary paper products), Universal (office products), and Alera (Office Furniture).