Staples has announced that 95.2 percent of the total issued and outstanding ordinary shares in the capital in Corporate Express have been tendered for acceptance.

 

Staples also extended the cash tender offer for all of the outstanding 8.25 percent senior subordinated notes and 7.875 percent senior subordinated notes of Corporate Express U.S. Finance Inc., which was scheduled to expire on June 27, 2008, to July 15, 2008.