Barbara Walters, Maya Angelou, Anne Mulcahy, Barbara Corcoran and Kath

Barbara Walters, Maya Angelou, Anne Mulcahy, Barbara Corcoran and Kathy Ireland Featured on Office Depot's Web Cafe

    Business Editors

    DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 2005--

Keynote Speeches from Office Depot's Success Strategies for Businesswomen Conference Made Available on Company's Web-based Seminar Series
    Office Depot (NYSE:ODP), one of the world's leading resellers of office products, is bringing to life the stories and business tips from some of the most successful businesswomen in the country with streaming video of its fifth annual Success Strategies for Businesswomen Conference.
    As part of Office Depot's Web Cafe, small business owners who were unable to attend the conference and those attendees who would like to revisit the experience can view and listen to the strategies and advice presented by the Conference's keynote speakers by visiting: http://investor.officedepot.com/media_files/NYS/ODP/agenda.htm
    Keynote presentations were made by Barbara Walters, ABC News Correspondent and Emmy-Award Winning Co-Host and Executive Producer of "The View," Dr. Maya Angelou, Best Selling Author and Poet, Anne Mulcahy, Chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation, Barbara Corcoran, Chairman of the Corcoran Group, and Kathy Ireland, Founder, CEO and Chief Designer for Kathy Ireland Worldwide. These highly successful businesswomen were the highlight of the three-day event held last week in Boca Raton, FL.
    The Success Strategies for Businesswomen Conference brings together more than 1,000 women from across the country every year. The Conference was created by Office Depot to provide women in business with networking opportunities, while offering seminars that help them manage their businesses more successfully. It is recognized as one of the nation's most prominent and significant events offered annually to female small business owners.
    Web Cafe participants are required to register before viewing at http://investor.officedepot.com/media_files/NYS/ODP/agenda.htm

    The available presentations include:

--	Dr. Maya Angelou, Best Selling Author and Poet
--	Anne Mulcahy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Xerox Corporation
--	Barbara Walters, ABC News Correspondent, Emmy-Award Winning Co-Host and Co-Executive Producer of "The View"
--	Barbara Corcoran, Chairman, The Corcoran Group
--	Kathy Ireland, Founder, CEO and Chief Designer, Kathy Ireland Worldwide (KIWW)

    EDITORS NOTE: The Office Depot Success Strategies for Businesswomen Conference Internet Press Kit, containing background materials, press releases, digital images, biographies and more, is located at http://mediarelations.officedepot.cc/successstrategies05/.

    About the Conference

    The Office Depot Success Strategies for Businesswomen Conference was created in 2001 to provide women in business with networking opportunities, while offering programs and seminars that help them manage their businesses more successfully. In addition to honoring female entrepreneurs from national professional women's organizations, top women in business were also presented with Office Depot Visionary Awards.
    Xerox Corporation was the presenting sponsor for the 2005 conference. Platinum sponsors included MassMutual and Hewlett Packard. Supporting sponsors include Acco, Bic, Canon, Energizer, International Paper, JKG Group, Microsoft, and Smead.

    About Office Depot

    With annual sales approaching $14 billion, Office Depot sells more office products to more customers in more countries than any other company. Incorporated in 1986 and headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida, Office Depot conducts business in 23 countries and employs 46,000 people worldwide. The Company operates under the Office Depot(R), Viking Office Products(R), Viking Direct(R), Guilbert(R), and Tech Depot(R) brand names.
    Office Depot is a leader in every distribution channel - from retail stores and contract delivery to catalogs and e-commerce. With $3.1 billion in online sales in FY'04, the Company is the world's number three Internet retailer. In North America, Office Depot has 969 retail stores in addition to a national business-to-business delivery network supported by 22 delivery centers and more than 60 local sales offices. Internationally, the Company conducts wholly owned operations in 14 countries via 78 retail stores and 25 distribution centers, and operates 153 retail stores under joint venture and license arrangements in another seven countries.
    The company'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/.

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