Corporate Express Launches Two Online Green Shopping Tools
Last update: 4/22/2008 12:13:00 PM
In honor of Earth Day, company makes it even more convenient for customers to shop extensive environmentally preferred product offering BROOMFIELD, Colo., April 22, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Corporate Express US Inc. has launched two new virtual tools for customers to browse and purchase green products: the Ecoffice(R) Source, an online virtual catalog, and the Ecoffice Way, a special shopping section on the company's premiere online ordering website E-Way. Corporate Express US Inc., part of the Dutch-based Corporate Express NV (CXP), is a leading business-to-business supplier in the US of office and computer supplies, office furniture, facility supplies, document and print management, imaging and computer graphic supplies, promotional products and other similar products. "We have a long-standing commitment to sustainability and the environment, and we've offered a broad selection of environmentally preferred products for quite some time," said Jay Mutschler, president of Corporate Express US. "In honor of Earth Day, we're pleased to launch two new virtual shopping tools to make it simple for our customers to buy green products." The virtual Ecoffice Source green catalog offers many user-friendly features, including: intuitive navigation, keyword searching, a page bookmark tool, virtual sticky notes to tag products, web reporting and more. The catalog also integrates with E-Way, so customers can place orders seamlessly online, by logging on to E-Way when prompted. Find the Ecoffice Source green catalog at or access it from . Ecoffice Way is an exclusive green shopping section in that features the same products as the Ecoffice Source catalog and also allows shoppers to browse and purchase green products entirely online. "We're offering two tools because our customers like to shop in different ways," said Walter Scott, vice president of Marketing and eCommerce. "About seventy percent prefer to use , so we're giving them a convenient tool within this site. Still others like to flip through a catalog, so we're giving them a virtual version, as opposed to a printed one, to help save our Earth's resources." Both Ecoffice Source and Ecoffice Way feature the company's comprehensive offer a breadth of green products, including:
-- Environmentally preferred Sustainable Earth(R) cleaners -- Earthsaver(R) brand post-consumer recycled content papers -- Furniture with green attributes -- Compostable break room supplies -- Eco-conscious facility supplies -- Many more green office productsAs always, customers can recycle old printed catalogs by simply giving them to their Corporate Express drivers. Customers who prefer to shop exclusively online can contact their Sales reps and request to cancel future delivery of printed catalogs.