Original article by Sue Mitchell
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 15 : 16-Jun-17

Officeworks is diversifying away from its traditional office products market as it prepares for Amazon’s arrival in Australia. MD Mark Ward says the areas that it is looking to expand into include parcel delivery, art supplies and business processing, and that the value of the current and potential markets that it is looking to operate in is around $A55 billion. Ward says he was "not disappointed" by parent company Wesfarmers’ decision not to proceed with an initial public offering for Officeworks.

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