More Than 14,000 Products Featured in the Corporate Express 2006 Sourcebook

Sourcebook Focuses on Customer Needs and Productivity Enhancement 


BROOMFIELD, Colo., Sept. 1  /PRNewswire/ -- Corporate Express, Inc., a Buhrmann company (NYSE:BUH), announced the release of their 2006 Office and Computer Products Sourcebook today. The Company's 2006 Sourcebook includes more than 1,000 new products designed to aid customer productivity and satisfaction.

Corporate Express is one of the world's largest business-to-business suppliers of essential office, facilities and computer products and services, with 2004 sales of approximately $4.5 billion in North America.

The 2006 Corporate Express Sourcebook features an increased number of furniture, facility supply, healthcare and school supply products, enabling customers to review and purchase several lines of business from one easy to use catalog. The Sourcebook also features an enhanced Corporate Express Branded product line-high quality products, great prices, nationwide availability and broad product selection on critical, high-volume items. In addition, the Sourcebook includes several tools to help make choosing office supplies easier-from detailed indexes for easy searching and Post It Flags for marking frequently used products, to pen, pencil and marker guides to aid customers with their writing needs and purchases.

"Whether customers purchase online, by phone or via fax, our research has shown time and again that customers value a hard copy catalog because it makes it easier for them to locate, choose and buy office products," said Mark Hoffman, President and CEO of Corporate Express. "Our comprehensive Sourcebook is one of the many vehicles that have helped us become well known in the industry for our broad product selection, everyday low prices and commitment to service."

  Corporate Express' 2006 Sourcebook contains:
    -More than 14,100 products
    -Over 1,200 pages of product information
    -95 Corporate Express Brands Dated Goods products
    -Easy-to-navigate index and cross references
    -Category buying guides and recommendations on choosing the right
      products
    -Icons to help customers identify Corporate Express' environmentally
      friendly EarthSaver(R), EPP, CPG and Greenseal products and private
      label Diversity Product Solutions.  Icons are also used to highlight
      new products, hazardous materials, cost saving items as well as
      minority-owned manufacturers (MBE) and woman-owned manufacturers (WBE)



In addition to hard copy, items from the new Sourcebook are available through E-Way(R), the Company's Internet ordering site.  Information on how to use E-Way as well as its many benefits - ease-of-use, customizability, cost controls, online information and e-support - are available on a tip card in the 2006 Sourcebook.

To obtain a 2006 Sourcebook, go to http://www.corporateexpress.com/ or call 1-888-CE-TODAY.

About Corporate Express

Corporate Express, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Buhrmann, NV (AMEX:BUHR)(NYSE:BUH), an international business services and distribution group. Buhrmann is a leading global supplier of office products and graphic systems for the business market. Corporate Express' product offering includes office and computer supplies, facility suppliers, imaging and computer graphics supplies, office furniture, document and print management, desktop software, promotional products, and other similar products. Corporate Express has operations in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. Corporate Express' North American operations have more than 200 facilities, including 38 distribution centers, and the Company employs 10,775 people. The Company's Web site address is http://www.corporateexpress.com/. 

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CONTACT: Van Hindes, Vice President Corporate Communications of Corporate

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