Leo Kahn, entrepreneur who helped found Staples office-supply business, dies at 94
Leo Kahn, entrepreneur who helped found Staples office-supply business, dies at 94
Leo Kahn, 94, a warehouse supermarket pioneer who turned his all-under-one-roof approach to pencils and paper clips as a co-founder of office-supply giant Staples, died Wednesday at an assisted-living facility in Boston of complications from a series of strokes. The son of a wholesale grocer, Mr. Kahn transformed his family’s small business into Purity Supreme, one of the largest supermarket …
Published May 14, 2011.
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