Professional Business Systems Is Appointed Reseller for United Stationers

Online, June 10, 2014 (Newswire.com) - PBS in an effort to diversify offerings has been appointed a partnering distributor with wholesaler United Stationers. United Stationers is the leading wholesale provider for business essentials including office supplies, office furniture, break room supplies, janitorial supplies and technology products. While PBS is a foremost distributor of printing, promotional products and mailing and fulfillment. Under the agreement Professional Business Systems will add United Stationers broad range of products across key market channels, to respond much more efficiently to the demand for business products from consumers.

Ken Sperling, President of PBS, offers his encouragement with, "Partnering with United Stationers has opened up a wide variety of opportunities to allow PBS the ability to streamline our customer's purchasing power." Ken continues, "While making our customers experience an extremely simple process passing on money and time saving convenience."

With the new direction and rapidly evolving business market PBS recognizes that it is estimated that 71 percent of businesses order supplies online. PBS and its new capabilities is generating online solutions that include over 100,000 items all offered seamlessly in one location. PBS now has the ability to offer businesses an e-commerce solution specifically for their business. All with many different levels of security and reporting functions in an easy to use system.

About PBS
Professional Business Systems is a foremost distributor of printing, promotional products and mailing and fulfillment. Additionally expanding to essentials include office supplies, office furniture, breakroom supplies, janitorial supplies and technology products. PBS with its abundance of creativity, knowledge, inspiration and innovation, allows businesses to tap into one source with infinite resources making for more successful end-to-end solutions.

For more information about PBS-Professional Business Systems and its new offerings, call (800) 242-4230 or visit www.webpbs.com.

About United Stationers
United Stationers Inc. is a leading wholesale distributor of business products, with 2011 net sales of approximately $5.0 billion. The company stocks approximately 100,000 items, including technology products, traditional office products, janitorial and break room supplies, office furniture, and industrial products. A network of 62 distribution centers enables delivery of these products to over 25,000 reseller customers. This network, combined with United's depth and breadth of inventory, enables the company to ship most products overnight to more than 90% of the population of the U.S. and major cities in Mexico.

For more information, visit www.unitedstationers.com. United Stationers' common stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol USTR.