About Us

Tony Ellison, CEO of Shoplet.com

Since its launch in 1994, Shoplet.com's has positioned itself as a leading e-marketplace in the office/business products sector, by providing its customers with better product selection, superior customer service, free shipping on most orders over $45, competitive pricing, and an efficient eProcurement platform to streamline the purchasing process. "In an effort to provide our customers with everything they need for the office, Shoplet provides an award-winning website that functions as one of the world's largest online office and business supply superstores, with over 2.5 million customers, and over 200,000 products and equipment for the office," states founder and CEO Tony Ellison.

Shoplet's reach extends to both commercial and public sectors. Shoplet is a certified small business and currently holds five federal government contracts (office products, office furniture, information technology, cleaning equipment and supplies, and security equipment) enabling it to offer its complete product catalog to service the office and business needs of our federal governement.

Shoplet's specialty stores include, Office Supplies, Computer Hardware and Peripherals, Networking Products, Office Furniture, Ink and Toner Supplies, Cleaning and Maintenance Equipment, and Paper and Custom Print Center. Shoplet offers one of the largest selections of Green office products available online, with over 8000 environmentally-friendly products and innovative features such as our Green Your Office tool which allows side-by-side comparisons between products in your shopping cart and environmentally-friendly alternatives.

With an infrastructure that includes over 135 warehouses strategically located across the continental United States, and the ability to make purchases on Shoplet's website 24-7-365, Shoplet is determined to ensure that it exceeds the expectations of each and every customer that visits its website.

Company History

Shoplet.com has been in business since 1994. Leveraging the business expertise he developed as a senior executive at Goldman Sachs, Tony Ellison, CEO and founder of Shoplet.com, started the company with a vision to provide a broad array of business products in an e-markeplace that truly delivers the benefits of a single source promise at low prices, with exceptional customer service. With its strong footing in place, in 1997 Shoplet.com unveiled its proprietary e-Procurement platform that offered a smarter, more efficient way to order products in this new environment known as the “world wide web.”

Shoplet.com expanded its product portfolio in 2000 to include the full array of products for the office. By concentrating on its core fundamentals, Shoplet.com has continued its unprecedented organic expansion with high double digit, year over year growth through 2008. Shoplet.com increased its employee headcount by 40% in 2008, as it strives to provide the highest level of U.S.-based customer service in the industry.