Viking Office Products, Inc.

Viking Office Products, Inc. sells office products through direct marketing catalogs and programs to small and medium-sized businesses. The company's office products and business machines include calculators, adding machines, typewriters, telephones, facsimile machines and compact copiers. The company also sells computer supplies and office furniture which includes chairs, desks, tables, partitions and filing and storage cabinets. General office supplies accounted for 74% of fiscal 1997 revenues; computer supplies, 18% and furniture, 8%.