After 45 acquisitions, School Specialty is now the No. 1 supplier of products for educators.

By Alicia Orr Suman

For example, he says, “School Specialty offers really neat stuff like basketballs that show kids where to place their hands to shoot properly.” They also make more money, and get higher margins from these types of products than they could from selling the more commodity-type lines, he notes.

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