A stationary war is set to break out in Australia with Harvey Norrman set to take on OfficeWorks with a new chain of stores called Ofis being rolled out. A passion of Harvey Norman boss Gerry Harvey the stationary market was one that he claims he should have got into years ago "When I went to the USA I saw chains like Home Depot and knew that we should be in that market". he said.

Now the Harvey Norman has group has launched the first of its stationery store chain, with the opening of two outlets in Albury and Sydney. The new stores are divided into four areas - print shop, stationery, IT and office furniture. They offer around 7500 stationery products and 2500 IT products, and the online store is scheduled to go live by mid-year to compete with both OfficeWorks and JB HiFi who are currently taking share away from Harvey Norman in the IT and home office market.