September 2019 Summary: Nordstrom, Inc. is a leading fashion retailer based in the U.S. Founded in 1901 as a shoe store in Seattle, today Nordstrom operates 381 stores in 40 states, including 118 full-line stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico; 248 Nordstrom Rack stores; three Jeffrey boutiques; two clearance stores; six Trunk Club clubhouses; and four Nordstrom Local service concepts. Additionally, customers are served online through Nordstrom.com, Nordstromrack.com, HauteLook and TrunkClub.com. Nordstrom, Inc.'s common stock is publicly traded on the NYSE under the symbol JWN.

November 2004 Description: Nordstrom, Inc. is one of the nation's leading fashion specialty retailers, with 150 US stores located in 27 states. Founded in 1901 as a shoe store in Seattle, Nordstrom today operates 94 full-line stores, 49 Nordstrom Racks, five U.S. Faconnable boutiques, one freestanding shoe store, and one clearance store. Nordstrom also operates 31 international Faconnable boutiques, primarily in Europe. Additionally, Nordstrom Direct serves customers through its online presence at http://www.nordstrom.com and through its direct mail catalogs.

November 2004 Description: Pacific Sunwear of California, Inc. is a leading mall-based specialty retailer of everyday casual apparel, accessories and footwear designed to meet the lifestyle needs of active teens and young adults. The Company's customers are guys and girls aged 12 to 22 who generally prefer a casual look. Much of the fashion influence at PacSun (Pacific Sunwear) stores comes from surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding and brands associated with those sports. The Company believes its stores are differentiated by a carefully edited selection of popular and emerging brands, which are offered together with the Company's own private brands. The Company believes its merchandise selection enhances its image with its customers as a key fashion resource for the casual teen wardrobe. At October 30, 2004 the Company operated 734 PacSun stores in 50 states and Puerto Rico. The Company opened 15 stores in fiscal 1998 under a new retail concept with the trade name d.e.m.o. d.e.m.o. stores cater to 16-24 year old customer. Much of the fashion influence comes from hip hop music and personalities associated with the lifestyle. There are no overlapping brands or merchandise between d.e.m.o. stores and Pacific Sunwear stores. At October 30, 2004 the Company operated 159 d.e.m.o. stores. The Company also operates an Outlet division. These stores have an everyday value pricing strategy offering a mix of off-price branded merchandise, private brand and current season fashion merchandise. At October 30, 2004 the Company operated 84 PacSun Outlet stores. Pacific Sunwear opened a total of 90 new stores in fiscal 2003, which equated to a 13% increase in store square footage and ended fiscal 2003 with 877 stores in operation. Of the 877 stores, 677 were PacSun stores, 79 PacSun Outlet stores and 121 d.e.m.o. stores. The Company plans to open 110 net new stores and expand or relocate 35 stores to larger locations in fiscal 2004 for a square footage increase of approximately 15%. As of October 2, 2004, the Company operated 977 stores.

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Retail Ventures (Value City) / DSW - Designer Brands

https://www.designerbrands.com/ 

Investor Relations: https://investors.dswshoe.com/

September 2019 Summary: Designer Brands is one of North America's largest designers, producers and retailers of footwear and accessories. The Company operates a portfolio of retail concepts in nearly 1,000 locations under the DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse®, The Shoe Company®, and Shoe Warehouse® banners and services footwear departments in the U.S. through its Affiliated Business Group ("ABG"). Designer Brands designs and produces footwear and accessories through Camuto Group, a leading manufacturer selling in more than 5,400 doors worldwide. Camuto Group owns licensing rights for the Jessica Simpson® footwear business, and footwear and handbag licenses for Lucky Brand® and Max Studio®. In partnership with a joint venture with Authentic Brands Group, Designer Brands also owns a stake in Vince Camuto®, Louise et Cie®, Sole Society®, CC Corso Como®, Enzo Angiolini® and others. More information can be found at www.designerbrands.com.

Retail Ventures announced its merger with DSW in February 2011.

November 2004 Description: Their business strategy is quite simple. They fill their stores with a wide assortment of designer, department, discount and specialty store brands at prices substantially lower than competing department and discount stores.  They use their buying power to drive down the prices of goods and then pass the savings along to the customer. You never know what bargain is waiting for you at Value City!  Value City Department Stores with over 110 stores around the country and sales exceeding $1 billion.

Retail Ventures was a holding company originally created in 2003 for DSW (NYSE: DSW), Filene's Basement, and Value City Department Stores. The retailer's Initial Public Offering was in 1991 under the Value City name. Value City went on to purchase the DSW shoe business in 1998 and Filene's Basement in 2000.

February 2019: Transform SR Brands, LLC (doing business as Transformco, referred to as "New Sears") is an American privately held company formed on February 11, 2019, to acquire some of the assets of Sears Holdings Corporation. The new company is owned by Eddie Lampert's ESL Investments hedge fund of Greenwich, Connecticut. Following the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing of Sears Holdings on October 15, 2018, Transformco purchased the surviving assets owned by Sears Holdings for $5.2 billion.

Oct. 15, 2018 Sears Holdings Corporation ("Holdings," "we," "our," or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SHLD) today announced a series of actions to position the Company to establish a sustainable capital structure, continue streamlining its operating model and grow profitably for the long term. To facilitate these actions, the Company and certain of its subsidiaries have filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the "Court").

April 2005 Description: Sears Holdings Corporation, the publicly traded parent of Kmart and Sears, Roebuck and Co., is the nation's third largest broadline retailer, with approximately $55 billion in annual revenues, and with approximately 3,800 full-line and specialty retail stores in the United States and Canada. Sears Holdings is the leading home appliance retailer in North America and is a retail sales leader in tools, lawn and garden, home electronics, and automotive repair and maintenance. Key proprietary brands include Kenmore, Craftsman and DieHard, and a broad apparel offering, including such well-known labels as Lands' End, Jaclyn Smith and Joe Boxer, as well as the Apostrophe and Covington brands. The company also offers Martha Stewart Everyday products, which are available exclusively in the U.S. at Kmart and in Canada at Sears Canada. The merger of Kmart and Sears as Sears Holdings Corporation closed on March 24, 2005, following affirmative shareholder votes of both companies. The company's corporate headquarters is in Hoffman Estates, Ill. Kmart maintains a headquarters office in Troy, Mich. Sears Holdings will operate Sears and Kmart stores, and will begin opening a combined format named Sears Essentials during the second quarter of 2005. The company will continue to market products under brands held by both companies.

September 2019 Summary: Minneapolis-based Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) serves guests at more than 1,800 stores and at Target.com. Since 1946, Target has given 5% of its profit to communities, which today equals millions of dollars a week.

Description November 2004: Minneapolis-based Target Stores serves guests at 1,313 stores in 47 states nationwide by delivering today's best retail trends at affordable prices. Whether visiting a Target store or shopping online at Target.com, guests enjoy a fun and convenient shopping experience with access to thousands of unique and highly differentiated items. Target Stores, along with its parent company Target Corporation gives back more than $2 million a week to its local communities through grants and special programs. Since opening its first store in 1962, Target has partnered with nonprofit organizations, guests and team members to help meet community needs.

Symbol:  TJX   Chart

Web Site: https://www.tjx.com/

Investor Relations: https://investor.tjx.com/investors

September 2019 Summary: The TJX Companies, Inc. is the leading off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions in the U.S. and worldwide. As of August 3, 2019, the end of the Company's second quarter, the Company operated a total of 4,412 stores in nine countries, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Austria, the Netherlands, and Australia, and three e-commerce sites. These include 1,260 TJ Maxx, 1,107 Marshalls, 783 HomeGoods, 39 Sierra, and 23 Homesense stores, as well as tjmaxx.com and sierra.com in the United States; 274 Winners, 132 HomeSense, and 91 Marshalls stores in Canada; 580 TK Maxx and 72 Homesense stores, as well as tkmaxx.com, in Europe; and 51 TK Maxx stores in Australia. TJX's press releases and financial information are available at tjx.com.

Description November 2004: TJX, the world leader in off-price retailing, trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TJX. Their success in the off-price business is driven by many factors including their strong organization, sound off-price concept, conservative financial policies, significant ROI, strong cash flow and consistent performance. The Company operates 767 T.J. Maxx, 695 Marshalls, 206 HomeGoods and 121 A.J. Wright stores, as well as 33 Bob's Stores, in the United States. In Canada, the Company operates 167 Winners and 39 HomeSense stores, and in Europe, 160 T.K. Maxx stores.

Urban Outfitters

Symbol: URBN  Chart

Web Site : https://www.urbanoutfitters.com/

Investor Relations: https://investor.urbn.com/

September 2019 Summary: Urban Outfitters, Inc., offers lifestyle-oriented general merchandise and consumer products and services through a portfolio of global consumer brands comprised of 245 Urban Outfitters stores in the United States, Canada and Europe and websites; 228 Anthropologie Group stores in the United States, Canada and Europe, catalogs and websites; 136 Free People stores in the United States, Canada and Europe, catalogs and websites, 12 Food and Beverage restaurants, 4 Urban Outfitters franchisee-owned stores, 1 Anthropologie Group franchisee-owned store and 1 Free People franchisee-owned store, as of April 30, 2019. Free People, Anthropologie Group and Urban Outfitters wholesale sell their products through approximately 2,200 department and specialty stores worldwide, digital businesses and the Company's Retail segment.

November 2004 Description: Urban Outfitters, Inc. is a lifestyle merchandising company that operates specialty retail stores under the Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie and Free People brands, as well as a wholesale division under the Free People brand

Wal-mart 

Stock: WMT  Chart

Web Site: https://www.walmart.com/ 

http://www.walmartstores.com/  

Investor Relations: https://stock.walmart.com/

September 2019 Summary : Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) helps people around the world save money and live better - anytime and anywhere - in retail stores, online, and through their mobile devices. Each week, over 275 million customers and members visit our more than 11,300 stores under 58 banners in 27 countries and eCommerce websites. With fiscal year 2019 revenue of $514.4 billion, Walmart employs over 2.2 million associates worldwide. Walmart continues to be a leader in sustainability, corporate philanthropy and employment opportunity.