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Home Textiles Today
July 22, 2013
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RETAILING GIANTS RANK 2012
RANK 2011
STORE TYPE
COMPANY
HEADQUARTERS
HOME TEXTILES SALES IN MILLIONS 2012 2011
31
26
DTC
HanoverD irect
Weehawken, N.J.
$160
$185
-13.5%
NA
0.6%
6
6
32
31
SC
FredM eyer
Portland, Ore.
$146
$144
1.4%
NA
0.6%
133
131
33
33
DS
DollarG eneral
Goodlettsville, Tenn.
$144
$137
5.1%
0.9%
0.6% 10,506
9,937
34
32
SP
Crate & Barrel
Northbrook, Ill.
$144
$138
4.3%
10.6%
0.6%
101
108
35
35
DTC
Overstock.com
Salt Lake City
$140
$125
12.0%
12.7%
0.5%
NS
NS
36
34
DTC
BrylaneHome
New York
$136
$136
0.0%
NA
0.5%
NS
NS
37
37
DC
Shopko
Green Bay, Wis.
$130
$96
35.4%
4.3%
0.5%
310
144
38
36
DP
The Bon-Ton Stores
York, Pa.
$123
$121
1.7%
4.2%
0.5%
272
272
39 NR
SP/DTC
PBTeen
San Francisco
$103
$100
3.0%
46.8%
0.4%
11
5
40 NR
SP/DTC
WestE lm
San Francisco
$95
$74
28.4%
22.1%
0.4%
45
36
HOME TEXTILES AS SHARE OF A % OF STORE’S HOME TEXTILES TOTAL SALES UNIVERSE
NUMBER OF STORES 2012 2011
Privately owned. Operates The Company Store, Company Kids, Undergear and Scandia Home. Sales and store counts for The Company Store and Company Kids. Provides quality branded merchandise for the home through its catalogs, e-commerce websites and retail locations. Operates four Company Stores in Madison and Pleasant Prairie, Wis.; Kittery, Maine; and Mebane, N.C.; and one Company Store Outlet in La Crosse, Wis. In March of this year, closed its Domestications store in Roanoke, Va., after announcing the store would be closing in early January. Also closed its 750,000-square-foot distribution center in Roanoke County, outsourcing its fulfillment business to GSI Commerce at a facility in Martinsville, Va. Domestications’ website has been down for about a year.
Fiscal year ended Feb. 2. Part of publicly-held Kroger. Founded in 1922, Fred Meyer operates in the Pacific Northwest in Idaho, Oregon and Washington, and in Alaska. Stores range in size from 65,000 square feet to 200,000 square feet and carry more than 250,000 items providing customers with one-stop shopping for food, health and beauty care, clothes, home products, electronics and more, all under one roof. In 2012, Fred Meyer opened stores in Maple Valley, Wash., and in Eagle, Idaho in the Boise area. Fred Meyer does not have any plans for new stores in 2013, but does expect to expand and renovate some of its stores.
Fiscal year ended Feb. 1. Operates over 10,000 stores in 40 states primarily in the southern, southwestern, midwestern and eastern U.S. Units average approximately 7,300 square feet offering a broad selection of merchandise, including consumables, seasonal, home products and apparel at substantial discounts, typically $10 or less. Home product sales increased 5.6% to $1.06 billion in 2012, from $1 billion in 2011 and accounted for 6.6% of total sales, down from 6.8% the previous year. Total 2012 sales were $16.02 billion, up 8.2% from $14.81 billion in 2011. In 2012, opened its first stores in California and Massachusetts. In 2013, plans to open 635 new stores and remodel or relocate an additional 550 stores.
Fiscal year ended Jan. 27. Lifestyle multi-channel specialty retailer operating Crate & Barrel, its “affordable modern” concept store, CB2, and its children’s home furnishings store, The Land of Nod, as well as e-commerce sites for each, servicing customers in more than 90 countries. Stores are located throughout the U.S. and Canada. Also has five franchised units in the United Arab Emirates in Dubai, Singapore and Mexico. Sales and store counts for United States only. Textiles offered include bed and bath, chair cushions, decorative pillows, throws, rugs, curtains, and kitchen and table linens. The company also has The Marimekko Shop, store-within-a-store, in five of its locations in California, Florida, Illinois and New York offering textiles and other products by the Finnish design company.
Publicly held, fiscal year ended Dec. 31. Online-only closeout retailer offering discount brand name merchandise. Began selling online in 1999. Also sells via mobile through an iPhone and other smartphone apps. Direct revenues, with orders fulfilled through its own warehouses, accounted for 14% of 2012 net revenues. The balance, $943.8 million last year, is through fulfillment partners. 2012 sales for the home and garden product category, including bath linens, fashion bedding, utility bedding and rugs, as well as furniture, housewares, garden and patio products, were $725.5 million, up 18.7% from $611.5 million in 2011. The home and garden category comprises 66% of total sales. Total 2012 sales were $1.10 billion, up 4.3% from $1.05 billion in 2011.
Owned by Charlesbank Capital Partners and Webster Capital. BrylaneHome consists of two divisions: BrylaneHome, known as “America’s White Sale Catalog”, offering everything from fashion bedding and home accents to housewares and bath shop items and BrylaneHome Kitchen, offering hard-to-find kitchen and home essentials. Also sells through BrylaneHome.com. BrylaneHome’s parent company, OneStopPlus Group, was acquired by Boston-based investment bankers Charlesbank Capital Partners and Webster Capital from Redcats, owned by Paris-based luxury and sport & lifestyle group PPR. The sale effectively ended Redcats’ direct marketing operation in the United States.
Privately-held affiliate of Sun Capital Partners. Operates 134 Shopko stores, 176 Shopko Hometown stores, five Shopko Express Rx stores and 18 Shopko Pharmacy locations throughout the Midwest, Mountain, North Central and Pacific Northwest regions. Shopko stores are larger, averaging 75,000 square feet, typically located in small to mid-sized cities, whereas Hometown stores are a smaller-scale, ranging from 15,000 to 35,000 square feet, and meet the needs of rural communities. In January 2012, ShopKo announced the merger of Pamida into its operations, converting all 163 Pamida stores to the Shopko Hometown format throughout the year. Will open five new Hometown stores in late fall of 2013 in Afton, Wyo., St. Peter, Minn., and Winneconne, Ellsworth and Tomahawk, Wis.
Fiscal year ended Feb. 2. Currently operates stores in 24 states in the Northeast, Midwest and upper Great Plains under the Bon-Ton, Bergner’s, Boston Store, Carson’s, Elder-Beerman, Herberger’s and Younkers nameplates. Stores offer fashion apparel and accessories, as well as home furnishings, both nationally distributed brands and private brands. Sales in Home were $505.5 million in 2012, basically flat with 2011 sales of $505.4 million, with furniture being one of the poorest performing categories. As a percent of total sales, Home dropped to 17.3% of total from 17.5% in 2011. Total 2012 sales were $2.92 billion, up 1.2% from $2.88 billion in 2011. Opened its first store in Idaho last year, a new Herberger’s in the Pine Ridge Mall in Pocatello. This September will open its first store in Maine, a Bon-Ton store in South Portland. Earlier in the year, converted its Parisian nameplate in its three stores in the Detroit area to become Carson’s stores.
Fiscal year ended Feb. 3. Part of publicly held Williams-Sonoma. Launched in 2003, PBteen focuses exclusively on the teen market offering bedding, window treatments, rugs, lighting, gear, decorative accessories, storage and organization solutions, and furniture for teen bedrooms, study spaces and lounges. PBdorm, launched in 2010, is an exclusive collection that offers dorm furniture and essentials. Products are available through the catalogs, pbteen.com, and 12 retail locations in Roseville and Thousand Oaks, Calif.; Atlanta; Edina, Minn.; Cincinnati; Chicago; St. Louis; New York City; Coral Gables, Fla.; Natick, Mass.; Durham, N.C.; and The Woodlands, Texas. Textiles drove performance in this division all year. Total 2012 revenues for the brand were $220 million, up 3.7% from $212 million in 2011. Comp brand revenues were up 1.7%. Opened six “pop-up” stores in 2012 in Roseville, Cincinnati, Coral Gables, Edina, Durham and The Woodlands. Also opened its first PBteen store in the Middle East last year by the company’s unaffiliated franchisee. In June 2013, opened its first Southern California store in Thousand Oaks with another one planned for the area later this summer.
Fiscal year ended Feb. 3. Part of publicly held Williams-Sonoma. Launched in 2002, offers a broad range of home furnishing categories including furniture, textiles, decorative accessories, lighting and tabletop items. Operates stores in the United States, including Puerto Rico, in Canada and in the Middle East through a franchise agreement, its direct-mail catalog available to consumers in the United States, and an e-commerce website shipping to over 90 countries worldwide. Sales and store counts for U.S. only. Is one of Williams-Sonoma’s largest growth vehicles, now approaching 11% of the company’s business. Total 2012 revenues for the brand were $430 million, up 28% from $336 million in 2011. Comp brand revenues increased 17.4% on top of a 30.3% increase the previous fiscal year. In October 2012, launched West Elm Market with the opening of a store in Brooklyn, N.Y, shop-in-shops in West Elm stores in eight locations, and online. The brand extension offers customers a total home toolkit in four key product categories – kitchen, garden, care and repair and personal care. In May 2013, opened its first company-owned West Elm store in Sydney, Australia. Will open a second one in Australia in Melbourne and the company’s first ever European store, in London, in late 2013.
All home textiles sales information, except for publicly held companies that break out line-of-business sales for home textiles, are Home Textiles Today market research estimates. All data for calendar year ending Dec. 31, fiscal year-end or trailing 12 months closest to that date. NS=No stores; NA=Not available
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Store type: DTC=Direct-to-consumer; CH= Chain store; DC=Discount department store; DP=Department store; DS=Dollar store; HIC=Home improvement center; PX=Military exchange; SC= Supercenter (includes food in merchandise mix); SP= Specialty store; W=Warehouse club; FS=Furniture store Source: Home Textiles Today market research
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