Stage Stores Inc.

Stage Stores, Inc.

Type	Public (NYSE: SSI)
Industry	Retail
Founded	1988
Headquarters	Houston, Texas
Key people	Andy Hall, President and CEO James Scarborough, Chairman
Products	Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares.
Website	www.stagestoresinc.com

Stage Stores, Inc. is a department store company specializing mostly in retailing brand name clothing, accessories, cosmetics and footwear. It has its headquarters in Houston, Texas.^[1]

The company operates stores mainly in small and mid-size towns and communities, primarily in Midwestern, Southeastern, and Mid-Atlantic states with a growing presence in the New England states. Stage Stores is currently headquartered in Houston, Texas and operates 668 stores under the Bealls (no relation to the Bealls chain in Florida), Palais Royal, Peebles and Stage nameplates. A subsidiary of the Stage company acquired the Goody's Family Clothing name, and announced plans to reopen several of that chain's former stores.^[2]

In 2000, Stage Stores filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Closures as part of the bankruptcy included most of the former Fashion Bar, Milliken's, Tri-North, and Uhlman's stores, as well as an exodus from Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota.

Acquisitions

Stage Stores, Inc. has acquired many stores over the years, including the following:

Fashion Bar (Colorado, Wyoming). Acquired in 1992, all stores converted to Stage.

Beall-Ladymon (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi). Acquired in 1994, all stores converted to Stage.

Uhlman's (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio). Acquired in 1996. In addition to the Uhlman's name, Uhlman's operated Milliken's stores in Michigan. All were re-named Stage, except for a location in Traverse City, Michigan which operated as Stage-Milliken until 2001.^[3]

C. R. Anthony Co. (Montana, Idaho, Oregon, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Wyoming) Acquired 1997, most stores converted to Stage, while some Anthony's, such as those located in Amarillo, Texas, became Bealls locations.

Tri-North (Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington) Most of these locations operated as Hub Clothing Stores before the 1998 acquisition, when all 15 stores converted to Stage.

B. C. Moore & Sons, (Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina). Acquired February 2006. By November 2006, 69 of these 76 stores were converted to the Peebles name and format, and the other nine were closed.

References

^ "Company Profile." Stage Stores. Retrieved on December 14, 2009.
^ Harrington, Carly (2009-07-09). "Goody's name, logo sold". Knoxville News Sentinel. http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/jul/09/goodys-name-logo-sold/. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
^ Stage/Milliken closing in next three months, Traverse City Record-Eagle, January 4, 2001.

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