TK Maxx
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Retail |
| Fate | Administration |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Founder | Bernard Cammarata |
| Headquarters | Framingham, Massachusetts, United States |
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Number of locations
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407 (end of 2014) |
| Products | Clothing, footwear, bedding and domestics, furniture and giftware |
| Parent | TJX Companies |
| Website | www |
T.K. Maxx, often styled T.K.Maxx and sometimes referred to as TK Maxx, is a company that operates stores throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Austria and the Netherlands, totaling 407 stores in Europe in December 2014.
T.K. Maxx is part of the TJX Companies, which also owns "off-price" retail chains TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, and Sierra Trading Post in the United States; and, in Canada, Marshalls (separate from the U.S. Marshalls chain), HomeSense, and Winners. T.K. Maxx offers men's, women's and children's apparel and shoes, as well as other areas such as toys, bath and beauty, accessories, and home products ranging from furniture to kitchen utensils.
The CEO of TJX companies is Carol Meyrowitz.
In 1976, T.J. Maxx was founded in Framingham, Massachusetts by Bernard Cammarata, as a nameplate of the Zayre chain of discount department stores. When Zayre sold their own nameplate to Ames, a rival discount department store, Zayre was renamed as "TJX Companies, Incorporated".
The first European store opened in Bristol in 1994. The company modified the name to T.K. Maxx to avoid "confusion with the established British retail chain T J Hughes (which is not affiliated with TJX)".
In 2007, T.K. Maxx began winding down new store openings within the United Kingdom. Focus was given to revamping older inner city stores or relocating them. This decision led to the creation of the Maxx Maxx concept, a new department store format that saw T.K. Maxx get away from its budget reputation into a large store format with a wider product range.
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