Organization Overview: TJX Companies Inc.

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The TJX Companies, Incorporated (NYSE: TJX), is the largest international apparel and home fashions off-price department store chain in the United States. Based in Framingham, Massachusetts, the company originally evolved from the Zayre discount department store chain, founded in 1956, which opened its first branch of T.J. Maxx in 1976 and its first BJ's Wholesale Club in 1984. In 1988, Zayre sold their own nameplate to Ames, a rival discount department store chain, and the company renamed itself to The TJX Companies, Incorporated. - Stanley Feldberg was one of the 1956 founders of Zayre Corp. He served as President of Zayre until 1978, and afterwards remained on the Board of Directors, until he retired in 1989. - After separation from Zayre, by 1989 the TJX company consisted of its one...