Profile: Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (BBBY.O)

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., along with its subsidiaries, is a chain of retail stores, operating under the names Bed Bath & Beyond (BBB), Christmas Tree Shops (CTS), Harmon and Harmon Face Values (Harmon) and buybuy BABY. The Company sells an assortment of merchandise, principally including domestics merchandise and home furnishings, as well as food, giftware, health and beauty care items, and infant and toddler merchandise. Domestics merchandise includes categories, such as bed linens and related items, bath items and kitchen textiles. Home furnishings include categories, such as kitchen and tabletop items, fine tabletop, basic housewares and general home furnishings.

The Company’s 1,037 stores operate in 49 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Canada, including 930 BBB stores operating in 49 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Canada; 52 CTS stores operating in 13 states; 40 Harmon stores operating in three states, and 15 buybuy BABY stores operating in eight states. During the fiscal year ended February 28, 2009 (fiscal 2009), the Company opened a total of 67 new stores, including 49 BBB stores throughout the United States and Canada, 11 CTS stores, one Harmon store and six buybuy BABY stores, and closed one Harmon store. Since May 2008, the Company, through a joint venture, operates two stores in Mexico under the name Home & More.