Investor Information

Seizing the Day!

The TJX Companies, Inc. is the largest off-price apparel and home fashions retailer in the U.S. and worldwide. We are an unconventional retailer and operate with an extremely flexible business model that allows us to navigate various economic and retail cycles successfully. In our 33-year history, our annual consolidated comparable store sales have declined only once. We turn inventories in our stores about nine times per year, which allows our buyers to buy with short lead times and drives merchandise margins. Our store layouts have “no walls” between departments, which allows us to shift categories quickly as consumers' tastes change. We source merchandise globally and operate more like a sourcing machine than most retailers. The unusual economic environment continues to present us with major opportunities, and we are seizing the day! We are advertising more effectively and doing a great deal to make sure that our customers have terrific shopping experiences and believe that we will not only retain our new customers even when times improve, but will continue to attract more new ones. We also continue to add to our vendor base, opening over 2,000 new vendor doors in 2009 alone. Further, the economic environment is providing us with very favorable real estate opportunities which we expect will benefit us for years to come. Our growth vehicles are working; we have expanded successfully in six countries; and we have tremendous opportunities domestically and internationally. We operate with a low cost structure and an ROI focus, enabling us to deliver strong financial returns. We are excited about our opportunities for the future and confident in our ability to ultimately double the size of TJX over time! To learn more about the reasons for our confidence, we invite you to read more about our Key Success Factors, below. We encourage you to consult this Investor Information section of our website regularly as we routinely post information that may be important to investors.