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• Garden Ridge.(CASE IN POINT)(Company Profile)

  - 2006-02-01

  While shrink is a fact of life for all retailers, executives at home decor and craft store Garden Ridge found their shrink rate of two percent of annual sales unacceptable. Although management had a general idea where the losses were coming from, it was impossible to implement...

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• Garden Ridge closing Airtex store.(Retail Briefs)

  - 2005-12-05

  Garden Ridge plans to close its Houston Airtex store in January after losing the store's lease and will be relocating it later in 2006. Airtex will start liquidating merchandise immediately. "This is a bittersweet moment in...

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• Garden ridge restructures merchandising group; retailer reports July comp-sales increase.(PEOPLE Today)

  - 2005-08-22

  HOUSTON -- Garden Ridge has restructured its merchandising group and store operations team. Linda Troy, a 13-year Garden Ridge veteran, was promoted to vice president and general merchandising manager and will oversee the fashion forward, assortment-driven departments of Garden Ridge. ...

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• Garden Ridge elevates Pruitt.(PEOPLE Today)(appointment of Mark Pruitt )(Brief Article)

  - 2005-07-25

  HOUSTON -- Garden Ridge has promoted Mark Pruitt to vice president of stores operations, distribution and logistics. Pruitt previously had responsibility for distribution and logistics and has 18 years of experience with the company. "Promoting a...

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• Garden Ridge comps jump.(News)(company sales and revenue)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-07-25

  HOUSTON -- Garden Ridge stated that June comp sales increased 9.9 percent over last year and gross margin dollars were up 6.2 percent. For the fiscal year to date, comp sales are up 6.3 percent. "The response...

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• Garden Ridge Comps Jump (Home Textiles Today)

  - 2005-07-25

  Houston --Garden Ridge stated that June comp sales increased 9.9 percent over last year and gross margin dollars were up 6.2 percent. For the fiscal year to date, comp sales are up 6.3 percent. "The response from customers to our...

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• Out of the woods and Ch. 11, Garden Ridge re-emerges

  - 2005-07-11

  The month of May brought both a new ceo and bankruptcy emergence for home decor retailer Garden Ridge. The new ceo is Mary MeNabb, formerly evp of marketing at Factory 2-U Stores. Garden Ridge, a $400 million chain, closed nine stores and one distribution center during its reorganization and now...

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• Garden Ridge hires Harmon, ups comps.(PEOPLE Today)(appointed Bill Harmon as vice president, marketing and information technology. )(Brief Article)

  - 2005-06-20

  Houston -- Garden Ridge has named Bill Harmon vice president, marketing and information technology. He was most recently senior vice president, marketing, at The Bon-Ton Department Stores. Harmon also served as senior vice president, merchandise planning, for Foley's Department Stores. ...

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• Garden Ridge taps new CEO.(Retail Briefs)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-05-23

  Garden Ridge has named Mary McNabb CEO. She was most recently executive vice president of merchandising and marketing at Factory 2-U Stores. The company has also completed its reorganization while posting at 6.9 percent comp sales increase for April, its fifth...

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• Court OKs Garden Ridge reorg plan.(Retail Briefs)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-05-09

  The Delaware Bankruptcy Court last week confirmed Garden Ridge's plan of reorganization. The plan provides for the distribution of preferred stock to general unsecured creditors and cash distributions to convenience creditors and qualified reclamation creditors. The plan is based on a...

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