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Puskar, File AP. The transaction is expected to be completed by the middle of this month. During their second year in business, the Talbots branched out from in-store retailing and launched a catalog operation.
After buying a list of subscribers to The New Yorker magazine, they distributed 3, black-and-white fliers featuring illustrations of Talbots clothing to these potential customers. By , the Talbots' business had outgrown its first location, and it moved to a two-story colonial frame house that had been built in the 17th century in Hingham. The first floor was given over to sales, and the second floor was converted into office space. The front door of this building was lacquered a bright red, and this architectural touch later became a hallmark of the Talbots chain.
Five years after the expansion, Talbots opened its first branch store, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, a town south of Hingham. Throughout the social and cultural upheavals of the s, Talbots maintained its focus on classic styles and traditional clothing for an affluent, well-educated customer. By the end of the decade, the company's growth in store number and size, along with expanding catalog sales, necessitated larger facilities.
In Talbots moved its business headquarters and mail-order operations to a new location in Hingham. By this time, the company's staff had grown to include 71 employees, who worked in the five New England Talbots stores.
This success attracted the attention of larger companies, and, that year, the Talbots sold their chain of stores to consumer goods giant General Mills. After purchasing the chain, General Mills began a program of limited regional expansion. Over the next seven years, Talbots opened eight new stores in locations throughout New England. In the company moved outside New England for the first time, inaugurating outlets in New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. With these new locations, Talbots's payroll swelled to include people.
Also in , Talbots established a toll-free telephone number to make it easier for customers to order from its catalog. The company also expanded its headquarters facility from 80, to , square feet. Throughout the s, with a heavy infusion of funds from General Mills, Talbots expanded its chain of stores dramatically. The company grew from fewer than 20 stores to stores in just eight years. With each new store that it opened, Talbots implemented its retailing strategy.
The company strove to give all of its outlets the residential feel of the company's original 17th-century Hingham home. Interiors were decorated with maple floors and wainscoting, and walls were hung with traditional botanical and equestrian prints, to simulate the atmosphere of a gracious English home.
In addition, each store was fitted with a bright red door and, wherever possible, matching red awnings over the windows. In Talbots expanded the range of its merchandise offerings when it introduced clothing in petite sizes in both its stores and catalog. In this way, the company hoped to tap into the sizable market of women who needed professional and sophisticated clothing in smaller sizes.
The following year, Talbots expanded its efforts in this area, opening a Talbots Petites store in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Of those revenues, 40 percent were derived from catalog sales. The company's 24 annual glossy and colorful brochures were distributed to 70 million customers throughout the world. To better serve catalog customers, Talbots opened a new catalog fulfillment and merchandise distribution center in Lakeville, Massachusetts, in January The ,square-foot facility processed an average of 20, items a day and was capable of completing two-and-a-half times as many during peak periods, such as the holiday shopping season.
At the start of , General Mills announced that it was divesting itself of its clothing retail operations, to concentrate fully on its food-related businesses. Talbots's corporate parent put it up for sale along with Eddie Bauer, Inc. Spanish retail giant Tendam selects Nedap iD Cloud for sustainable omnichannel fulfillment. From Nedap. From DataFeedWatch Inc. From Revionics. From Aptos. Editors' picks. Latest in Distressed Retail.
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