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Home > Company Index > Retail > Home Furnishing & Housewares Retailing > The Container Store

The Container Store
 PROFILE
With its packets, pockets, holders, and boxes, The Container Store has the storage products niche well-contained. Its merchandise ranges from backpacks to recipe holders. The home organization pioneer has more than 20 stores, mostly in major cities in Texas, Illinois, California, Florida, Colorado, Georgia, and New York, and also in Washington, D.C. The stores carry up to 10,000 items; the company's Elfa brand wire shelving accounts for about one-fifth of sales. The company touts a low employee turnover rate, thanks in part to high wages. CEO Garrett Boone and president Kip Tindell own the company. They met in 1969 working in a Montgomery Ward paint department and opened their first store in Dallas in 1978.

 COMPETITION
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 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: March
2001 Sales (mil.): 260.00
1-Yr. Sales Growth: 8.3%
Employees: 1,500
Revenue per employee: $173,333.33

 KEY PEOPLE
• Garrett Boone
    CEO
• Keath Hance
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
2000 Valwood Pkwy.
Dallas, TX 75234
US
Phone: 214-654-2000
Fax: 214-654-2003
Online: Web Site

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