disambiguation . coldwater creek type private industry clothing founded 1984 headquarters hingham massachusetts key people dave walde chief executive officer brenda koskinen president & chief merchandising officer revenue 780 million usd 2006 owner sycamore partners number of employees 100 website www.coldwatercreek.com coldwater creek is an american catalog and online retailer of women s apparel accessories and home d cor . history edit in 1984 dennis and ann pence relocated from manhattan to the resort town of sandpoint in northern idaho to start a direct mail business . by 1990 millions of catalogs were being mailed . in 1995 coldwater opened its first retail store and by 2014 had 365 locations in operation nationwide including several outlet stores . its website launched in 2000 . business conditions became increasingly difficult with the 2008 recession and on april 11 2014 coldwater creek announced that it was filing for chapter 7 bankruptcy and ceasing operations as of early summer 2014 . sycamore partners owner of brands including talbots nine west stuart weitzman and more purchased coldwater creek s intellectual property use of the name logo and customer list through cwc direct llc and opened new headquarters in hingham ma . on november 3 2014 coldwater creek was relaunched as a catalog and online retailer . 1 2 3 notes edit hsu tiffany 2014 04 11 . bankrupt coldwater creek plans mother s day liquidation sales . los angeles times . latimes.com . retrieved 2014 04 20 . coldwater creek to shut down all stores . denver business journal . april 11 2014 . retrieved april 20 2014 . coldwater creek flows into sycamore s pool of apparel brands . june 9 2014 . this idaho related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title coldwater creek & oldid 739804735 categories clothing retailers of the united statesclothing brands of the united statesamerican companies established in 1984companies that have filed for chapter 11 bankruptcycompanies disestablished in 2014idaho stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 17 september 2016 at 03 30 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view