Winners 2171647 223324073 2008-07-03T15:53:18Z 192.234.223.100 {{Infobox_Company | company_name = Winners | company_logo = [[Image:Winners logo.svg|220px]] | company_type = [[Department store]] | company_slogan = Winners. Where Else? | foundation = [[1982]] | location = [[Toronto|Mississauga, Ontario]] | industry = Discount | products = Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewellery, beauty products, and housewares. | homepage = http://www.winners.ca/ | }} {{This|the Canadian department store chain|Winner}} '''Winners''' is a chain of off-price [[Canada|Canadian]] [[department store|department stores]] owned by [[TJX Companies]]. It offers brand name clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, fine jewellery, beauty products, and housewares. All merchandise is 20 - 60% below regular department and specialty store prices. The company operated 190 stores at the end of 2006. Winners is modeled after its American sister store [[Marshalls]]. ==History== In [[1982]], Winners was founded in [[Toronto|Toronto, Ontario]]. It was one of the first off-price department stores in Canada. In [[1990]], Winners merged with [[TJX Companies]], the world's largest off-price department store owner. [[Image:Winners Store HFX 2007.jpg|thumb|right|Winners store in Halifax, Nova Scotia]] Since late [[2001]], Winners stores have been paired with [[Homesense]], a home accessory retailer owned by Winners Merchants, modelled on TJX's American [[HomeGoods]] stores. Winners acquired the struggling "Labels" brand from [[Dylex]] in 2001. Labels was meant to compete with Winners, but never succeeded. Most Labels stores have been turned into Homesense stores. In [[2005]], [[Hudson's Bay Company|HBC]] opened a similar concept under the [[Designer Depot]] banner, and [[Les Ailes de la Mode]] opened a similar concept under the Labels banner after Winners did not renew their trademark on the name. ==Controversy== When Winners opened up a brand new location in the prestigious [[Bloor Street|Bloor]] [[Yorkville, Toronto|Yorkville]] area in [[downtown]] Toronto in the [[autumn|fall]] of 2005, community residents were upset because they felt that Winners was too "cheap" to blend in with the [[upmarket|upscale]] stores of the street like [[Tiffany & Co.]] and [[Louis Vuitton]]. ==See also== *[[TJX Companies]] *[[Zayre]] *[[List of department stores#Canada|List of Canadian department stores]] ==External links== *[http://www.winners.ca WINNERS Official Website] *[http://www.tjx.com/ TJX Companies Official Website] {{TJX}} [[Category:Department stores of Canada]] [[Category:Clothing retailers of Canada]] [[Category:Companies based in Mississauga]] [[fr:Winners]] [[ko:위너스]]