Winners
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{{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]
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[[Category:Department stores of Canada]]
[[Category:Clothing retailers of Canada]]
[[Category:Companies based in Mississauga]]
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