Destination Maternity - Fashion Company Profile
Destination Maternity was the world's largest maternity apparel retailer - the Moorestown, New Jersey company behind Motherhood Maternity and A Pea in the Pod, grown from a 1982 catalog business to more than a thousand locations at its peak. It filed for Chapter 11 in October 2019, Marquee Brands bought its brands and intellectual property, and its stores closed by March 2020; the Motherhood and Pea in the Pod names continue online under Marquee Brands.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- No longer independent - the company filed Chapter 11 on October 21, 2019 and all of its stores closed by March 2020; its brands and intellectual property were bought by Marquee Brands, and Motherhood Maternity and A Pea in the Pod continue online under Marquee ownership (operated in North America by Hatch Collective)
- Type
- Was public - NASDAQ: DEST
- Headquarters
- Moorestown, New Jersey, United States (at the time of the filing)
- Founded
- 1982, in Moorestown, New Jersey, as Mothers Work, Inc., a catalog business
Company Profile
The company itself no longer operates, so this is a historical profile with no shop box and no official-site button: the four-brand structure, the flagship record and the store counts below belong to the period described and are kept in full on the history page. Today's Motherhood Maternity and A Pea in the Pod ranges sit with their present owner, Marquee Brands.
Above that record sits the directory(?:'|')s later news line, kept with its date: on October 21, 2019, Destination Maternity Corporation announced that it and certain of its subsidiaries had filed voluntary petitions to restructure under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The Apparel Search blog(?:'|')s report of the filing is linked from this page. This page therefore reads the way the directory itself reads - a full company profile of the market's creator, headed by the dated notice of its restructuring - and it is kept as a historical profile, making no claim about the brands' present ownership beyond what the record shows.
Destination Maternity History
The earlier record for this company - its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
Destination Maternity History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
Who founded Destination Maternity, and when?
Rebecca Matthias, who saw a need for fashionable maternity clothing; the company was founded in 1982 as a catalog business and held its initial public offering in March 1993, in the historical record.
Which brands did it operate?
Four specialty maternity brands - A Pea in the Pod (formerly Mimi Maternity), A Pea in the Pod Collection, Motherhood Maternity and Destination Maternity - plus the exclusive Oh Baby! by Motherhood, and Edamame maternity spas, in the historical record.
What happened to the company in 2019?
On October 21, 2019 it announced voluntary Chapter 11 restructuring petitions for itself and certain subsidiaries in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, in the historical record(?:'|')s dated notice, with the Apparel Search blog report linked from this page.
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