Ross Stores - Fashion Company Profile
Ross Stores is the Dublin, California off-price retailer behind Ross Dress for Less and dd's DISCOUNTS - an S&P 500 company (Nasdaq: ROST) selling name brand apparel and home fashions at 20% to 60% off department store prices.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Operating - the largest off-price apparel and home fashion retailer in the United States, still expanding: the company reports fiscal 2025 revenues of $22.8 billion
- Type
- Public - Ross Stores, Inc., Nasdaq: ROST (S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 component)
- Headquarters
- Dublin, California, United States (5130 Hacienda Drive)
- Founded
- 1982 - investors bought the six-store Ross department store chain (first store San Bruno, California, 1950) and converted it to the off-price format; public since 1985
Company Profile
Ross carries no shop box on this page: it is a retailer, not a product brand, and its merchandise is other companies' labels sold in its own stores - the store locator on its website, linked in the references below, is the way to shop it. Its scale today, by the company's own fiscal 2025 boilerplate, is 1,917 Ross Dress for Less locations in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico, plus 366 dd's DISCOUNTS stores in 23 states, on $22.8 billion of revenue. Set beside the fiscal 2013 record kept in the profile below - 1,146 stores and $10.2 billion - it is one of the clearest before-and-after pairs in this directory.
The record this profile keeps is dated fiscal 2013, and it is worth keeping with its date attached. The company was then an S&P 500, Fortune 500 and Nasdaq 100 (ROST) company with fiscal 2013 revenues of $10.2 billion, operating 1,146 Ross locations in 33 states, the District of Columbia and Guam as of May 4, 2013, plus 130 dd's DISCOUNTS stores in ten states as of March 2014. The filed addresses place the corporate office at 5130 Hacienda Drive, Dublin, California, with distribution centers in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and Moreno Valley, California - a bicoastal logistics footprint behind a West-Coast-born chain.
The Chain Since the Filing
The decade after the filing roughly doubled the company. Ross's headquarters today is Dublin, California - the same Hacienda Drive address the filed record lists - and the company's current boilerplate reports fiscal 2025 revenues of $22.8 billion, with 1,917 Ross Dress for Less locations in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico, and 366 dd's DISCOUNTS stores in 23 states offering the same off-price formula at more moderate price points, at savings of 20% to 70% off moderate department and discount store prices. The chain's roots run further back than its off-price format: the first Ross department store opened in San Bruno, California in 1950, and the 1982 purchase of the six-store chain by investors who converted it to off-price is the founding the snapshot carries.
Common Questions
What does Ross Dress for Less sell, and at what savings?
First-quality, in-season name brand and designer apparel, accessories, footwear and home fashions for the whole family, at everyday savings of 20% to 60% off department and specialty store regular prices.
How big is Ross Stores now?
By the company's own fiscal 2025 figures: $22.8 billion in revenues, 1,917 Ross Dress for Less stores in 44 states plus D.C., Guam and Puerto Rico, and 366 dd's DISCOUNTS stores in 23 states. The filed 2013 record - 1,146 Ross stores and $10.2 billion - shows how much of that growth is recent.
Where is Ross Stores headquartered?
Dublin, California, at 5130 Hacienda Drive - the corporate office address already listed in the company's filed record, though the profile of the time described the company as headquartered in Pleasanton, its earlier home.
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