TK Maxx - Fashion Company Profile
TK Maxx is TJ Maxx's European sibling - launched in the U.K. in 1994 with its name respelled to avoid confusion with T. J. Hughes, and still Europe's only major off-price apparel retailer, with well over 650 stores.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Operating - well over 650 stores across the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Poland, Austria, the Netherlands and Australia
- Type
- Division of TJX International, part of The TJX Companies, Inc. (NYSE: TJX)
- Headquarters
- United Kingdom (parent TJX headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States)
- Founded
- Launched in the U.K. in 1994, introducing the off-price concept to Britain
Company Profile
TK Maxx is a retailer, so this page carries no marketplace shop box; the button above leads to its U.K. site. The 2006 record below - 210 stores in the U.K. and Ireland, Germany still a plan - has become a seven-country chain, and its founding distinction stands: it brought off-price to Europe and remains the continent's only major practitioner of it.
With stores averaging approximately 30,000 square feet, T.K. Maxx offered 'great values on brand name family apparel, women's footwear, lingerie, accessories, and home fashions' - the TJ Maxx formula transplanted whole. The 2006 plans were continental: a net 10 stores in the U.K. and Ireland in 2007, a long-term potential of about 275 stores there, and 'five stores in Germany, their first in that country, in 2007.'
Why the K? And What Happened Next
The name is the answer to a trademark problem: when TJX brought its flagship to Britain in 1994 it respelled TJ as TK to avoid confusion with T. J. Hughes, the long-established Liverpool discount retailer. The German beachhead planned in the filing duly opened, and the chain kept going - TK Maxx today trades across the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Poland, Austria and the Netherlands, and in Australia, with well over 650 stores in total.
It remains, as in 2006, Europe's only major off-price apparel retailer - the concept's inventor on the continent as well as its largest practitioner. This page carries no shop box: TK Maxx is a retailer, and its own site, linked above, is the place for current stores and ranges.
Common Questions
Why is TJ Maxx called TK Maxx in Europe?
To avoid confusion with T. J. Hughes, an established British discount retailer, when TJX launched the chain in the U.K. in 1994. The stores, format and off-price model are otherwise the same.
When did TK Maxx launch?
In the U.K. in 1994, introducing the off-price concept to Britain; Ireland followed, then Germany in 2007, and the chain now also trades in Poland, Austria, the Netherlands and Australia.
How many TK Maxx stores are there?
Well over 650 across Europe and Australia today, against 210 in the U.K. and Ireland at the end of 2006 in the record kept in this profile.
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