JCPenney is one of America's leading retailers, operating 1,083 department stores throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, as well as one of the largest apparel and home furnishing sites on the Internet, jcp.com, and the nation's largest general merchandise catalog business. JCPenney offers a wide array of national, private and exclusive brands which reflect the Company's commitment to providing customers with style and quality at a smart price. JCPenney posted revenue of $19.9 billion in 2007 and is executing its strategic plan to be the growth leader in the retail industry.

http://www.jcpenney.com/ 

Based in Menomonee Falls, Wis., Kohl’s is a family-focused, value-oriented specialty department store offering moderately priced, exclusive and national brand apparel, shoes, accessories, beauty and home products in an exciting shopping environment. Kohl’s operates 957 stores in 47 states and will celebrate the opening of its 1,000th store in the fall.

The TJX Companies, Inc., is the largest apparel and home fashions off-price retailer in the United States and worldwide, with eight businesses and over 2,500 stores and nearly 130,000 Associates. At 2007’s year-end, TJX’s off-price concepts included T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, and A.J. Wright, in the U.S., Winners and HomeSense in Canada, and T.K. Maxx in Europe. Their core target customer is a middle- to upper-middle-income shopper, who is fashion and value conscious and fits the same profile as a department store shopper and A.J. Wright reaches a more moderate-income market.

http://www.tjmaxx.com/ 

The Company is a specialty retailer of private branded, sophisticated, casual-to-dressy clothing, intimates, complementary accessories, and other non-clothing gift items. The Company operates 1,083 women's specialty stores, including stores in 49 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico operating under the Chico's, White House | Black Market and Soma Intimates names. The Company has 622 Chico's front-line stores, 41 Chico's outlet stores, 329 White House | Black Market front-line stores, 19 White House | Black Market outlet stores, 71 Soma Intimates front-line stores and 1 Soma Intimates outlet store.

http://www.chicos.com/