Sears Holdings

Sears Holdings Corporation
Company type	Public;
Traded as	OTC Pink: SHLDQ (common stock); OTC Pink: SHLWQ (warrants); Nasdaq: SHLD;
Industry	Retail
Genre	Big-box stores; department stores;
Predecessors	Kmart Holding Corporation; Sears, Roebuck and Co.;
Founded	March 24, 2005
Defunct	June 2019
Fate	Chapter 11 bankruptcy; assets sold to ESL Investments and moved to its new subsidiary
Successor	Transformco
Headquarters	3333 Beverly Road, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, US
Number of locations	766 (Q3 2018)
Areas served	United States;
Key people	Eddie Lampert (former chairman and CEO); Mohsin Y. Meghji (chief restructuring officer); Office of the CEO: Leena Munjal (Chief Digital Officer); Greg Ladley (President of Apparel and Footwear); Robert A. Riecker (Chief Financial Officer);
Revenue	US$13.2 billion (FY2019)
Operating income	US$−1.43 billion (FY2018)
Net income	US$−1.7 billion (FY2019)
Total assets	US$6.7 billion (FY2019)
Total equity	US$−1.72 billion (FY2019)
Number of employees	85,000 (2019)
Subsidiaries	Kmart (2005–2019); Sears (2005–2019);
Website	Archive of website before company dissolved

Sears Holdings Corporation was an American holding company headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. It was the parent company of the chain stores Kmart and Sears and was founded after the former purchased the latter in 2005.^[7] It was the 20th-largest retailing company in the United States in 2015.^[8] It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 15, 2018, and sold its assets to ESL Investments in 2019.^[9] The new owner moved Sears assets to its newly formed subsidiary Transform Holdco LLC and after that, Sears Holdings Corporation was closed.

^ "2015 Form 10-K, Sears Holding Company" (PDF). Sears Holdings.
^ "ESL Investments Completes Acquisition of Sears Holdings' Assets". www.businesswire.com. February 11, 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
^ "Document". www.sec.gov.
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^ Barbash, Fred; Barbaro, Michael (November 17, 2004). "Sears, Kmart To Merge in $11B Deal". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
^ "Top100 Table". nrf.com. National Retail Federation.
^ Corkery, Michael (14 October 2018). "Sears, the Original Everything Store, Files for Bankruptcy". The New York Times.

[10K-1] "2015 Form 10-K, Sears Holding Company" (PDF). Sears Holdings.

[2] "ESL Investments Completes Acquisition of Sears Holdings' Assets". www.businesswire.com. February 11, 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-02.

[3] "Document". www.sec.gov.

[D-4] "Sears Holdings". Forbes.

[5] "SEARS HOLDINGS CORP (SHLDQ) Income Statement - Yahoo Finance". finance.yahoo.com.

[6] "SEARS HOLDINGS CORP (SHLDQ) Balance Sheet - Yahoo Finance". finance.yahoo.com.

[7] Barbash, Fred; Barbaro, Michael (November 17, 2004). "Sears, Kmart To Merge in $11B Deal". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 23, 2010.

[8] "Top100 Table". nrf.com. National Retail Federation.

[nyt1-9] Corkery, Michael (14 October 2018). "Sears, the Original Everything Store, Files for Bankruptcy". The New York Times.

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Company type	Public
Traded as	OTC Pink: SHLDQ (common stock) OTC Pink: SHLWQ (warrants) Nasdaq: SHLD
Industry	Retail
Genre	Big-box stores department stores
Predecessors	Kmart Holding Corporation Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Founded	March 24, 2005; 19 years ago (March 24, 2005)^[1]
Defunct	June 2019; 5 years ago (June 2019)
Fate	Chapter 11 bankruptcy; assets sold to ESL Investments and moved to its new subsidiary
Successor	Transformco^[2]
Headquarters	3333 Beverly Road, Hoffman Estates, Illinois , US
Number of locations	766^[3] (Q3 2018)
Areas served	United States
Key people	Eddie Lampert (former chairman and CEO) Mohsin Y. Meghji (chief restructuring officer) Office of the CEO: Leena Munjal (Chief Digital Officer) Greg Ladley (President of Apparel and Footwear) Robert A. Riecker (Chief Financial Officer)
Revenue	US$13.2 billion (FY2019)^[4]
Operating income	US$−1.43 billion (FY2018)^[5]
Net income	US$−1.7 billion (FY2019)^[4]
Total assets	US$6.7 billion (FY2019)^[4]
Total equity	US$−1.72 billion (FY2019)^[6]
Number of employees	85,000 (2019)^[4]
Subsidiaries	Kmart (2005–2019) Sears (2005–2019)
Website	Archive of website before company dissolved

Sears Holdings

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