Ross Stores To Open 60 New Locations In 2021
Ross Stores announced the opening of four Ross Dress for Less and three dd's DISCOUNTS locations across five states in February and March 2021. This initiative is part of a broader plan to open approximately 60 new stores in fiscal 2021, including 40 Ross and 20 dd's DISCOUNTS locations. Currently, the company operates a total of 1,866 stores across 40 states, with a long-term goal of reaching 2,400 Ross and 600 dd's DISCOUNTS locations. Fiscal 2020 revenues were reported at $12.5 billion.
- Opening of seven new stores indicates strong expansion strategy.
- Company aims for long-term growth with plans for 60 new stores in 2021.
- Current operations include 1,866 locations, with potential to grow significantly.
- Ongoing COVID-19 pandemic poses risks to distribution and store operations.
- Uncertainties in consumer spending influence future performance.
DUBLIN, Calif., March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Ross Stores recently opened four Ross Dress for Less® ("Ross") and three dd's DISCOUNTS® stores across five different states in February and March. These new locations are part of the Company's plans to add approximately 60 new stores – 40 Ross and 20 dd's DISCOUNTS locations – during fiscal 2021.
"These recent openings reflect our ongoing plans to continue the expansion of our two chains," said Gregg McGillis, Group Executive Vice President, Property Development. "We now operate a total of 1,866 Ross Dress for Less and dd's DISCOUNTS locations across 40 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam. As we look out over the long-term, we remain confident that Ross can grow to 2,400 locations and dd's DISCOUNTS can become a chain of 600 stores given consumers' ongoing focus on value and convenience."
Forward-Looking Statements: This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding projected sales and earnings, planned new store growth, and other financial results and market conditions in future periods that are subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause our actual results to differ materially from management's current expectations. The words "plan," "expect," "target," "anticipate," "estimate," "believe," "forecast," "projected," "guidance," "outlook," "looking ahead," and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. Risk factors for Ross Dress for Less® ("Ross") and dd's DISCOUNTS® include without limitation, the uncertainties and potential for further significant business disruptions arising from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, including potential distribution center and store closures and restrictions on customer access; changes in the level of consumer spending on or preferences for apparel and home-related merchandise; impacts from the macro-economic environment, financial and credit markets, geopolitical conditions, unemployment levels or public health issues (such as pandemics) that affect consumer confidence and consumer disposable income; our need to effectively manage our inventories, markdowns, and inventory shortage to achieve planned gross margins; competitive pressures in the apparel or home-related merchandise retailing industry; issues from selling and importing merchandise produced in other countries and from supply chain disruptions in other countries, including due to COVID-19 closures; unseasonable weather that may affect shopping patterns and consumer demand for seasonal apparel and other merchandise, and may result in temporary store closures and disruptions in deliveries of merchandise to our stores; market availability, quantity, and quality of attractive brand name merchandise at desirable discounts and our buyers' ability to purchase merchandise that enables us to offer customers a wide assortment of merchandise at competitive prices; potential data security breaches, including cyber-attacks on our transaction processing and computer information systems, which could result in theft or unauthorized disclosure of customer, credit card, employee, or other private and valuable information that we handle in the ordinary course of our business; potential disruptions in our supply chain or information systems; issues involving the quality, safety, or authenticity of products we sell, which could harm our reputation, result in lost sales, and/or increase our costs; an adverse outcome in various legal, regulatory, or tax matters; damage to our corporate reputation or brands; our need to continually attract, train, and retain associates to execute our off-price strategies; our need to effectively advertise and market our business; changes in U.S. tax, tariff, or trade policy regarding apparel and home-related merchandise produced in other countries that could adversely affect our business; volatility in revenues and earnings; an additional pandemic, natural or man-made disaster in California or in another region where we have a concentration of stores, offices, or a distribution center; unexpected issues or costs from expanding in existing markets and entering new geographic markets; obtaining acceptable new store sites with favorable consumer demographics; and maintaining sufficient liquidity to support our continuing operations, new store openings and reopenings, and ongoing capital expenditure plans. Other risk factors are set forth in our SEC filings including without limitation, the Form 10-K for fiscal 2019, fiscal 2020 Form 10-Qs, and fiscal 2021 Form 8-K on file with the SEC. The factors underlying our forecasts are dynamic and subject to change. As a result, our forecasts speak only as of the date they are given and do not necessarily reflect our outlook at any other point in time. We do not undertake to update or revise these forward-looking statements.
Ross Stores, Inc. is an S&P 500, Fortune 500, and Nasdaq 100 (ROST) company headquartered in Dublin, California, with fiscal 2020 revenues of
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