Introduction The TJX company operates in retail of off-price apparel and home fashion products that was founded in 1987 from parent company Zayre. (Timeline Resource) The TJX company operates through four business divisions which are: Marmaxx, TJX International, HomeGoods and TJX Canada. For 40 years the TJX company has seen growth in sales with it only declining once (Investors) and is one of the few companies to expand successfully international. TJX offers branded apparel and home fashion for lower prices compared to department stores. The vision of TJX is for the company to expand their business to grow to be a major international off-price retailer in the world. (TJX investors) Financial Analysis The company TJX has seeing a raise for the last 33 years in consecutive that have surpass Macy’s which was once a higher value competitor. This year the TJX company had a profitability measure of return of assets ( ROA ) at 19.7% since Jan 28, 2017 for one year cycle according to the S&P database. (Resource) The company’s strategy is having new merchandise for customers that leads to previous customers coming back for newer items more frequently. …show more content…
(Investors) While TJX is a company that continues to exceed sales in 2016 by 1% (increase?) in revenues (checkbyforthisfact) compare to the negative numbers competitors received. (Wall) The key issue that TJX faces is their interest in online marketing. The company is focusing in on opening more locations instead they should be more interested in online marketing. That could be a fatal mistake for TJX especially with (numbers) like 5,321 stores closing this year alone. (Retail) The push for TJX to invest more in online technology since in 200X fell victim to a cyber-attack that calculated up to # millions to have been stolen. (Cyber Attack) (Should add an ending