{"id":2508,"date":"2012-12-24T08:05:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T13:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2012-12-24T08:05:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T13:05:27","slug":"company-snapshot-brookstone-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2012\/12\/company-snapshot-brookstone-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Snapshot: Brookstone Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Address:<\/strong><br \/>\nOne Innovation Way<br \/>\nMerrimack, NH 03054<\/p>\n<p><strong>Telephone:<\/strong><br \/>\n603 880-9500<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fax:<\/strong><br \/>\n603-577-8004<\/p>\n<p><strong>Internet Homepage:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookstone.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.brookstone.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Year Founded:<\/strong><br \/>\n1965<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Stores:<\/strong><br \/>\n282<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Annual Sales:<\/strong><br \/>\n$496,766,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senior Executives:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Stephen Bebis<\/strong><br \/>\nPresident and Chief Executive Officer<br \/>\n<strong>Thomas F. Moynihan<\/strong><br \/>\nVice President, Chief Financial Officer<br \/>\n<strong>James M. Speltz<\/strong><br \/>\nVice President, Chief Operating Officer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Brookstone Inc. started out in 1965 not as a brick and mortar retailer but as an upstart offering \u2018hard to find tools\u2019 through classified ads in Popular Mechanics magazine. Later the company offered varied expanded selections of its increasingly distinct product offerings through its first catalog. This was initially published in black and white and offered in a twenty four page volume.<\/p>\n<p>After more than a decade of carefully planned, successive store count expansions, the company has slightly reduced its volume stores going from an early recession count of 314 to the current 282 over a four year period. While the recession has seen progressive drops in sales, sales as of December 2011 roses to just over the mark reflecting Brookstone\u2019s fiscal 2008, which saw sales drop from an all-time high of $562,835,000 for fiscal 2007. Not a bad record considering the severity of the recession on upscale retailers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: One Innovation Way Merrimack, NH 03054 Telephone: 603 880-9500 Fax: 603-577-8004 Internet Homepage: http:\/\/www.brookstone.com Year Founded: 1965 Total Stores: 282 Total Annual Sales: $496,766,000 Senior Executives: Stephen Bebis President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas F. Moynihan Vice President, Chief Financial Officer James M. Speltz Vice President, Chief Operating Officer &nbsp; Brookstone Inc. started out&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2012\/12\/company-snapshot-brookstone-inc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Company Snapshot: Brookstone Inc.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discount-specialty","tag-snapshot","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}