{"id":3295,"date":"2013-10-21T12:16:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T12:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2013-10-21T12:16:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T12:16:40","slug":"company-snapshot-hsn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2013\/10\/company-snapshot-hsn\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Snapshot: HSN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/2013\/10\/chain-store-guide-through-the-ages-1980s\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"CSG History 1970s\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/blogpic_1980s.jpg\" alt=\"Chain Store Guide Through The Ages\" width=\"175\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><strong>Address:<\/strong><br \/>\n2501 118th Ave N<br \/>\nST. PETERSBURG, FL 33716-1920<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phone:<\/strong><br \/>\n727 872-1000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year Founded<\/strong>:<br \/>\n1982<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Stores<\/strong>:<br \/>\n4- HSN Outlets<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Annual Sales<\/strong>:<br \/>\n$3,266,700,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senior Executives:<\/strong><br \/>\nMindy Grossman- CEO<br \/>\nJudy Schmeling- COO, CFO<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A new concept in retailing, HSN began operations in 1982 as the Home Shopping Club on a Florida cable channel. This was in the early days of cable television. The company expanded into the first national shopping network three years later, and changed its name to the Home Shopping Network. Its primary competitor QVC began operations during the following year.<\/p>\n<p>The company scaled its corporate moniker down to its initials as it diversified operations between television networks, the Internet and its outlet stores.\u00a0 The HSN brand serves the company well as it seeks a strong platform in the burgeoning market of social media.<\/p>\n<p>Merchandising under current management has sought to differentiate the retailer from all types of competition, including other shopping television channels, brick and mortar retailers and Internet retail sites.\u00a0 Here HSN continues to seek exclusives on products and celebrity presentations.\u00a0 Thus a line of ladies fashion apparel offered by Serena Williams has proven one of the company\u2019s most popular exclusives and television draws.\u00a0\u00a0 Similarly, celebrity chefs have proven popular, offering branded cookware and food preparation products.\u00a0 Wolfgang Puck has become a fixture and a most popular HSN attraction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/2013\/10\/chain-store-guide-through-the-ages-1980s\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"80yrs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/80yrs_3a.png\" alt=\"CSG 80 Years\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a><em>This year, Chain Store Guide celebrates its 80th anniversary. In honor of this occasion, we are hosting a monthly series of editorials called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/2013\/10\/chain-store-guide-through-the-ages-1980s\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chain Store Guide Through The Ages<\/a>\u201d, starting with the 1930s. We will take a look at what was happening in that time and how it affected the industries we now serve. Our <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/tag\/snapshot\" target=\"_blank\">Company Snapshots<\/a> will examine companies from that period and see where they are today.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: 2501 118th Ave N ST. PETERSBURG, FL 33716-1920 Phone: 727 872-1000 Year Founded: 1982 Total Stores: 4- HSN Outlets Total Annual Sales: $3,266,700,000 Senior Executives: Mindy Grossman- CEO Judy Schmeling- COO, CFO &nbsp; A new concept in retailing, HSN began operations in 1982 as the Home Shopping Club on a Florida cable channel. This&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2013\/10\/company-snapshot-hsn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Company Snapshot: HSN<\/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-3295","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\/3295","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=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}