{"id":3592,"date":"2014-02-24T11:05:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T11:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=3592"},"modified":"2014-02-24T11:05:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T11:05:35","slug":"company-snapshot-kirklands-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2014\/02\/company-snapshot-kirklands-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Snapshot: Kirkland&#039;s Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Address:<\/strong><br \/>\n2501 McGavock Pike<br \/>\nSte 1000<br \/>\nNashville, TN 37214-1237<\/p>\n<p><strong>Telephone:<\/strong><br \/>\n615-872-4800<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year Founded:<\/strong><br \/>\n1966<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Stores:<\/strong><br \/>\n319<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Annual Sales:<\/strong><br \/>\n$460,600,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senior Executives:<\/strong><br \/>\nRobert E Alderson- President. CEO<br \/>\nW. Michael Madden- Senior VP, CFO, Corporate Secretary<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A publicly traded company, Kirkland\u2019s was founded in 1966 by Carl T. Kirkland.\u00a0 Mr. Kirkland served as the company\u2019s first President and CEO from its founding until 1997 when he relinquished the presidency.\u00a0 In December 2004, Mr. Kirkland stepped aside as CEO and Chairman of the Board and has been Chairman Emeritus ever since.<\/p>\n<p>No one should doubt the influence Mr. Kirkland continues to exert over the company, years after his retirement.\u00a0 Mr. Kirkland maintains a key seat on the board of directors and continues to lead key corporate committees.\u00a0 His lengthy, updated company summary, <em>A Note from our Founder,<\/em> warmly greets investors and shoppers alike on the corporate website.<\/p>\n<p>The company has struggled a bit, like most others through the recession.\u00a0 Prior to the recession, the company was opening stores at a healthy moderate pace, adding about 30 locations a year.\u00a0 Between 2007 and 2009, the company experienced consecutive years of net losses in store totals, going from 349 to 279.\u00a0 More recently the company has experienced modest growth in locations.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this somewhat rough picture, the company has handled recessionary economics rather well.\u00a0 After continuous years of consistent pre-recession annual sales increases, the company experienced just two years of negative sales totals.\u00a0 The first, at the start of the recession, indicate a negative of eleven percent.\u00a0 During the next year, the company suffered its second consecutive and thus far last negative in annual sales, a mere 1.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: 2501 McGavock Pike Ste 1000 Nashville, TN 37214-1237 Telephone: 615-872-4800 Year Founded: 1966 Total Stores: 319 Total Annual Sales: $460,600,000 Senior Executives: Robert E Alderson- President. CEO W. Michael Madden- Senior VP, CFO, Corporate Secretary &nbsp; A publicly traded company, Kirkland\u2019s was founded in 1966 by Carl T. Kirkland.\u00a0 Mr. Kirkland served as the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2014\/02\/company-snapshot-kirklands-inc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Company Snapshot: Kirkland&#039;s 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-3592","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\/3592","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=3592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}