{"id":4784,"date":"2015-02-23T10:51:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T10:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=4784"},"modified":"2015-02-23T10:51:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T10:51:20","slug":"company-snapshot-kirklands-inc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2015\/02\/company-snapshot-kirklands-inc-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Snapshot: Kirkland&#039;s Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Address:<\/strong><br \/>\n5310 Maryland Way<br \/>\nBrentwood, TN 37027<\/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 \/>\n344<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Annual Sales:<\/strong><br \/>\n$507,600,000<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senior Executives:<\/strong><br \/>\nW. Michael Madden- President. CEO<br \/>\nAdam C. Holland- VP, CFO<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kirkland\u2019s has made several significant corporate moves during the past fiscal, each indicating a step in the direction of growth.\u00a0 First the retailer doubled its headquarters space by moving to a new location in Brentwood, TN from its longtime home in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month the company announced major executive changes.\u00a0 Longtime President and CEO Robert E Alderson retired from this position though he maintains his place on the board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>He has been replaced by W. Michael Madden, who was promoted to President, CEO from his old post of Senior VP, CFO and Corporate Secretary.\u00a0 At the same time Adam Holland was promoted to VP, CFO from his former position of VP of Finance and Chief Accounting Officer.<\/p>\n<p>The retailer also fared well as per its recently announced fiscal year-end, annual financials.\u00a0 Net annual sales increased 10.2% to $507.6 million compared with $460.6\u00a0million for its previous fiscal year. \u00a0Comparable store sales for fiscal 2014, including e-commerce sales, increased 6.1% compared with a 0.5% increase in fiscal 2013. The Company opened 34 stores while closing 14 during fiscal 2014 and ended the fiscal year with 344 retail locations.<\/p>\n<p>Founder Carl Kirkland continues to exert influence over the company, years after his retirement.\u00a0 Mr. Kirkland maintains a seat on the board of directors as an independent director.\u00a0 He continues to go to his office a couple of times a week.\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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address: 5310 Maryland Way Brentwood, TN 37027 Telephone: 615-872-4800 Year Founded: 1966 Total Stores: 344 Total Annual Sales: $507,600,000 Senior Executives: W. Michael Madden- President. CEO Adam C. Holland- VP, CFO &nbsp; Kirkland\u2019s has made several significant corporate moves during the past fiscal, each indicating a step in the direction of growth.\u00a0 First the retailer&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2015\/02\/company-snapshot-kirklands-inc-2\/\">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-4784","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\/4784","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=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}