{"id":8326,"date":"2016-12-09T14:23:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T14:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=8326"},"modified":"2016-12-09T14:23:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T14:23:50","slug":"csg-snapshot-big-lots-stores-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2016\/12\/csg-snapshot-big-lots-stores-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"CSG Snapshot: Big Lots Stores Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/c-77-discount-dollar-specialty-store-leads.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/glance_biglots_2016.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>300 Phillipi Road<br \/>\nColumbus, OH 43228<br \/>\n(614) 278-6800<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biglots.com\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nwww.biglots.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Stores (North America) <\/strong><br \/>\n1,442<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Sales<\/strong><br \/>\n$5.2 billion<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year Founded<\/strong><br \/>\n1967<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trading Areas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senior Executives<\/strong><br \/>\nPresident + CEO: David Campisi<br \/>\nExec VP, COO + Chief Merchandising Officer: Lisa Bachmann<br \/>\nExec VP, CFO + Chief Administrative Officer: Tim Johnson<br \/>\nExec VP Human Resources and Store Operations: Mike Schlonsky<\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #3a64ae;\">SNAP<\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">FORWARD<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Big Lots is on the upswing. The closure of underperforming stores in recent years has helped boost profitability. And a fresh look at merchandising with a focus on what it describes as \u201cownable\u201d and \u201cwinnable\u201d categories like home and housewares has contributed to two years of increased same-store sales \u2013 soon to be three at the end of fiscal 2016.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/biglots_snapshot2016.jpg\" alt=\"big lots\" width=\"454\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: <strong>Chain Store Guide&#8217;s<\/strong> <em>Database of Discount, Dollar &amp; Specialty Stores <\/em>and company reports. *CSG projections based on proprietary analysis and company statements. Actual figures are subject to change. This data is not intended for investment decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>300 Phillipi Road Columbus, OH 43228 (614) 278-6800 www.biglots.com Total Stores (North America) 1,442 Total Sales $5.2 billion Year Founded 1967 Trading Areas AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2016\/12\/csg-snapshot-big-lots-stores-inc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CSG Snapshot: Big Lots Stores Inc.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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-8326","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\/8326","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}