Yankee Candle Company Celebrates its 500th Retail Location With Their Newest Store in Saugus, MA
Yankee Candle comes home to Massachusetts to open their 500th Store
SOUTH DEERFIELD, Mass., March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The Yankee Candle Company, Inc. is proud to announce the opening of their 500th retail store located at the Square One Mall in Saugus, MA on March 27, 2010. This milestone will be celebrated with an official grand opening and ribbon cutting at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, March 29, 2010, when executives from Yankee Candle, and state and local dignitaries will cut the ribbon.
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"Yankee Candle has been based in Massachusetts since we got our start more than four decades ago, and we feel it is very fitting that this exciting event is taking place here in our home state," said Harlan Kent, Yankee Candle's Chief Executive Officer. "We are very excited to open our 500th retail store and we continue to look forward to more growth in Massachusetts and elsewhere," added Stephen Farley, President of the Retail Division.
Yankee Candle employs over 5,000 people nationwide with over 1,500 employees in Massachusetts alone. This 500th store location in Saugus is the 34th Yankee Candle store in Massachusetts. Yankee Candle has become the most-recognized name in the candle business and the country's best selling candle brand by sharing its customers' "passion for fragrance" in every product it brings to market. "Our continued growth is a tribute to the strength of our brand, our quality fragrances and, most importantly, our loyal customers," said Kent. "Our many team members across the country share in our excitement today."
In celebration of the grand opening of the 500th location, the first 500 guests into the new Saugus store will have the opportunity to receive a free gift and to register to win a year full of candles. Guests will also have the opportunity to create a unique wax hand mold at our interactive Wax Hands station. Yankee Candle has partnered with The Greater Boston Food Bank and will host a drive at this location to collect 500 pounds of food during the grand opening week. Anyone who contributes to the food drive will receive a Car Jar® air freshener and discount coupon.
"I'd like to send a personal thank you to all of our Yankee Candle fans for making us America's Best Loved Candle™," said Kent.
About Yankee Candle
The Yankee Candle Company, Inc. is the leading designer, manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer of premium scented candles, based on sales, in the giftware industry. Yankee Candle has a 40-year history of offering distinctive products and marketing them as affordable luxuries and consumable gifts. The Company sells its products through a North American wholesale customer network of approximately 19,200 store locations, a growing base of Company owned and operated retail stores (currently in 43 states), direct mail catalogs, and its Internet website (www.yankeecandle.com). Outside of North America, the Company sells its products primarily through its subsidiary, Yankee Candle Company (Europe), Ltd., which has an international wholesale customer network of approximately 3,600 store locations and distributors covering a combined 43 countries.
SOURCE The Yankee Candle Company, Inc.
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