Charming Shoppes is a specialty and plus size clothing retail holding company based in Bensalem, Pennsylvania; a suburb of Philadelphia. Its subsidiaries are Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug, Cacique and Catherines Plus. Clothes are sold from over 2300 retail stores in the United States, as well as numerous catalogs and online sites. Charming Shoppes was founded in 1940, went public in 1971, and was ranked 810th on the 2010 Fortune 1000.
On May 2, 2012; Charming Shoppes announced it will merge with Ascena Retail Group, parent company of DressBarn.
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“Professor Marcus: And didn’t someone say, ‘The eyes are the windows of the soul?’
Mrs.Wilberforce: I don’t really know. But, oh, it’s such a charming thought, I do hope someone expressed it.”
—William Rose (b. 1918)