Type Department Store Website www.stagestores.com Parent organization Stage Stores | Industry Retail Founded 1891 | |
Products Apparel, accessories, cosmetics, footwear, and housewares Headquarters South Hill, Virginia, United States | ||
Peebles is a United States chain of department stores owned by Stage Stores, Inc. and headquartered in Houston, TX.
Peebles operates stores mostly in small to medium-sized areas of the eastern and upper-midwestern United States areas of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Florida, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
The store specializes in retailing desirable brand name men's, women's and children's apparel, accessories, cosmetics, footwear and housewares.Brands exclusively found at Peebles include Valerie Stevens, Signature Studio, Sun River, Rustic Blue, Rebecca Malone and Wishful Park.
History
The company's first store was opened in Lawrenceville, Virginia, in 1891 by W.S. Peebles, Sr., the company's founder.
Peebles acquired the nine-store Harvey's Department Stores chain in September 1988.
In 1998, Peebles purchased Watson's, a similar chain based in Knoxville, Tennessee, later renaming all the Watson's stores as Peebles.
Houston-based Stage Stores purchased Peebles for $167 million in cash and $46.9 million in debt in 2003.