Description of Business

6 Months Ended

Feb. 01, 2020

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Ascena Retail Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation, is a national specialty retailer of apparel for women and tween girls. The Company’s continuing operations consist of its direct channel operations and approximately 2,800 stores throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. The Company had annual revenues from continuing operations for the fiscal year ended August 3, 2019 of approximately $4.7 billion. The Company and its subsidiaries are collectively referred to herein as the “Company,” “ascena,” “we,” “us,” “our” and “ourselves,” unless the context indicates otherwise.

The Company operates its business in three reportable segments: Premium Fashion, Plus Fashion and Kids Fashion. All of our segments sell fashion merchandise to the women’s and girls’ apparel market across a wide range of ages, sizes and demographics. Our segments consist of specialty retail, outlet and direct channel as well as licensed franchises in international territories at our Kids Fashion segment. Our Premium Fashion segment consists of our Ann Taylor and LOFT brands; our Plus Fashion segment consists of our Lane Bryant and Catherines brands and our Kids Fashion segment consists of our Justice brand. As further discussed in Note 2, during the second quarter of the fiscal year ending August 1, 2020 (“Fiscal 2020”), the previously-announced wind down of Dressbarn was completed and in Fiscal 2019, the Company completed the sale of its maurices brand, both of which were formerly included in the Value Fashion segment.

For a more detailed description of each brand’s products and markets in which they serve, see Part I, Item 1 “Business” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 3, 2019 (the “Fiscal 2019 10-K”). The Company’s brands had the following store counts as of February 1, 2020:



Justice	Lane Bryant	LOFT	Catherines	Ann Taylor	Total
820	688	666	299	291	2,764