Ross Stores (NASDAQ: ROST) — Company Overview, News & Financial Data
Ross Stores operates as an off-price retailer providing brand name apparel at significant discounts, enhancing customer shopping experiences.

Ross Stores
Ross Stores is an American off-price retail company headquartered in Dublin, California. The company operates two main chains of off-price retail apparel and home fashion stores: Ross Dress for Less and dd's DISCOUNTS. It offers name-brand and designer apparel, footwear, accessories, and home fashions at discounted prices compared to department and specialty stores. The company targets value-conscious consumers through a nationwide store network supported by strategically located distribution centers and buying offices across major fashion centers in the United States.
Snapshot
Operations
Products and/or services of Ross Stores
- Off-Price Apparel Retail: Retails brand-name and designer apparel for women, men, children, and infants through a widespread chain of brick-and-mortar retail locations operating across numerous states in the United States.
- Home Fashion and Accessories: Sells home decor, bed and bath products, furniture, kitchenware, accent pieces, luggage, footwear, and jewelry sourced from name-brand manufacturers at discounted prices relative to department stores and specialty retailers.
- Value Retail Chain Operations: Operates a secondary retail chain concept focused on deep-discount family apparel, footwear, home accents, and seasonal merchandise tailored to lower-income neighborhood demographics and price-sensitive consumer segments.
- Logistics and Distribution Infrastructure: Maintains a network of large-scale automated distribution centers to process, warehouse, and dispatch inventory rapidly from regional facilities directly to retail stores across primary operational geographic zones.
- Merchandise Sourcing and Buying Offices: Coordinates procurement through dedicated buying offices located in key fashion hubs to source excess inventory, overruns, and closeouts directly from apparel manufacturers and vendor partners nationwide.
- Retail Credit Card Programs: Offers store-branded and co-branded credit card programs in partnership with financial institutions, providing qualifying customers with promotional financing options, instant purchase discounts, and account management services.
Ross Stores executive team
- Mr. James G. ConroyCEO & Director
- Mr. Michael J. HartshornGroup President, COO & Director
- Mr. William SheehanExecutive VP & CFO
- Mr. Jeffrey P. BurrillSenior VP, Corporate Controller & Chief Accounting Officer
- Mr. Connie KaoGroup Vice President of Investor & Media Relations
- Mr. Ken JewGroup Senior VP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
- Mr. Ken CaruanaExecutive VP of Strategy, Marketing & Human Resources
- Mr. James S. FassioChief Development Officer
- Mr. Gary L. CribbSenior Group Executive Vice President of Stores & Loss Prevention
- Ms. Vanessa Baque-StantonExecutive Vice President of Planning