Toys R Us
RetailUSAClosed 2018
Total Raised
Undisclosed
Peak Valuation
Undisclosed
Employees
64,000
Year Collapsed
2018
Business model
Big-box specialty toy and baby-products retail chain.
In brief
America's largest toy retailer was taken private in a $6.6 billion leveraged buyout in 2005, saddling it with roughly $5 billion in debt that consumed hundreds of millions of dollars a year in interest payments alone. Unable to invest in e-commerce or store experience while servi…
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Key facts
- Founded
- 1948
- Closed
- 2018
- Headquarters
- Wayne, USA
- Industry
- Retail
- Employees
- 64,000
- Revenue
- $11.50B
- Founders
- Charles Lazarus
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Often compared with: Target, Walmart, Amazon.