Retailer Sustains Position on National Employer of Choice List for
17 years; Also Considered Amongst Top Workplaces for Women, Diversity,
Retail and Camaraderie
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
The Container Store®, the nation’s originator and
leading retailer of storage and organization products, announces its #14
ranking on Fortune magazine’s annual list of 100 Best
Companies to Work For® (up from #27 in 2015). The announcement marks
17 consecutive years that the retailer has been included in the employer
of choice list.
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The Container Store Honored for 17th Consecutive Year on Fortune's List of 100 Best Companies to Work For (Graphic: Business Wire)
“We’re thrilled to make a big move up on this prestigious list and
couldn’t be more proud and appreciative of our 5,000 employees and all
they do every day to make The Container Store a great place to work and
to shop,” said Kip Tindell, Chairman and CEO. “We’re committed to
sustaining our position as an employer of choice while ensuring that all
of our stakeholders thrive, which we passionately believe starts with
our employees first.”
As part of today’s announcement, Fortune also recognized the
retailer for its higher-than-average retail pay, accessibility of health
insurance for part-time employees and traditions like We Love Our
Employees Day celebrated annually on February 14th. Over the
past year, Great Place to Work® and Fortune
have released additional top workplace lists in which the retailer was
honored, including the Best Workplace for Women, Diversity, Retail and
Camaraderie. To find out more about the company’s unique employee-first
culture, approach to business and career opportunities, visit www.whatwestandfor.com
or www.containerstore.com/careers.
Each year Fortune partners with Great Place to Work® to
conduct the most extensive employee survey in corporate America to
identify the 100 Best Companies to Work For®. Two-thirds of a
company's survey score is based on the results of the Trust Index© Employee
Survey, which is sent to a random sample of employees from each company.
This survey asks questions related to employees' attitudes about
management's credibility, overall job satisfaction, and camaraderie. The
other third is based on responses to the Culture Audit©,
which includes detailed questionnaires about pay and benefit programs
and a series of open-ended questions about hiring practices, methods of
internal communication, training, recognition programs and diversity
efforts.
About The Container Store
The Container Store (NYSE: TCS) is the nation’s leading retailer of
storage and organization products and the only retailer solely devoted
to the category. The company originated the concept of storage and
organization of retailing when it opened its first store in 1978. Today,
the retailer has 79 store locations nationwide that each average 25,000
square feet. The Container Store has over 10,000 products - many of them
multifunctional - to help customers save space and, ultimately, save
them time. As the pace of modern life accelerates, being organized is
not a luxury but a necessity. The Container Store is devoted to making
customers more productive, relaxed and happier by selling customized
organization solutions such as custom closets using its new TCS Closets™
collection and its elfa shelving and drawer system. Since its inception,
the retailer has nurtured an employee-first culture and couples its
one-of-a-kind product collection with a high level of customer service
delivered by its highly trained organization experts. The Company has
been named to Fortune magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For®
17 years in a row. Visit www.containerstore.com
for more information about store locations, the product collection and
services offered - including the retailer’s new, personalized in-home
organization service Contained Home - and to sign up for the POP!
Perfectly Organized Perks program. Discover The Container Store’s
storage and organization solutions at work in real spaces of its
customers’ and employees’ homes along with tips, advice and product
sneak peeks at the retailer’s new lifestyle blog, Container Stories
(containerstore.com/blog). To find out more about The Container Store’s
unique culture, Foundation Principles and devotion to Conscious
Capitalism, visit the retailer’s culture blog at www.whatwestandfor.com
or read Chairman & CEO Kip Tindell’s book UNCONTAINABLE: How Passion,
Commitment, and Conscious Capitalism Built a Business Where Everyone
Thrives (available at The Container Store, www.uncontainable.com
and anywhere books are sold).
About Great Place to Work:
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on high-trust,
high-performance workplace cultures. Through proprietary assessment
tools, advisory services, and certification programs, including Best
Workplaces lists and workplace reviews, Great Place to Work® provides
the benchmarks, framework, and expertise needed to create, sustain, and
recognize outstanding workplace cultures. In the United States, Great
Place to Work® produces the annual Fortune "100 Best
Companies to Work For®" list and a series of Great Place to Work® Best
Workplaces lists including lists for Millennials, Women, Diversity,
Small and Medium Companies and over a half dozen different industry
lists.
Follow Great Place to Work® online at www.greatplacetowork.com
and on Twitter at @GPTW_US.
About Fortune:
Fortune is a global leader in business journalism known for its
unrivaled access to industry leaders and decision makers. Founded in
1930, Fortune has transformed into a digital-first operation
with nearly 17 million monthly unique visitors on Fortune.com as well as
3.4 million global readers in print. Fortune is home to some
of the strongest business franchises, including: Fortune 500,
Best Companies to Work For, World's Most Admired Companies, Fastest
Growing Companies and Most Powerful Women. The Fortune Conference
Division extends the brand's mission into live settings, hosting a wide
range of annual conferences for top-level executives, including the FORTUNE Global
Forum and the Most Powerful Women Summit.
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