![]() ![]() The company will be hiring about 500 people off the bat, and the venture will be led by Greg Dyer, the former general manager for Bed Bath & Beyond in Canada. In total, rooms + spaces will launch with 800,000 square feet of retail space, plus an e-commerce website. "In some cases, there were other retailers that were interested and in some cases, the deals just didn't make sense to do it, anywhere that we're not, we're still looking," he said. That's less than half of the 60-odd locations that Bed Bath & Beyond took up, and Putman says he would have been happy to take in more. Putman's endeavour will start with 21 locations scattered across Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador. "We felt like we could put together a team that could service the Canadian marketplace, the way that Bed Bath & Beyond used to." That's a reference to Putman's previous retail ventures, all of which follow a similar pattern: coming in and either moving into former locations of a defunct chain, or in some cases buying up the brand itself. "That is kind of the story with most things that we buy - good companies that have just lost their way," he said. Can a 34-year-old Canadian business school dropout rescue Britain's HMV?. ![]()
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