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JoS. A. Bank Clothiers, Inc., (commonly pronounced "Joseph A. Bank's"), is a men's clothing designer and retailer founded in 1905 and headquartered in Hampstead, Maryland. As of December 2006, it has 371 retail locations^[1] in the United States, in 42 states and the District of Columbia. The exact name of the company as specified in its corporate charter is, in fact, JoS. A. Bank Clothiers, Inc.^[2] including the unusual abbreviation of the name Joseph with the S capitalized. Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ... Hampstead is a town in Carroll County, Maryland, United States. ... ...

Its clothing products, which bear the company's label, are targeted at affluent male professionals and come in three lines: the basic Jos. A. Bank collection, the midrange Signature collection, and the top-of-the-line Signature Gold collection. Its clothes, which include suits, shirts, ties, and sport coats, are manufactured by outside suppliers to company specifications.

Jos. A. Bank also provides tailoring services at many of its locations, and operates seven outlet stores, where it sells excess merchandise at reduced prices. A tailor is a person whose occupation is to sew clothes custom-fit to individuals, and to repair clothes. ... An outlet store or factory outlet is a retail store in which manufacturers sell their irregular, surplus or old-fashion stock directly to the public. ...

The company's common stock is listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol "JOSB." NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... A stock symbol or ticker symbol is a mnemonic used to uniquely identify shares of a publicly-traded corporation on a particular stock market. ...

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External links

• About Joseph A. Bank Clothiers, Inc. (company website)
• EDGAR Filings (Government Website)