Zale Company Description
Zale is multi-faceted. One of North America's largest specialty jewelry retailers, Zale sells diamond, colored stone, and gold jewelry (diamond fashion rings, semi-precious stones, earrings, gold chains); watches; and gift items at more than 2,100 locations, mostly in malls, throughout the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The firm has three large chains aimed at different jewelry markets: Gordon's Jewelers, Zales Jewelers, and Piercing Pagoda. Zale also operates about 145 jewelry outlet stores, runs more than 200 stores in Canada under the Peoples Jewellers and Mappins Jewellers names, sells online, and offers jewelry insurance. Zale sold its upscale Bailey Banks & Biddle chain to Finlay Enterprises in 2007.
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