Syms Corporation

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Syms Corporation

Company type	Defunct
Industry	Retail
Founded	1958 (66 years ago) (1958) New York City
Founder	Sy Syms
Defunct	2011 (13 years ago) (2011)
Fate	Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, followed by closure
Headquarters	Secaucus, New Jersey , United States
Number of locations	55 Syms and Filene's Basement[1]
Key people	Sy Syms Marcy Syms
Products	Clothing
Subsidiaries	Filene's Basement (acquired in 2009)

Syms Corp (styled as SYMS) was an off-price retail clothing store chain, founded by Sy Syms in 1958. Its headquarters was in Secaucus, New Jersey, where it became a public company, traded on the New York Stock Exchange (SYM) in 1983. The company also owned Filene's Basement, which it acquired in June 2009.

At its height, the company and its subsidiary collectively owned and operated a chain of 55 "off-price" retail stores in 16 states; the company employed approximately 3,800 full and part-time workers. Each SYMS and Filene's Basement store offered a broad range of merchandise from nationally recognized designer or brand-name labels for men, women, and children.^{[citation needed]}

On November 2, 2011, SYMS and Filene's Basement collectively filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. All SYMS and Filene's Basement stores were closed at the end of December 2011.^{[citation needed]}