Healthy Back Store
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Healthy Back, also known as The Healthy Back Store, is chain of stores centered in Maryland and Virginia that sells products targeted at people with back pain or other physical conditions. The company was founded by Anthony Mazlish in 1994 in Rockville, Maryland after he suffered a back injury and found there was an open niche for a specialty back retailer.[1][2]
Healthy Back has 19 locations in 7 states and a corporate office in Beltsville, Maryland.[3]
2008 Joanne's buyout=
Healthy Back is known for buying out the Maryland-based Joanne's Bed and Back chain of eight stores in 2008, offering $600,000. Joanne's Bed and Back had filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier that year.[4] Healthy Back closed four Joanne's stores and assimilated nine more under their own name.[5] As early as 1998, US News noted that the four major back-related stores, Healthy Back Store, Better Back Store, Relax the Back, and JoAnne's Bed & Back Shops, had a combined business of $75 million.[6] At the time of the merger, Healthy Back's sales were $40 million per year, and Joanne's $10 million.[4] Joanne's had played a role in Mazlish's entry into the back business, when he purchased a back cushion from the chain's Tyson's Corner location upon first moving to the District in 1993.[7]
References
- ^ "Back on His Feet: Tony Mazlish [Georgetown Magazine]". Hope Gibbs. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ^ James E. Dion (2008). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting and Running a Retail Store. Alpha Books. pp. 58–. ISBN 978-1-59257-726-2.
- ^ "Healthy Back Store Locations". Healthyback.com. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ^ a b "The Healthy Back Store buys JoAnne's Bed & Back Stores, closes stores - Washington Business Journal". Bizjournals.com. 2008-05-19. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ^ "JoAnne's Bed and Back". Joannesbedandback.com. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
- ^ U.S. News & World Report. U.S. News Publishing Corporation. 1998. p. 194.
- ^ "Rival Buys JoAnne's Bed & Back Assets". Washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2015-02-04.
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