Segment Information (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Apr. 28, 2012

Financial Information On Business Segments


	Thirteen Weeks Ended
In thousands	April 28, 2012		April 30, 2011
Net sales:
U.S. segments:
Marmaxx	$	3,889,058	$	3,525,209
HomeGoods		595,722		503,283
A.J. Wright⁽¹⁾		—		9,229
International segments:
TJX Canada		640,209		592,069
TJX Europe		673,097		590,505

	$	5,798,086	$	5,220,295

Segment profit (loss):
U.S. segments:
Marmaxx	$	604,628	$	490,981
HomeGoods		69,433		45,459
A.J. Wright⁽¹⁾		—		(49,291	)
International segments:
TJX Canada		71,065		36,083
TJX Europe		11,729		(31,315	)

		756,855		491,917
General corporate expenses		66,623		53,354
Interest expense, net		8,827		8,917

Income before provision for income taxes	$	681,405	$	429,646

(1)	The consolidation of the A.J. Wright segment was completed in fiscal 2012 (see Note B).

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Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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