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Impairment, Restructuring and Other Charges - Summary of Impairment and Restructuring Charges (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Thousands | 12 Months Ended
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Feb. 01, 2025 | Feb. 03, 2024 | Jan. 28, 2023
Charges recorded in operating expenses: |  |  |  |  |  |
Impairment and restructuring charges |  | $ 17,561 |  |  |  |
Asset impairment charges |  | 6,353 |  | $ 116,365 |  | $ 20,633
Impairment, restructuring and other charges |  | 17,561 |  | 141,695 |  | 22,209
Total Company impairment, restructuring and other charges | [1] | 17,561 |  | 152,645 |  | 22,209
U.S. and Canada Store Asset |  |  |  |  |  |
Charges recorded in operating expenses: |  |  |  |  |  |
Asset impairment charges | [2] |  |  |  |  | 10,368
Corporate |  |  |  |  |  |
Charges recorded in operating expenses: |  |  |  |  |  |
Impairment and restructuring charges |  | 10,729 | [3] | 11,241 | [4] |
International |  |  |  |  |  |
Charges recorded in cost of sales: |  |  |  |  |  |
Inventory charges | [5] |  |  | 10,950 |  |
Hong Kong |  |  |  |  |  |
Charges recorded in operating expenses: |  |  |  |  |  |
Impairment and restructuring charges | [6] |  |  | 10,882 |  | 7,997
Asset impairment charges |  | 6,400 |  |  |  |
Hong Kong | Retail Operations |  |  |  |  |  |
Charges recorded in operating expenses: |  |  |  |  |  |
Impairment and restructuring charges | [7] | 6,832 |  |  |  |
Quiet Platforms |  |  |  |  |  |
Charges recorded in operating expenses: |  |  |  |  |  |
Asset impairment charges |  | $ 6,400 |  | 74,800 |  | 2,800
Impairment, restructuring and other charges | [8] |  |  | $ 119,572 |  | $ 3,844
[1] | Refer to Note 15, Impairment, Restructuring and Other Charges, to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information.
[2] | For Fiscal 2022, $10.4 million of impairment charges, consisting of $9.2 million of ROU assets and $1.2 million of store property and equipment related to insufficient cash flows to support the asset value in the U.S. and Canada.
[3] | The Company recorded restructuring costs of $10.7 million related to employee severance.
[4] | $11.2 million, consisting of $6.0 million of employee severance related to corporate realignment and other asset impairment of $5.2 million of investments related to further strategic business changes.
[5] | $11.0 million of inventory write-down charges related to our international businesses as further described in paragraph 1 of note (3) below.
[6] | $10.9 million of charges related to exiting the Japan market, including the closure of all 4 stores in January 2024, as well as impairment related to our Hong Kong retail operations. Of this amount, $4.7 million related to Japan ROU assets, $3.6 million of Japan store property and equipment, $1.3 million of Hong Kong store ROU assets, and $1.3 million of employee severance. All impairments were recorded due to insufficient prospective cash flows to support the asset values. Additionally, we recorded $11.0 million of inventory write-down charges related to restructuring our international operations, which was recorded separately in Cost of Sales and discussed in note (1) above. For Fiscal 2022, $7.5 million of store impairment due to insufficient prospective cash flows to support the asset values and $0.5 million of severance related to down-sizing Hong Kong retail operations.
[7] | The Company recorded impairment and restructuring costs of $6.8 million related to the sale of the Company's Hong Kong retail operations to a third-party buyer. These costs primarily consist of impairment of $6.4 million and employee severance.
[8] | $119.6 million of charges related to the Quiet Platforms restructuring. Of this amount, we impaired definite lived intangible assets of $40.5 million consisting of $31.2 million of customer relationships and $9.3 million of trade names. We also impaired $39.6 million of goodwill. We recorded $24.7 million of long-term asse t impairment primarily related to technology which is no longer a part of the long-term strategy. All impairments were recorded due to insufficient prospective cash flows to support the asset value, resulting from the restructuring of Quiet Platforms. We recorded $9.9 million of severance based on this revised strategy. We also recorded $4.9 million of contract related charges. For Fiscal 2022, impairment of $2.8 million consisting of $2.3 million of ROU asset and $0.5 million of property and equipment related to the closure of the Jacksonville, FL distribution center and severance of $1.0 million related to employees of that distribution center. The Jacksonville distribution center was replaced with a higher productivity location in Atlanta, GA.

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