The Aaron's Company
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The Aaron's Company, Inc. is an American lease-to-own retailer. The company focuses on leases and retail sales of furniture, electronics, appliances, and computers. The company sells through the company-operated and franchised stores, e-commerce platform (Aarons.com)<ref name=Reuters>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Locations
Template:As of, the Aaron's Company has 1,340 stores: 1,092 company-operated stores (in 43 states and Canada) and 248 independently owned and operated franchised stores in 35 states and Canada.<ref name="Aaron's INC 10K SEC Filing">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
History
Aaron Rents, Inc. was founded by R. Charles Loudermilk, Sr. in 1955.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In September 2008, Aaron's announced the sale of its Corporate Furnishings division to CORT Business Services, part of Berkshire Hathaway. Aaron's Corporate Furnishings division, which operated 47 stores, recorded revenues of approximately $99 million in 2007.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
As of December 31, 2016, Aaron's had 1,864 stores located in 28 states and the District of Columbia and Canada. In addition, they had 699 independently owned franchised stores in 46 states and Canada.<ref name="Reuters" />
On July 29, 2020, Aaron's Holdings Company, Inc. announced plans to split into two companies: PROG Holdings, Inc. and The Aaron's Company, Inc.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> PROG Holdings, with the ticker symbol "PRG" (Template:Nyse), remained in the S&P Midcap 400 stock index but its Global Industry Classification Standard was changed to "Consumer Finance". The Aaron's Company continued to trade under the ticker symbol "AAN" (Template:Nyse) but was moved into the S&P Smallcap 600.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In April of 2022, Aaron's purchased Brandsmart USA, a regional appliance and consumer electronics retailer, for $230 Million.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
On October 3, 2024, IQVentures completed the acquisition of the firm for approximately $504 million.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Controversy
In February 2013, customers sued Aaron's for allegedly using spyware on rented computers to send over 185,000 emails to the rental company, including customers' Social Security numbers, passwords and captured keystrokes, as well as explicit images.<ref name="NBC2013">Template:Cite news</ref> The Aaron's Company officials had previously said that the company had not installed the spyware, and individual franchisees were responsible.<ref name="NBC2013" /> In October 2013, Aaron's agreed to a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission that limited how it used monitoring technology and ordered it to delete customer information that had been improperly collected.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
See also
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External links
- Template:Official website
- Template:Finance links
- Aaron's Rent to Own and Lease Ownership website
- Home Staging by Aaron's Template:Webarchive - Home Staging Furniture Fulfilled by Aaron's
- HOMESMART Template:Webarchive - Subsidiary of Aaron's Inc.
- Aaron Inc SEC Filings
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