Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.

Founded in 1971, Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. and subsidiaries is a retailer which operates under the names of Bed Bath & Beyond, Christmas Tree Shops, Christmas Tree Shops andThat! or andThat!, Harmon or Harmon Face Values, buybuy BABY and World Market, Cost Plus World Market or Cost Plus. In the second quarter of fiscal 2015, the Company acquired Of a Kind, an e-commerce website that features specially commissioned, limited edition items from emerging fashion and home designers. The Company also operates Linen Holdings, a provider of a variety of textile products, amenities and other goods to institutional customers in the hospitality, cruise line, healthcare and other industries. Additionally, the Company is a partner in a joint venture which operates seven retail stores in Mexico under the name Bed Bath & Beyond.

The Company sells a wide assortment of domestics merchandise and home furnishings. Domestics merchandise includes categories such as bed linens and related items, bath items and kitchen textiles. Home furnishings include categories such as kitchen and tabletop items, fine tabletop, basic housewares, general home furnishings, consumables and certain juvenile products.

The Company’s strategy is centered on its customer-centric culture and its commitment to customer service, supported by significant investments to strengthen the Company’s foundation for future growth:

• To do more for and with its customers wherever, whenever and however they wish to interact with the Company;

• To provide its customers a seamless experience whether they interact with the Company in a store, through one of its contact centers, on a desktop, tablet, smartphone or through social media;

• To be viewed as the expert for the home, including the accompanying life stages that make a house a home, and to become the destination for customers’ needs and wants as they express their life interests and travel through their life stages; all through the expanding and differentiated products, services and solutions the Company offers; and

• To enhance its ability to achieve these objectives through an ongoing commitment to world class information technology, comprehensive analytics and targeted marketing and communications.

The Company strives to do more for and with its customers by: offering an extensive breadth and depth of differentiated merchandise at the right value; presenting merchandise in a distinctive manner designed to maximize customer convenience and reinforce customer perception of a wide selection; and providing excellent customer service, including new products, services and solutions. The Company continues to expand, differentiate and leverage its assortment across all channels, concepts and countries in which it operates, to better engage with its customers wherever, whenever and however they express their life interests and travel through their life stages.