Yankee Candle has a total of 55 outlet stores in the United States. Interior of the Yankee Candle store in the Newport Center Mall in Jersey City, New Jersey Outlet stores The Williamsburg store closed for good in April 2021. At 45,000 square feet (4,200 m 2), it was a popular tourist destination. The store was a beautiful place for a child to visit, where they could make their own candles, choose their own scents to mix and match.Ī second flagship store was opened in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 2005. There is also a candle making museum and a Hillside Pizza cafe on site. Visitors can dip their own candles in a specially equipped area, make wax molds of their hands, or create their own unique candle. It features all available Yankee Candles as well as kitchen and home accessories, New England crafts, gifts and collectibles, a toy shop, picnic grounds, and a " Bavarian Christmas Village" filled with decorated Christmas trees and a toy train that runs through to Santa's Workshop, where animated elves and an 'assembly line' for wooden vehicles surround Santa Claus's desk. Yankee Candle's flagship store, which opened in 1982, is located in South Deerfield, Massachusetts. Yankee Candle flagship store in Deerfield, MA The candles have a wooden wick that crackles when burned, and use a blend of paraffin and soy wax to reduce spatter and residue.
Woodwick candles are now a premium brand sold by Yankee Candle. In 2017 Newell Brands acquired Smith Mountain Industries, makers of the Woodwick brand of candles. A further merger in 2016 saw Jarden purchased by Newell Rubbermaid and combined into the new company Newell Brands. In October 2012 Yankee Candle Europe launched their Consumer Direct website offering their products direct to consumers. The founder, Michael Kittredge, in a return to high quality manufacturing created Kringle Candle, with his son Michael (Mike). On February 6, 2007, the company was acquired by the private equity group of Madison Dearborn Partners LLC for approximately $1.6 billion.
The Illuminations brand and web store were phased out in early 2009. Although the two companies were similar, the names were separated, with Illuminations being aimed at a different demographic. Kittredge remained the company's chairman emeritus.ĭuring the summer of 2006, Yankee Candle purchased Illuminations, a Petaluma, California-based, multi-channel retailer of high quality candles and home accessories. Rydin launched a major advertising campaign and the line was picked up by mass retailers Linens-N-Things and Bed, Bath and Beyond, pushing sales to their highest levels yet.
Forstmann took the company public in 1999, and in 2001, hired Craig Rydin as a CEO. In 1998, he sold the company to New York-based private equity company Forstmann Little for $500 million. The company slowly expanded and moved to South Deerfield in 1983.Īfter a cancer scare in 1993, Kittredge started handing the company over to a friend and employee. In 1975, she managed the first Yankee Candle Shop located where the Village Commons in South Hadley now stands.
Obremski's invention of a turntable taper wheel allowed production to double, while at the same time decreasing the need for more labor hours. Candle production grew considerably after Obremski's father devised a "heated room", which enabled cost-saving liquid wax deliveries at the first factory site in Holyoke. MacIver helped fund the start-up business with earnings from his part-time job. The company itself was founded with help from Donald MacIver and Susan Obremski, who were high school friends with Kittredge. Neighbors began expressing interest in buying his creations, and Kittredge began producing them in larger quantities. Yankee Candle Company was started in South Hadley, Massachusetts when Michael Kittredge, originally from Holyoke, Massachusetts, created his first scented candle, Christmas 1969, from melted crayons as a gift for his mother. The Yankee Candle store in the Newport Center Mall in Jersey City, New Jersey
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