ANN INC, formerly AnnTaylor Stores Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, is a specialty retailer of women’s apparel, shoes and accessories sold primarily under the Ann Taylor and LOFT brands. The Company’s Ann Taylor and LOFT brands offers a range of career and casual separates, dresses, tops, weekend wear, shoes and accessories. The Company offers updated past season sellers from the Ann Taylor and LOFT merchandise collections at its Ann Taylor Factory and LOFT Outlet stores, respectively, and the clients can also shop online at www.anntaylor.com and www.LOFT.com (together, Online Stores), or by phone at 1-800-DIAL-ANN and 1-888-LOFT-444. As of January 29, 2011, it operated 896 retail stores in 46 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, of which 266 were Ann Taylor stores, 502 LOFT were stores, 92 were Ann Taylor Factory stores and 36 were LOFT Outlet stores.