Stein Mart located in Town and Country Shopping Center. 300 East Stroop Road, Kettering, Ohio – OH 45429

The off-price chain Stein Mart, which announced Wednesday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, will officially be closing all of its stores for good. Stein Mart CEO Hunt Hawkins said the company was ultimately pushed to the brink by the coronavirus pandemic as its liquidity dried up and sales tumbled.

The brand will relaunch as an online-only store in 2021 REV announced Thursday that it won a bankruptcy court auction for the intellectual property of Stein Mart Inc. Under the agreement, REV will acquire the Stein Mart nameplate as well as its private-label brands, domain names, social media assets and customer data.

Stein Mart, the storied chain that began in 1908 with a first location in Greenville, Mississippi by Russian Jewish immigrant Sam Stein, recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to the COVID-19 pandemic back on August 12, 2020. All 281 stores across 30 U.S. states will be liquidated.

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Store fixtures, furniture and equipment are also for sale. Stein Mart CEO Hunt Hawkins said the company was ultimately pushed to the brink by the coronavirus pandemic as its liquidity dried up and sales tumbled.

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