The Container Store® Celebrates Sixteen Sweet Years on Fortune’s List of 100 Best Companies to Work For®

The Container Store®, the nation’s originator and leading retailer of storage and organization products, announces its #27 ranking on Fortune magazine’s annual list of 100 Best Companies to Work For®, up one spot from last year’s ranking. The announcement marks 16 consecutive years for the retailer on the employer of choice list.

“We’re so proud to have sustained our position on Fortune’s employer of choice list for the 16th year in a row,” said Kip Tindell, Chairman and CEO of The Container Store. “Our focus has always been maintaining our ‘yummy’ culture by putting our employees first in everything that we do. If we take great care of our employees by paying them better and training them more, by making them feel respected and fulfilled, they in turn will take better care of our customers, delighting them each time they shop with us.”

Fortune also recognized the retailer for offering employees 14% of the company’s total shares at the time of its IPO in 2013 and its continued focus on above average retail pay. To find out more about the company’s unique employee-first culture and approach to business and to link to the Careers page, visit www.whatwestandfor.com.

The Container Store originated the storage and organization category of retailing when it opened its first location in Dallas in 1978. Today, the retailer’s purpose remains the same: improve the quality of its customers’ lives through the gracious gift of organization. The Container Store accomplishes this through a differentiated shopping experience offering customers innovative, time and space-saving solutions coupled with astonishing customer service. The retailer is fueled by its seven, values-based Foundation Principles that begin with a commitment to its employee-first culture but ultimately ensures it’s optimizing the relationships between and creating value for ALL of its stakeholders, including employees, vendors, customers, community and shareholders.

Fortune partners annually with Great Place to Work® to conduct the most extensive employee survey in corporate America to identify the 100 Best Companies to Work For®. Two-thirds of a company's survey score is based on the results of the Trust Index© Employee Survey, which is sent to a random sample of employees from each company. This survey asks questions related to employees' attitudes about management's credibility, overall job satisfaction, and camaraderie. The other third is based on responses to the Culture Audit©, which includes detailed questionnaires about pay and benefit programs and a series of open-ended questions about hiring practices, methods of internal communication, training, recognition programs and diversity efforts.

About The Container Store

The Container Store® (NYSE: TCS) is the nation’s leading retailer of storage and organization products and the only retailer solely devoted to the storage and organization category of retailing. The company originated the concept of storage and organization retailing when it opened its first store in 1978. Today, the retailer has 70 store locations nationwide that each average 25,000 square feet. The Container Store has over 10,000 products to help customers save space and, ultimately, save them time. As the pace of modern life accelerates and being organized is not a luxury anymore but a necessity, The Container Store is devoted to making customers more productive, relaxed and happier by selling customized, complete solutions. Since its inception, the retailer has nurtured an employee-first culture and couples its one-of-a-kind product collection with a high level of customer service delivered by its highly trained organization experts. The company has been named to Fortune magazine’s 100 Best Companies To Work For® – 16 years in a row. Visit www.containerstore.com for more information about store locations, the product collection and services offered. To find out more about The Container Store’s unique culture, Foundation Principles and devotion to Conscious Capitalism, visit the retailer’s blog at www.whatwestandfor.com or read Chairman & CEO Kip Tindell’s new book UNCONTAINABLE: How Passion, Commitment, and Conscious Capitalism Built a Business Where Everyone Thrives (available at The Container Store, www.uncontainable.com and anywhere books are sold).

About Great Place To Work

Great Place to Work® is the global authority on high-trust, high-performance workplace cultures. Through proprietary assessment tools, advisory services and employer branding programs, including Best Companies lists and workplace reviews, Great Place to Work® provides the benchmarks, framework, and expertise needed to create, sustain, and recognize outstanding workplace cultures. Great Place to Work®’s Trust Index©, a 58-question employee survey that measures trust, is used around the world to help companies increase the levels of trust across their organizations and improve business results. Annually, Great Place to Work® produces the research for the annual Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list and the Great Place to Work® Best Small and Medium Workplaces list. Follow Great Place to Work® online at www.greatplacetowork.com and on Twitter at @GPTW_US.

About Fortune

Fortune is a global leader in business journalism with a combined audience of more than 9 million readers in print and online. Fortune covers bold innovators, smart companies, new ideas and innovative strategies that inspire the Fortune audience to accelerate their business success. Fortune’s major franchises include the FORTUNE 500, the 100 Best Companies to Work For, World’s Most Admired Companies, 40 Under 40 and Fastest-Growing Companies. Fortune hosts a wide range of annual conferences, including Fortune Most Powerful Women, Fortune Brainstorm Tech, Fortune Brainstorm E and the Fortune Global Forum. Fortune was the first business magazine with an iPad app and has more than 1.5 million followers on Twitter. Fortune.com launched on June 1, 2014 and has seen rapid growth since launch reaching an average of over 7mm monthly unique visitors. See the latest from Fortune online at Fortune.com and on Twitter @FortuneMagazine.

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