Bed Bath & Beyond
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| Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc.
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| Type | NASDAQ: BBBY |
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| Founded | 1971 |
| Headquarters | Union, New Jersey
<tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Key people</th><td>Warren Eisenberg (co-founder), Leonard Feinstein (co-founder), Steven Temares, (CEO)</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Industry</th><td>Retail</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Products</th><td>Home Furnishings</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Revenue</th><td>US$5.81 billion in 2005</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Website</th><td>http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/</td></tr> |
Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) was formed in 1971 and today operate a chain of domestic merchandise retail stores across the United States. They feature medium to high quality domestic merchandise: items for the bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, and dining room. The company is a member of the S&P 500 index and the NASDAQ-100 index.
The company's corporate headquarters are located at 650 Liberty Avenue, Union, New Jersey 07083.
[edit] Pop Culture
Many jokes have been made about the Beyond portion of the Bed Bath & Beyond name:
- The Fox animated sitcom Family Guy has several Bed Bath & Beyond jokes, which often revolve around working in or browsing on the Beyond portion of the store.
- Bed Bath & Beyond is mentioned in the satirical song "America, F@&% Yeah" from the 2004 film Team America: World Police as one of the better things about the United States (although it receives a less enthusiastic response than other brand names such as Gap and McDonald's).
- In the Fox animated sitcom Futurama, there is one scene in the episode "Raging Bender" where Bender (after losing his last match in a robot fighting tournament) receives a gift certificate to Bed Bath & Beyond as a consolation prize.
- Bed Bath & Beyond is mentioned in comedian Jim Norton's live CD performance, Yellow Discipline. He says that, as a man, if you spend $1000 there, you get a letter congratulating you on being homosexual.
- In the film Old School, Will Ferrell’s character, Frank, a married man among college students, talks about his Saturday by saying “Well, um, actually a pretty nice little Saturday, we're going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper; maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I don't know, I don't know if we'll have enough time.” This is meant to poke fun at the corporation's dominant suburban locations.
- Bed Bath & Beyond is sometimes included in the Food Network television show Good Eats. Alton Brown visits a BBB location and gathers useful gadgets.
- In the movie Killjoy 2, Killjoy says "Bed, Bath and Beyond the grave."
- The "Beyond" department is also used in Adam Sandler and Christopher Walken's 2006 comedy film Click. In this case, the door marked "Beyond" leads to a workshop helmed by Walken, with a door marked "Way Beyond" leading way to a massive storage unit.
- In the Simpsons episode The Cartridge Family, Homer buys a handgun at the "Bloodbath and Beyond" gun shop.
- The "Beyond" department joke is also used in the episode of Will & Grace entitled "Head Case" (Season 1, ep. 3). Will tries to make Grace feel better about her tiny bathroom by buying her shelves from the "beyond".
- Also, Season 4, episode 7 of Will & Grace is entitled "Bed, Bath & Beyond." In the episode, Grace is coping with breaking up with Nathan, and her friends try and get her out of her bed.
