Who owns TK Maxx?
TK Maxx is owned by TJX (the United States, NYSE: TJX).[1]
Evidence: The TJX Companies, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-03-31, SEC EDGAR, 31 March 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- The TJX Companies, Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Framingham, Massachusetts
- Origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1994
- Category
- Apparel, footwear & accessories › Fashion apparel › Casual & denim
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: TJX
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About TK Maxx
TK Maxx is the same business as T.J. Maxx under a different name in Britain, Ireland, Germany and Australia. The letters were transposed to avoid confusion with the established British retailer T.J. Hughes. The transposition has persisted for thirty years, so the same company trades under two near-identical names on either side of the Atlantic.
What TJX's annual report says about TK Maxx
Sentences about TK Maxx from TJX's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Launched in 1994, TK Maxx introduced off-price retail to Europe and remains Europe's largest major brick-and-mortar off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions.
Through its stores and its e-commerce sites, tkmaxx.com, launched in 2009 and tkmaxx.de and tkmaxx.at, both launched in 2023, TK Maxx offers a merchandise mix similar to TJ Maxx.
How often TJX names TK Maxx in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central.
Ownership timeline of TK Maxx
Where TK Maxx sits in TJX
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by TJX
TJX controls 7 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in apparel, footwear & accessories.
Also in apparel, footwear & accessories
Founded in the 1990s
- HomeGoods (1992)
Other brands in casual & denim, and who owns them
The 133 brands in casual & denim on Brandtree belong to 59 owners. The largest is Azzas 2154, with 8; TJX has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Fábula | Azzas 2154 | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Carter's | Carter's | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Duck Head | Oxford Industries | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Cortefiel | Tendam | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| & Other Stories | H&M Group | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Bershka | Inditex | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| GU | Fast Retailing | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| BSX | Giordano | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong |
About the owner: TJX
TJX is a publicly listed company headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States, founded in 1976. Brandtree records 7 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: TJX.
TJX buys surplus and cancelled stock from other brands and sells it below its original price, a model that depends on never knowing exactly what will be in a shop on any given day. It is one of the few large physical retailers to have grown steadily through the shift to online shopping.
🇬🇧 TK Maxx and other British brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 552 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 291 of them (53%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, TK Maxx among them.
- ASOS Design — ASOS 🇬🇧
- Alexander McQueen — Kering 🇫🇷
- Autograph — Marks & Spencer 🇬🇧
- Bravissimo — Wacoal 🇯🇵
- Burberry — Burberry 🇬🇧
- COS — H&M Group 🇸🇪
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of TK Maxx?
The parent company of TK Maxx is TJX, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is TK Maxx British or American?
TK Maxx originated in the United Kingdom in 1994, but it is owned today by TJX, which is headquartered in the United States. So TK Maxx is a British-origin brand under American ownership.
Is TK Maxx still owned by TJX?
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, TK Maxx is still owned by TJX. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] The TJX Companies, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-03-31 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 31 March 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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