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Goody's is a United States chain of department stores owned and operated by Stage Stores, Inc. and headquartered in Houston, TX. The store specializes in retailing desirable brand name apparel, accessories, cosmetics, footwear and housewares.
It is a successor to Goody's Family Clothing, a defunct chain of clothing retailers that was based in Knoxville, Tennessee. At one time Goody's Family Clothing operated close to 500 stores in the U.S South and Midwest, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. In January 2009 the company declared bankruptcy and announced that it would close. The last stores closed their doors for the final time on February 28, 2009. In July 2009, Stage Stores Inc. acquired the rights to the Goody's name. In 2010, Stage Stores Inc. reported to re-open Goody's stores and might continue to expand old locations nationwide. In late 2010, Goody's opened 17 new stores in the Southeast.
Brands exclusively found at Goody's include Valerie Stevens, Signature Studio, Sun River, Rustic Blue, Rebecca Malone and Wishful Park.
Goody's S.A. is Greece's biggest fast food company. Its head office is in Building 14B, Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport in Spata, Attica.
It was founded in 1975 by Ioannis Dionisiadis, Achilleas Folias and Nikolaos Pappas in Thessaloniki and has grown into one of the most well-reputed firms in Greece. It is the leading fast-food restaurant of Greece, having left behind the international chain McDonald's. In July 2001, after a hostile acquisition, Delta Holding S.A. became the major stakeholder in the company. In September 2006, Goody's along with Delta and a few more companies, started working under the umbrella of a parent company named Vivartia, owned by the Marfin Investment Group. It is now a subsidiary of Vivartia S.A., which is the leader of the food industry in Greece.
Goody's serves over 160,000 customers daily, offering a variety of dining options, both for dine in and out-of- store in 5 countries. Goody's has restaurants in countries such as Albania, Skopje, Indian Ocean (Mayotte), Australia and soon in Kosovo and Saudi Arabia.