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One of the national leader of speciality products such as art and crafts, sewing and decoration materials provider, Joann's strong value and customer oriented policy have grown it from a modest beginning to what it is like now today. Anything you need from beading to scrapbooking are available at one central location.It is a specialty retailer of crafts and fabrics based in Hudson, Ohio. It operates the retail chains Jo-Ann Fabrics. The headquarters of the company is located in the former General Motors Terex plant.Jo-Ann Fabrics was founded in 1943 when Hilda and Berthold Reich, and their friends Sigmund and Mathilda Rohrbach, opened an imported cheese store in Cleveland. Eventually, they removed the cheese and added fabrics and opened the first Cleveland Fabric Shop. Expansion in the 1960s led to the company's new name, Jo-Ann Fabrics.In 1999, It became a publicly-held corporation traded on the American Stock Exchange under the name of Fabri-Centers of America, Inc.

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During the 1970s, Jo-Ann Fabrics opened stores in shopping malls; by the 1980s, they left most malls and added crafts and floral. In 1994, the company made its first acquisition of Cloth World, a 342-store southern company; at the time of the acquisition, Fabri-Centers operated 655 stores.In 1998, they acquired House of Fabrics, which also operated as Fabricland and Fabric King. At that time, Fabri-Centers renamed the company Jo-Ann Stores Inc. and converted all House of Fabrics, Fabricland, Fabric King, and Cloth World stores to simply Jo-Ann Fabrics. Today, it is a leading national specialty retailer of crafting, decorating and sewing products.On December 23, 2010, their stores, the US fabric and craft retailer, has become the latest US chain to be targeted by a private-equity buy-out, announcing plans to sell out to Leonard Green for $1.6bn in cash.

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