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Yankee Candle
American manufacturer and retailer
The Yankee Candle Company, Inc.,[3]doing business asYankee Candle, is an American manufacturer and retailer of scented candles, candleholders, accessories, and dinnerware.
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Its products are sold by thousands of gift shops nationwide, through catalogs, and online, and in nearly 50 countries around the world. The company operates just over 260 small-box format stores,[1] located in malls across 43 U.S.
states[4] and Ontario, and is the largest candle manufacturer in the United States. The company is headquartered in South Deerfield, Massachusetts.
The Jarden Corporation agreed to buy Yankee Candle for $1.75 billion in the fall of 2013.[5] In 2015, Newell Rubbermaid announced that it would acquire Jarden for over $15 billion of cash and stock.
History
Yankee Candle Company was started in South Hadley, Massachusetts when Michael Kittredge, originally from Holyoke, Massachusetts, crea