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The first store was located in Hingham, Massachusetts. During the following year, they established a direct mail service which would originate their catalog service. In 1973, General Mills acquired Talbots. Talbots was listed on the New York Stock Exchange beginning in 1993. Arnold Zetcher is the CEO of Talbots.

At the end of 2005, there were 1,083 stores in the United States, Canada, and the UK, as well as 4 stores in Japan. The company operates a product development office in New York City, a distribution center in Lakeville, Massachusetts, a computer center in Tampa, Florida, that changed facilities and moved into its new building on September 5, 2006, and a call center in Knoxville, Tennessee. The corporate headquarters is still in Hingham. A majority of the outstanding shares of Talbots' common stock is owned by Aeon (U.S.A.), Inc.

On Feb 6, 2006, Talbots acquired women's clothing retailer J. Jill Group Inc.

Talbots has an unusually liberal guarantee; the company allows returns of merchandise, for any reason, with no time limit. (Refer to the website talbots.com or any catalogue for statement of the guarantee.)

Hal Bosworth Jr., the EVP of Merchandising and CMO is Kate Bosworth's father.