
	Charming Shoppes&nbsp;is a specialty and&nbsp;plus size clothing&nbsp;retail holding company based in&nbsp;Bensalem, Pennsylvania; a suburb of&nbsp;Philadelphia. Its subsidiaries are&nbsp;Lane Bryant,&nbsp;Cacique&nbsp;and&nbsp;Catherines Plus.&nbsp;Clothes are sold from over 2300 retail stores in the United States, as well as numerous catalogs and online sites.&nbsp;Charming Shoppes was founded in 1940, went public in 1971,&nbsp;and was ranked 810th on the 2010&nbsp;Fortune 1000.
