Ownership profile
Who owns Burlington Coat Factory?
Burlington Coat Factory is a consumer brand operated by Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Burlington Stores, Inc., a publicly traded company on the NYSE (ticker: BURL); private equity firm Bain Capital owned the business from 2006 to approximately 2015, but fully exited following the company's 2013 IPO, and no PE firm holds a significant stake today.
Ownership profile
Burlington Coat Factory
Burlington Stores, Inc. (parent) / Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation (operating entity)
Evidence (9)
Burlington Stores, Inc. (NYSE: BURL) is actively trading on the NYSE with a market capitalization of approximately $18.92 billion as of July 2026.
https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/NYSE-BURL/Burlington Stores, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company whose common stock trades on the NYSE under ticker symbol 'BURL', with Fiscal 2025 net sales of $11.5 billion and 1,242 stores as of Q1 Fiscal 2026.
https://www.burlingtoninvestors.com/In 2006, Bain Capital Partners acquired Burlington Coat Factory in a leveraged buyout for approximately $2.06 billion, taking it private.
https://www.financecharts.com/stocks/BURL/profileThe SEC 10-K filing for Burlington Coat Factory Investments Holdings, Inc. (2014) confirms the operating entity is Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation, directly owned by Burlington Coat Factory Holdings, LLC, which is indirectly owned by Burlington Stores, Inc. as ultimate parent.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/718916/000119312514154994/d667556d10k.htmBurlington Coat Factory went public again in October 2013 on the NYSE under the ticker symbol BURL, raising approximately $187.5 million.
https://www.financecharts.com/stocks/BURL/profileSEC filings and the 2025 DEF 14A show no dual-class share structure or controlling shareholder; Burlington operates with a one-share, one-vote principle.
https://portersfiveforce.com/blogs/owners/burlingtonBurlington Coat Factory is operated as a division of Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation, headquartered in Burlington Township, New Jersey, with more than 1,138 stores across 46 states and Puerto Rico.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington_(department_store)As of Q1 2025, institutional investors hold approximately 98.5% of Burlington Stores shares; individual insider ownership is under 1%, with top holders including Vanguard Group (~10.9%), BlackRock (~8.8%), and T. Rowe Price (~7.6%).
https://matrixbcg.com/blogs/owners/burlingtonBain Capital fully exited its position by approximately 2015, resulting in a broadly institutionally held public company with no single controlling PE sponsor.
https://matrixbcg.com/blogs/owners/burlingtonWhat's uncertain
- The exact date of Bain Capital's full exit is cited as 'by 2015' in secondary sources; no primary SEC filing or press release confirming the precise exit date was directly reviewed in this search.
- The intermediate holding company structure (Burlington Coat Factory Investments Holdings, Inc. / Burlington Coat Factory Holdings, LLC) was confirmed via a 2014 SEC 10-K; the current legal structure below Burlington Stores, Inc. may have been simplified since then but was not re-verified against a post-2020 SEC filing.
- No Burlington Coat Factory-specific privacy policy or terms of service were reviewed for a data controller entity check; the investor relations page at burlingtoninvestors.com is treated as authoritative for the public company status.