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A.C. Moore
Type	Public (NASDAQ: ACMR)
Founded	1985
Headquarters	Berlin, New Jersey, U.S.
Industry	Retail
Products	Arts & Crafts, Scrapbooking, Home Decor
Website	www.acmoore.com

A.C. Moore (NASDAQ: ACMR) is an arts and crafts retail chain with 132 locations in the eastern United States, with its corporate headquarters in located in Berlin, New Jersey.^[1]^[2] AC Moore sells a variety of arts and crafts products, including scrapbooking, beading, knitting, rubber stamping, home decor items, floral items, Kid's Crafts, paints, framing, greenery and seasonal items.

A.C. Moore was founded as a single arts and crafts store by Jack Parker in 1985. The store went public in 1997, and the chain's annual sales reached $590 million in 2006, but the company showed a $400,000 loss that year and started a program of modernization, hiring former Office Depot executive Rick Lepley as C.E.O.^[2]

[edit] References

^ Van Allen, Peter. (May 14, 2009). Sales plunge, loss widens at A.C. Moore Arts & Crafts
^ ^a ^b Panaritis, Maria (2008-06-10). "A.C. Moore crafting a turnaround". The Philadelphia Inquirer.