L Brands, Inc. (NYSE:LB)

Limited Brands, Inc. operates as a specialty retailer of women’s intimate and other apparel, beauty, and personal care products and accessories primarily in the United States and Canada. It offers lingerie, fragrances, cosmetics, shower gels, lotions, antibacterial soaps, and accessories under the Victoria’s Secret, Victoria’s Secret Pink, Bath & Body Works, C.O. Bigelow, White Barn Candle Company, La Senza, and Henri Bendel brand names. The company sells its merchandise through company-owned specialty retail stores, Websites, and catalogues, as well as through franchise, license, and wholesale partners. As of March 12, 2012, it operated 2,620 specialty stores in the United States; and approximately 700 company-operated and franchised additional locations world-wide. The company, formerly known as The Limited, Inc., was founded in 1963 and is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.