General

        Sears Holdings Corporation ("Holdings" or the "Company") is the parent company of Kmart Holding Corporation ("Kmart") and Sears, Roebuck and Co. ("Sears"). Holdings was formed as a Delaware corporation in 2004 in connection with the merger of Kmart and Sears (the "Merger"). The Merger, completed on March 24, 2005, combined two of America's oldest existing retail entities, both with origins dating to the late 1800s. The Company is a broadline retailer with approximately 2,300 full-line and 1,100 specialty retail stores in the United States operating through Kmart and Sears and approximately 370 full-line and...