Ascena Retail Group (formerly Dress Barn, Inc.) has left the farm for greener retail pastures. The apparel and accessories retailer operates about 4,900 specialty stores throughout the US, Puerto Rico, and Canada. Its 800-plus dressbarn stores court women ages 35 to 55. Maurices, with some 990-plus locations, targets 17-to-34-year-old females in towns with populations between 25,000 and 100,000. Its second-largest chain, Justice and its Charming Shoppes subsidiary, courts "tweens" at about 940 stores and online. In 2015, Ascena purchased upscale retailer ANN, which became Ascena's largest segment and added Ann Taylor, Lou & Grey, and LOFT stores.