J. C. Penney Company is a holding company for struggling department store operator J. C. Penney Corp. One of the largest department store and e-commerce retailers in the US, J. C. Penney Corp. operates more than 1,000 JCPenney department stores in 49 states and Puerto Rico. Its stores are mostly found in suburban shopping malls, and sell clothing for men, women, and children, as well as accessories, homeware, appliances, and curtains and drapes. They may contain shop-in-shops like Sephora cosmetics, Seattle's Best Coffee, US Vision, among others. Founded in 1902, current CEO Marvin Ellison is tasked with steadying the ship after his two predecessors were unable to do so.