Lane Elected at TJX

By Staff -- Home Textiles Today, 11/7/2005 12:00:00 AM

Framingham, Mass. — —

Framingham, Mass. — The TJX Companies, Inc. has elected Amy Lane to its board of directors.

Lane was an investment banker for 25 years, specializing in the retail industry. She currently serves as the presiding director of Borders Group, Inc. and is a trustee at MFS Funds and Federal Realty Investment Trust, where she also serves as chair of the Compensation Committee.

From 1997 until her retirement in 2002, Lane served as group leader of the Global Retailing Investment Banking Group at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

Before working at Merrill Lynch, she founded and led the retail industry investment banking unit at Salomon Brothers, Inc., having joined that firm in 1989.