rue21

American specialty retailer of young men and women’s casual apparel and accessories
Organization business Q7377762
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rue21

Summary

rue21 is a business[1]. rue21 ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,079 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • rue21 is in the country of United States[3].
  • rue21 is in the country of US[4].
  • rue21's instance of is recorded as business[5].
  • rue21's instance of is recorded as clothing store chain[6].
  • rue21's headquarters location is recorded as Warrendale[7].
  • rue21's Commons category is recorded as Rue21[8].
  • rue21's industry is recorded as retail[9].
  • 1987 marks the founding of rue21[10].
  • 2009-10-28 marks the founding of rue21[11].
  • rue21's parent organization or unit is recorded as YM Inc[12].
  • rue21's official website is recorded as https://www.rue21.com/[13].
  • rue21's legal form is recorded as XTIQ[14].
  • rue21's social media followers is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+33292'}[15].
  • rue21's social media followers is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+34714'}[16].
  • rue21's social media followers is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+32457'}[17].
  • rue21's social media followers is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+32005'}[18].
  • rue21's location information URL is recorded as https://stores.rue21.com/[19].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300CLJ5ZZD0L0WS69[20]

  • Registered legal name: Rue21, INC.[21]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[22]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[23]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): XTIQ[24]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[25]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[26]

  • Entity created: 2009-10-28[27]

  • LEI first registered: 2014-10-16[28]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-07-24[29]

  • LEI next renewal: 2017-08-29[30]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[31]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[32]

  • Authority entity ID: 4746888[33]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[34]

Body

Founding

Recorded inception include 1987[10] and 2009-10-28[11].

Operations

rue21's headquarters location is recorded as Warrendale[7]. rue21's parent organization or unit is recorded as YM Inc[12].

Industry

rue21's industry is recorded as retail[9].

Why It Matters

rue21 ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,079 views/month).[2] rue21 is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . postedium.com. postedium.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . ym-inc.com. Retrieved . ym-inc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [20] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [23] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [24] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [25] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [26] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [27] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [33] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [34] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). rue21. Retrieved October 4, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/rue21
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_rue21_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{rue21}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/rue21}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-04}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 8F02-C851-C5E4-0708-76C3
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P14750]]: 8F02-C851-C5E4-0708-76C3, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269257|batch #269257]]"
  2. 19w ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Headquarters location → Warrendale
    Inception → +1987-00-00T00:00:00Z, 2009-10-28
    Osm name suggestion index id → rue21-0a21d9
    Crunchbase organization id → rue21
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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