Trans World Entertainment Corporation is one of the largest specialty music and video retailers in the United States. Founded in 1972, the Company currently operates over 800 stores in 47 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and operates a retail Web site at www.fye.com. Its stores are divided into two categories: mall-based and freestanding. Trans World's national mall-based portfolio is now united under the brand name FYE (For Your Entertainment); the portfolio also includes select Saturday Matinee movie stores. Freestanding stores include Wherehouse Music, Coconuts Music & Movies, Strawberries, Spec's, CD World, Streetside Records and Planet Music.

The Company offers a wide selection of entertainment products, including CDs, DVDs, prerecorded audio and videocassettes and related accessories. The Company's headquarters, along with its main distribution center, is in Albany, NY with another distribution facility in North Canton, OH as well as one in Carson, CA.

Trans World Entertainment, which established itself as a public company in 1986, is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol "TWMC".