Brooks Brothers Group 401(k) and pension plans

Brooks Brothers Group, Inc., Enfield, CT. EIN 51-0368883. Annual reports 2009–2019. Also filed as Retail Brand Alliance, Inc.

Brooks Brothers Group, Inc. has no active retirement plan on file. Its last annual report was for 2019. Its Retail Brand Alliance, Inc. Tax Incentive Savings Plan was merged into Brooks Brothers 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan in 2010. Some of its pension plans were taken over by the PBGC.

Active plans
0
Plans on file
3
Industry
Retail

All 3 plans

Active plans first

The Brooks Brothers Pension Plan

Pension (defined benefit), frozenTaken over by the PBGC

Taken over by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation on January 25, 2021, after the plan ended on August 21, 2020. The PBGC now pays the plan's benefits, up to legal limits (PBGC case 23842800).

Plan number
301Employer EIN 51-0368883
Participants when it ended
2,369
Administered by
SegalEarlier: Sibson Consulting (2013–2018)
Who pays it now
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
1-800-400-7242PBGC Customer Contact Center
In effect since
April 29, 1988

Earlier sponsor: Retail Brand Alliance, Inc. (2009).

Earlier plan names: Brooks Brothers, Inc. Pension Plan; Brooks Brothers Pension Plan.

Year by year, 2009 to 2019
Plan yearParticipantsNet assetsRecordkeeper
20192,435$59.3 millionSegal
20182,555$55.0 millionSibson Consulting
20172,806$62.9 millionSibson Consulting
20162,867$56.4 millionSibson Consulting
20153,084$52.5 millionSibson Consulting
20143,206$56.6 millionSibson Consulting
20133,178$53.8 millionSibson Consulting
20123,158$47.2 millionnot listed
20113,135$40.3 millionnot listed
20103,088$38.5 millionnot listed
20093,174$32.0 millionnot listed

Retail Brand Alliance, Inc. Pension Plan

Cash balance pension, frozenTaken over by the PBGC

Taken over by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation on January 25, 2021, after the plan ended on August 21, 2020. The PBGC now pays the plan's benefits, up to legal limits (PBGC case 23842900).

Plan number
001Employer EIN 51-0368883
Participants when it ended
1,145
Administered by
SegalEarlier: Sibson Consulting (2013–2018)
Who pays it now
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
1-800-400-7242PBGC Customer Contact Center
In effect since
October 1, 1995

Earlier sponsor: Retail Brand Alliance, Inc. (2009).

Year by year, 2009 to 2019
Plan yearParticipantsNet assetsRecordkeeper
20191,178$33.8 millionSegal
20181,260$32.4 millionSibson Consulting
20171,360$37.8 millionSibson Consulting
20161,459$36.6 millionSibson Consulting
20151,528$36.9 millionSibson Consulting
20142,360$54.7 millionSibson Consulting
20132,611$54.1 millionSibson Consulting
20122,669$48.8 millionnot listed
20112,732$43.4 millionnot listed
20102,785$45.4 millionnot listed
20092,836$34.7 millionnot listed

Retail Brand Alliance, Inc. Tax Incentive Savings Plan

401(k)Merged

Merged. In 2010 its assets moved to the Brooks Brothers 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, sponsored by Bbopco, LLC. (EIN 51-0368883, plan 004). Accounts moved with them, so that plan is the one to contact.

Plan number
002Employer EIN 51-0368883
Participants (2009)
1,759
Net assets (2009)
$70.0 million
Recordkeeper
Fidelity2009–2010
Plan administrator
Retail Brand Alliance, Inc. Erisa Compliance and Investment
100 Phoenix Avenue
Enfield, CT 06082
(860) 741-0771As filed for 2010
In effect since
January 1, 1996
Year by year, 2009 to 2010
Plan yearParticipantsNet assetsRecordkeeper
20100n/aFidelity
20091,759$70.0 millionFidelity

Plans that moved to another employer

PlanNow sponsored bySince
Brooks Brothers 401(k) Retirement Savings PlanBbopco, LLC.2020

These plans once filed under Brooks Brothers Group's tax ID and are now filed by another employer, usually after a sale or spin-off. Accounts moved with them.

If you had money in one of these plans

  1. If your plan was merged, your account moved with it. Follow the link on the plan to the plan it went into, and contact that one.
  2. For a pension the PBGC took over, call the PBGC at 1-800-400-7242 or search its unclaimed pensions. Have the plan name and your Social Security number ready.
  3. Still stuck? The Department of Labor's benefits advisers help for free: askebsa.dol.gov or 1-866-444-3272. Never pay anyone to find your own money.

What these numbers are

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 datasets and PBGC trusteed plans. How we read them.

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