Designer Brands 401(k) plan

Designer Brands Inc., Columbus, OH. EIN 31-0746639. Annual reports 2009–2025. Also filed as DSW Inc.

Designer Brands Inc. has one active retirement plan on file, the Designer Brands Inc. 401(k) Plan, with 10,010 participants and $277 million in assets in 2025. Fidelity has been its recordkeeper since 2014. No traditional pension plan appears in Designer Brands's filings since 2009.

Active plans: 1
Participants: 10,010
Plan assets: $277 million
401(k) recordkeeper: Fidelity
Plans on file: 1
Industry: Retail

The plan

Designer Brands Inc. 401(k) Plan

401(k)Active

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2025 plan year.

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 31-0746639
Participants (2025): 10,010
Net assets (2025): $277 million
Recordkeeper: FidelityEarlier: MassMutual (2013), Hartford Retirement Services (2009–2012)
Plan administrator: Designer Brands Inc.
810 DSW Drive
Columbus, OH 43219
(614) 237-7100As filed for 2025
In effect since: July 1, 2008

Earlier sponsor: DSW Inc. (2009–2018).

Earlier plan names: DSW Inc. 401(k) Plan.

Year by year, 2009 to 2025

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2025	10,010	$277 million	Fidelity
2024	11,355	$242 million	Fidelity
2023	8,284	$227 million	Fidelity
2022	8,682	$187 million	Fidelity
2021	7,389	$224 million	Fidelity
2020	7,681	$199 million	Fidelity
2019	8,234	$141 million	Fidelity
2018	7,182	$111 million	Fidelity
2017	7,205	$115 million	Fidelity
2016	7,078	$94.7 million	Fidelity
2015	5,557	$83.2 million	Fidelity
2014	4,443	$77.2 million	Fidelity
2013	5,207	$71.0 million	MassMutual
2012	4,529	$53.5 million	Hartford Retirement Services
2011	3,638	$44.4 million	Hartford Retirement Services
2010	9,426	$41.3 million	Hartford Retirement Services
2009	3,190	$33.8 million	Hartford Retirement Services

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Fidelity (fidelity.com), which runs the Designer Brands Inc. 401(k) Plan. With your Social Security number and the plan name, it can tell you whether you still have a balance and, if not, where it went.
Or call the plan administrator listed on the plan below ((614) 237-7100). That number was filed for 2025; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
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

They come from the Form 5500 annual reports each plan files with the Department of Labor, as the plan filed them. A plan year is usually a calendar year.
Participants counts everyone in the plan at year end: current employees, former employees who still have a balance or a pension coming, and retirees or beneficiaries being paid.
The recordkeeper is the service provider whose Schedule C entry says it keeps the plan's records. Small plans do not file Schedule C, so some plans show none.
We cannot see anyone's account. Only the plan or its recordkeeper can tell you your balance.

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

The plan

Designer Brands Inc. 401(k) Plan

If you had money in one of these plans

What these numbers are

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