Build-A-Bear Workshop, Inc. is company providing a make your own stuffed animal interactive retail-entertainment experience. As of January 3, 2009, the Company operated 346 company owned retail stores in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and France, including 292 Build-A-Bear Workshop stores in the United States and Canada, one stand-alone friends 2B made store in the United States, 51 Build-A-Bear Workshop stores in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and three Build-A-Bear Workshop stores in France. It also operated eight friends 2B made stores adjacent to or within Build-A-Bear Workshop stores in the United States. Franchisees operated 62 Build-A-Bear Workshop stores in other international locations.