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Waldenbooks. Website. www.borders.com(2001 archive) Borders Group, Inc.(former NYSEticker symbol BGP) was an American multinational book and music retailerbased in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. In its final year, the company employed about 19,500 people throughout the U.S., primarily in its Borders and Waldenbooksstores. [1][2]
K·B Toys (also known as Kay Bee Toys) [ 1 ] was an American chain of mall-based retail toy stores. The company was founded in 1922 as Kaufman Brothers, a wholesale candy store. The company opened a wholesale toy store in 1946, and ended its candy wholesales two years later to emphasize its toy products. Retail sales began during the 1970s ...
housewares. The May Department Stores Company was an American department store holding company, formerly headquartered in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. [ 1] It was founded in Leadville, Colorado, by David May in 1877, moving to St. Louis in 1905. [ 2] After many changes in the retail industry, the company merged with Federated Department Stores ...
A Bombay Company store in Canada. The Bombay Company is an American furniture and home accessories retailer owned (since 2021) by an undisclosed LLC. At one time a chain of over 500 stores headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, Bombay Company was relaunched in 2012 as an online store. After its owners arranged a new licensing deal, a second online ...
A company store owned and operated by the U.S. Coal and Coke Company in Lynch, Kentucky, 1946. A company store is a retail store selling a limited range of food, clothing and daily necessities to employees of a company. It is typical of a company town in a remote area where virtually everyone is employed by one firm, such as a coal mine.
Best Buy. [1] Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota. Originally founded by Richard M. Schulze and James Wheeler in 1966 as an audio specialty store called Sound of Music, it was rebranded under its current name with an emphasis on consumer electronics in 1983. Best ...
Big Bear. Big Bear Stores was an American regional supermarket chain operating in the U.S. states of Ohio and West Virginia between 1933 and 2004. The company was founded in Columbus, Ohio, and was headquartered there until its acquisition by Syracuse, New York –based Penn Traffic in 1989. Upon Penn Traffic's bankruptcy in 2004, all remaining ...
The Book Loft of German Village is an independent bookstore in the German Village neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. Opened in 1977 and described by the Columbus Business First as "iconic" and a "tourist destination", [1] the store has also been called "a national treasure" by The New York Times. [2] The Book Loft has been described by visitors as ...