Sears, Roebuck, and Company

As an innovator, the company is well known for starting many trends that would impact the retail industry. R.H. Macy & Company was the first to advance a female to be an executive, Margaret Getchell. This act made history in the business world. They were also the first business to sell the

Lowe’s began in 1921 in North Carolina by a man named Lucius Lowe. Lowe’s has been publicly held since around 1961. Lowe died in 1940 and the business was sold to his brother Jim Lowe. In 1943 Lucius Lowe’s son in law, H. Carl Buchan became partners with Jim Lowe. Around 1952 Buchan became the sole business owner when Jim Lowe died. Buchan seen the potential the business had and wanted to expand the

Sears, Roebuck and Co began in the 19th century and sold farm supplies and consumer items as a small mail order company. The first Sears retail store opened up in Chicago on the 2nd February 1925 in the building named the Merchandise. This store had included a soda fountain and an optical shop. The first detached and separate retail store opened up on the 5th October 1925 in a city called Evansville in Indiana. During the summer season in 1928 3 more Chicago department stores opened newly, one on the 63rd and Western a second on the south side at Kenwood and 77th, and the third at north side at Lawrence and Winchester Street. In 1929

In 1916, the Dayton Company became a founding member of the Retail Research Association, a cooperative of leading retailers. In 1918 the association expand and is renamed the Associate Merchandise Corporation.

By 1895, Sears’s mail order business was gaining market acceptance and the Sears catalog expanded to 532 items consisting of ‘soup to nuts’ products for their customers (Sears Archive, 2012), supporting the theory that early innovators do not have a restriction on what they bring to market (Innovation Zen, 2006). Sears’s core competencies are innovation, selling, advertising, and merchandising (Sears Archive, 2012).

“ Deere became a major plow manufacturer, and in 1868 he founded Deere & Company in Moline, Illinois, to manufacture plows and other farm machinery”(Source B).To this day, there has been millions of these items sold. ”During the Civil War the company prospered as it diversified its output to include wagons, carriages, and a full line of agricultural equipment”(Source A). Deere sold his shop to his partner, Andrus in 1847.

In 1890 clergyman Washington Gladden wrote an article called “The Embattled Farmers”. In it he blamed the ruin of the farmers on “protective tariffs, trusts…speculation in farm products, over-greedy middlemen, and exorbitant transportation rates.”

Frederick Weyerhaeuser and 15 partners in January of 1900 started the company. They started by purchasing 900,000 acres of land from Northern Pacific Railway in Washington. At the time that was the largest private purchase of land in the United States. The 15 partners, against Frederick’s suggestion, named the company Weyerhaeuser in his honor. The headquarters was set up in Tacoma Washington.

The Dawson Lumber Company was founded in the 1870s by the Dawson family to market the lumber on their land. In 1950, Dawson Lumber owned four small lumber yards in the Corn

In this page we will be discussing the direct business, recent performance, customers, and competitors of JCPenney. JCPenney is one of the largest apparel and home furnishing retail store whose vision statement is “America’s Store.” They dedicate themselves to fitting the diversity of America through their style, quality and value. Across all their stores and at jcpenney.com, customers will discover a mass variety of products from their private label to national labels.

The story of Kohl's commenced during 1962 in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Founded by Max Kohl, the company initially began as a department store, meaning it sold a variety of goods, which back then included food produce. The company BATUS inc., a division of British American Tobacco, took control of Kohl’s Food department by purchasing 80% of their stake. BATUS was not able to deal with the amounting competition, so they went out of the retail business by the mid 1980’s, and later sold Kohl’s food stores to the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea company (A&P) in 1983.

Nordstrom was co founded 1901 by a 30 year old man named John W Nordstrom and his partner Carl Wallin. At age 16, John W of Sweden left his home and moved to Alaska where he struck gold. While in Alaska, he met a man named Carl Wallin, “who owned a shoe repair shop in downtown Seattle” (Nordstrom Employee, 2006). The two decided form a partnership and open a shoe store entitled Wallin & Nordstrom.

Company Background: The company was originally started in 1853 by John Bausch in Rochester, New York. The small store excelled because Bausch discovered

They started selling quality furniture, bedrooms and other things made of wood but in 1930 because of the Great depression they started to look for other market and products so the company could survive this economic situation that affect all the US. Because of this they started

Maytag Corporation was founded in 1893 by Fred L Maytag and two other men. The company built its first washing machine in 1907. From there the company quickly expanded into a national corporation. With the sweeping globalization movement of the 1990’s, Maytag has attempted to establish a presence as a global competitor in the appliance industry.