Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares.
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Each store offered a wide selection of merchandise with special emphasis placed on fashion apparel, accessories and fashion home furnishings. This was aimed at middle and upper-middle income consumers. In addition to its department store operations the company maintained a partnership position in five operating shopping center ventures. Each of these centers had a retail outlet of the company.
The store chain was formed in 1914 out of the bankruptcy of H.B. Claflin & Company. Its stores were separated into two store chains, Associated Dry Goods - with brands such as Lord & Taylor and Hengerer's - and Mercantile Stores Company. In May 1998 Mercantile Stores was acquired by Dillard's of Little Rock, Arkansas, for $2.9 billion (~$5.06 billion in 2023). Later that year, Dillard's announced plans to sell off 26 of the newly acquired locations where there already were Dillard's stores to The May Department Stores Company and Proffitt's Inc.[1]
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^"Dillard's agrees to sell 26 stores acquired in Mercantile purchase". Desert News. Aug 3, 1998. Retrieved 2020-01-02.
mercantile, stores, company, mercantile, stores, company, until, 1998, traditional, department, store, retailer, operating, fashion, apparel, stores, home, fashion, stores, states, stores, were, operated, under, different, nameplates, varied, size, with, avera. Mercantile Stores Company Inc until 1998 was a traditional department store retailer operating 102 fashion apparel stores and 16 home fashion stores in 17 states The stores were operated under 13 different nameplates and varied in size with the average store approximating 170 000 sq ft 16 000 m2 Store names included Bacon s Castner Knott deLendrecie s Gayfers Glass Block Hennessy s J B White also known as White s The Jones Store Company Joslins Lion Store Maison Blanche McAlpin s and Root s Mercantile Stores Company Inc Company typedepartment storesIndustryRetailFounded1914Defunct1998Fatebought by Dillard s Inc Headquarters9450 Seward RoadFairfield Ohio 45014 Cincinnati Ohio ProductsClothing footwear bedding furniture jewelry beauty products and housewares WebsiteWas http www mercstores com Each store offered a wide selection of merchandise with special emphasis placed on fashion apparel accessories and fashion home furnishings This was aimed at middle and upper middle income consumers In addition to its department store operations the company maintained a partnership position in five operating shopping center ventures Each of these centers had a retail outlet of the company The store chain was formed in 1914 out of the bankruptcy of H B Claflin amp Company Its stores were separated into two store chains Associated Dry Goods with brands such as Lord amp Taylor and Hengerer s and Mercantile Stores Company In May 1998 Mercantile Stores was acquired by Dillard s of Little Rock Arkansas for 2 9 billion 5 06 billion in 2023 Later that year Dillard s announced plans to sell off 26 of the newly acquired locations where there already were Dillard s stores to The May Department Stores Company and Proffitt s Inc 1 References edit Dillard s agrees to sell 26 stores acquired in Mercantile purchase Desert News Aug 3 1998 Retrieved 2020 01 02 Communications Emmis May 1996 Momentum Mounts Cincinnati Magazine 49 Retrieved September 4 2009 39 19 24 N 84 29 32 W 39 32329 N 84 49216 W 39 32329 84 49216 nbsp This United States retail business article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Mercantile Stores Company Inc amp oldid 1174680279, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
