No footnotes date October 2008 GeeBeeDepartmentStores began in Johnstown, Pennsylvania , United States , in 1906 when the Glosser brothers opened a small one room shop in the Franklin Building. The chain branched out in the 1960s with the opening of the suburban GeeBee discount stores. Most of the stores, including the original, which retained the full Glosser name, remained open into the late 1980s early 1990s. The chain operated 23 stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia at its peak in the 1980s. The Franklin Building was redeveloped in the mid 1990s. The GeeBee locations were sold off over the years to other chain stores. After the Glosser Brothers company was purchased by Value City Value City DepartmentStores in May 1992, Many GeeBeeStores were converted to the Value City format. A GeeBee Junior clothing store existed in Upper Yoder Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania Upper Yoder, Pennsylvania , also a suburb outside Johnstown. That store closed in 1993. External links http www.collegian.psu.edu archive 1989 03 03 30 89tdc 03 30 89dnews 02.asp Local GeeBee unaffected by national store closings http www.johnstown redevelopment.org glosser.htm Glosser Brothers building redevelopment http www.findarticles.com p articles mi m3092 is n3 v29 ai 8769171 1990 Glosser Brothers Chapter 11 buyout article Category Defunct discount stores of the United States Category Companies established in 1906 Category Companies disestablished in 1992 Category Johnstown, Pennsylvania Category Companies based in Pennsylvania ... more details
GeeBee may refer to Granville Brothers Aircraft , an aircraft manufacturer GeeBee R 1 , a racing plane built by Granville Brothers Aircraft GeeBee Sportster , family of sports aircraft built by Granville Brothers Aircraft GeeBee Senior Sportster GeeBee Model Y Senior Sportster , a sports aircraft built by Granville Brothers Aircraft GeeBee Model Z , a racing plane built by Granville Brothers Aircraft GeeBeeDepartmentStoresGeeBee arcade game , a 1978 arcade game by Namco the nickname of the Finnish boxer Gunnar B rlund disambiguation ... more details
refimprove date April 2011 Infobox VG title GeeBee image Image GeeBee arcadeflyer.png U.S. arcade flyer of GeeBee. caption U.S. arcade flyer of GeeBee . developer Namco publisher vgrelease JP Namco vgrelease NA Gremlin Industries designer T ru Iwatani release 1978 genre Pinball br Breakout clone Breakout clone modes Up to two players, alternating turns cabinet Upright, cabaret, and cocktail arcade system Namco Warp & Warp display Vertical orientation, Raster graphics Raster input Paddle 1 button platforms Arcade game Arcade GeeBee is Namco s first internally designed arcade game , released in 1978. It was developed by T ru Iwatani , who went on to create Pac Man . ref name KLOV KLOV game id 7927 name GeeBee ref It was released in the United States by Gremlin Industries Gremlin this version replaces the NAMCO letters on the light up bumpers with Gremlin s distinctive G logo. This is a combination of pinball style game with that of a Breakout clone ball and paddle game where the player bounces a ball into blocks. The goal of the game is to keep the ball from falling to the bottom of the screen for as long as possible and get the high score. ref name KLOV There were two sequels, Bomb Bee and Cutie Q , which were also designed by Iwatani and released in the following year. ref name KLOV References reflist External links KLOV game id 7927 name GeeBee NamcoBandai stub arcade stub pinball videogame stub paddle videogame stub Category 1978 video games Category Arcade games Category Breakout clones Category Gremlin Industries games Category Namco games Category Pinball video games ja pt GeeBee ... more details
page content for recommended layout. Infobox Aircraft Begin name GeeBee Model Z image File GeeBee Model Z Reproduction.jpg caption A replica of the GeeBee Model Z Infobox Aircraft Type type Racing ... from variants with their own articles developed into GeeBee Model R The Granville GeeBee Model Z ..., starting the reputation of the GeeBee aircraft as killers. Design and development Suffering from the effects ... aircraftpages geebee.htm GeeBee Model Z . Fantasy of Flight Air Museum . Retrieved May 26, 2010. ref Constructed in less than five weeks at a cost of under 5,000 USD , the GeeBee for Granville ... name Weeks Operational history First flying on August 22, 1931, the GeeBee Z quickly proved to be tricky to fly, ref name MoF http www.museumofflight.org aircraft granville brothers geebee z city springfield Granville Brothers GeeBee Z City of Springfield. The Museum of Flight . Retrieved May 26 ... , the GeeBee Z established a world speed record for landplanes of convert 267.342 mph km h ref name ... 5, the aircraft s engineer, Robert Hall aircraft designer Bob Hall , flew the GeeBee Z to victory ..., who finished fourth in a GeeBee Model Y . ref name ARH http www.airracinghistory.freeola.com aircraft GeeBee 20Z.htm GeeBee Z. Air Racing History . Retrieved May 26, 2010. ref Following the Thompson Trophy race, the GeeBee Z was re engined with a larger, convert 750 hp kW adj on Pratt & Whitney ... that the aircraft s fuel cap had come loose and crashed through the GeeBee Z s windscreen. ref ... that the GeeBee Z was susceptible to Aeroelasticity Flutter aerodynamic flutter at high speed. ref ... Trophy winning GeeBee Model Z Model Z . Legacy Film of the crash of the GeeBee Z has become ... the reputation of GeeBee racing aircraft as killers. ref name Weeks The Super Sportster design would be refined into the GeeBee Model R for the 1932 air race season. ref Bowers 1965 ref Two reproductions of the GeeBee Z have been constructed. One, a faithful reproduction of the original aircraft ... more details
About 1978 arcade game GeeBee arcade game other uses GeeBee disambiguation This article is a part of Wikipedia ... layout. Infobox Aircraft Begin name GeeBee Model R image Image GeeBee R 1.jpg caption Reproduction of the GeeBee R 1 at the New England Air Museum . Infobox Aircraft Type type Racing aircraft ... users produced number built program cost unit cost developed from GeeBee Model Z variants with their own articles developed into The GeeBee Model R Super Sportster was a special purpose Air racing ... . GeeBee stands for Granville Brothers. Design and development The 1932 R 1 and its sister plane, the R 2, were the successors of the previous year s Thompson Trophy winning GeeBee Model Z ... geebeer2.html The GeeBee R 1 and R 2 . dgraves549 aol.com, via web.archive.org. Retrieved December 22, 2010. ref Replicas Image GeeBee R2 Oshkosh.jpg thumb right GeeBee R2 flown by Delmar Banjamin ... Diego Air & Space Museum using original plans for the aircraft. ref Wolf, Steve. GeeBee Super ... and Delmar Benjamin that first flew in 1991. ref Benjamin, Delmar. Flying The GeeBee R 2 . EAA Sport ... www.avweb.com avwebflash briefs 186560 1.html GeeBee And Delmar Plan New Lives Apart. avweb.com, January 21, 2004. Retrieved September 18, 2011. ref Specifications GeeBee Super Sportster R 1 Aircraft ... Bee Model Z aircraft. Another GeeBee appears, in a static sequence, at the end of the film. References Notes reflist Bibliography refbegin Benjamin, Delmar and Steve Wolf. GeeBee . Osceola, Wisconsin MBI Publishing Co., 1993. ISBN 0 87938 820 X. Bowers, Pete M. The GeeBee Racers, Number 51 . Leatherhead ... Aircraft. Philadelphia, PA Coronet Books, 1978. ISBN 0 340 21824 X. Haffke, Henry A. GeeBee The Real ..., Inc., 1989. ISBN 0 934575 04 5. Mendenhall, Charles A. and Tom Murphy. The GeeBee Racers ... lab 4515 index3.html& Website dedicated to the GeeBee family of aircraft designs http www.fiddlersgreen.net AC aircraft GeeBee Racer geebee.php Free Fiddlers Green Paper Model site with a good GeeBee ... more details
Citations missing article date April 2012 The Hee BeeGee Bees were a pop group formed initially to parody the Bee Gees towards the close of their sequence of falsetto high pitched , disco style hits. The band consisted of the three Cribb Gibb brothers Garry Barry , Norris Maurice and Dobbin Robin , performed respectively by Angus Deayton , Michael Fenton Stevens , and Philip Pope . The name of group was a reference to both the Bee Gees and the expression heebie jeebies idiom heebie jeebies . Their first single Meaningless Songs in Very High Voices , written by Pope and Richard Curtis , was released by Original Records in 1980 and reached number two in the Australia n singles chart. They failed to have any Top 40 hits in the UK however, and are therefore unmentioned in the British Hit Singles & Albums Guinness Book of British Hit Singles . ref name GuinnessBHS cite book year 1999 isbn 0 85112 092 X title Guinness Book of British Hit Singles publisher Guinness Publishing Ltd edition 12th ref Two albums were subsequently released under the Hee BeeGee Bees name, featuring parodies of various pop groups that had originally been featured in the Radio Active radio series Radio Active radio series, where all three of the comedians were cast members. Tracks included parodies of Supertramp Scatological Song by Supertrash , Michael Jackson Up the Wall by Jack Michaelson , Status Quo band Status Quo Boring Song by Status Quid , The Police Too Depressed to Commit Suicide by The PeeCees , David Bowie Quite Ahead of My Time by David Bowwow , Gary Numan Are Trains Electric? by Gary Inhuman ... Purple Pants Ponce 1984 Albums 439 Golden Greats Never Mind the Originals Here s the Hee BeeGee Bees 1981 The Hee BeeGee Bees Present 20 Big No. 2 s 1984 References Reflist 2 External links http www.mikefs.co.uk ... Radio Active web site DEFAULTSORT Hee BeeGee Bees, The Category English pop music groups Category Parodies Category Parody musicians sv The Hee BeeGee Bees ... more details
Unreferenced date July 2009 Infobox VG title GeeBee Air Rally image developer publisher Activision distributor designer Rob Swigart engine version released 1987 genre Racing modes ratings platforms Commodore 64 C64 , Amiga , Amstrad CPC ZX Spectrum media Floppy disk 5.25 floppy requirements input Joystick GeeBee Air Rally was released in 1987 by Activision as a computer game . The game was made for Amiga , Amstrad CPC , Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum It is a flight simulator set in the 1920s twenties and early 1930s thirties in which the player is the aviator pilot of a small Monoplane airplane . The player s goal is to increase the score by flying the airplane through several races and special events. The player s aircraft is modelled on the Granville Brothers Aircraft Granville Brothers GeeBee Super Sportster Model Z, a flying engine which was the predecessor of the more famous, and even more extreme, GeeBee Model R Model R . This game is single player only and has three difficulty level s, which the player must choose between before beginning play. The player s airplane is always yellow, and the races follow a pattern of three main events and one special event, which alternates between popping 30 balloons and flying to the right of red Wiktionary pylon pylon s and to the left of blue ones. One main obstacle is avoiding collision with other aircraft. After two collisions, the plane will falter and the player s pilot is parachuted out. The player hears the sound of a parachute opening and sees an animation sequence of the pilot drifting to the ground. This is followed by one of several amusing pictures depicting the pilot in various landing places, such as a Sty pigpen , a parched desert , a tree, or a barnyard of chickens, for example. Following successful completion of the special event, a picture of the pilot at an awards ceremony is shown, accompanied by period ... AGDB DBA1 GBAR.html Amiga Games Database review moby game id geebee air rally name GeeBee Air Rally ... more details
ref Development The GeeBee Q.E.D. was started by the Granville Brothers in 1933 prior to their October ... engine, but a Pratt & Whitney Hornet was substituted to make the race delivery date. Design The GeeBee Q.E.D. shares the same general shape as the GeeBee Model R GeeBee R1 racer, but is nearly convert ... A replica of the GeeBee Q.E.D. is under construction by Jim Moss powered by a convert 1425 hp kW 0 ... this aircraft Operators choose Specifications GeeBee Q.E.D. Aircraft specs ref Sport Aviation for giving ... to Mexico City, Mexico to Chetumal, Mexico to M rida and Mexico to Guatemala. ref cite web title GeeBee url http www.aviastar.org gallery 051.html accessdate 16 June 2011 ref 1939 Pilot Francisco Sarabia ... External links http www.airliners.net photo Granville Brothers Gee 1156477 M Airliners.net http ... more details
NOTOC This article is a part of Wikipedia WikiProject Aircraft . Please see Wikipedia WikiProject Aircraft page content for recommended layout. Infobox Aircraft Begin name Model Y Senior Sportster image caption Infobox Aircraft Type type Sports plane national origin United States of America manufacturer Granville Brothers designer Robert Hall aircraft designer Robert Hall first flight avyear 1931 introduced retired status primary user more users produced number built 2 variants with their own articles The Gee Bee Model Y Senior Sportster was a sports aircraft built in the United States in the early 1930s by the Granville Brothers . Essentially an enlarged two seat version of the single seat Gee Bee Sportster Sportster , it was a low wing strut and wire braced monoplane of conventional if short coupled design with open cockpits and fixed tailskid undercarriage. The first of the two examples constructed registration NR11049 was built for the Granville Brothers company itself and served as a support aircraft for the Gee Bee R 1 R 1 and R 2 racers and also for competition in its own right. The other Model Y registration NR718Y was built as an engine testbed for Lycoming Engines Lycoming . This latter aircraft was later refitted with a Wright Whirlwind of nearly double the power of its original powerplant. In this form, it was flown by Florence Klingensmith at the 1933 Chicago International Races, where she won second place in the Women s Free For All and was killed in it while contesting the Phillips Trophy. Specifications aerospecs ref met or eng? eng for US UK aircraft, met for all others. You MUST include one or the other here, or no specifications will show eng crew One pilot capacity 1 passenger length m 6.40 length ft 21 length in 0 span m 9.14 span ft 30 span in 0 swept m swing wings swept ft swing wings swept in swing wings rot number helicopters rot dia m helicopters rot dia ft helicopters rot dia in helicopters dia m airships etc dia ft airships etc dia in air ... more details
NOTOC This article is a part of Wikipedia WikiProject Aircraft . Please see Wikipedia WikiProject Aircraft page content for recommended layout. Infobox Aircraft Begin name Sportster image caption Infobox Aircraft Type type Sports plane national origin United States of America manufacturer Granville Brothers designer Robert Hall aircraft designer Robert Hall first flight avyear 1930 introduced retired status primary user more users produced number built 8 variants with their own articles The Gee Bee Sportsters were a family of sports aircraft built in the United States in the early 1930s by the Granville Brothers . They were low wing strut and wire braced monoplanes of conventional, if short coupled, design, with open cockpits and fixed, tailskid undercarriage. The prototype of the small series, designated Model X was built to compete in the 1930 All American Flying Derby sponsored by the Cirrus Engine Company . The Model X, piloted by Lowell Bayles placed second in the race from Detroit to San Francisco and back, averaging 116.4 mph 186.7 km h over the 5,541 mile 8,887 km distance. Bayles used his share of the 7,000 prize money to purchase the aircraft. The same year, two generally similar aircraft were built, one Model B and one Model C . These differed from the Model X in having landing gear that incorporated shock absorbers, as opposed to the Model X s rigid landing gear that relied on its tyres for shock absorption but while the Model B had a similar Cirrus engine to the Model X, the Model C was fitted with a Menasco B 4 . The Models X, A, and B were only granted restricted registrations by the Department of Commerce , meaning that they could be flown under very specific conditions and only in specific places. In order to obtain unrestricted certification, Granville Brothers produced a revised version called the Model D , the most significant difference in which was a redesigned and larger tail fin. A similar fin was later fitted to the Model C, also enabling it ... more details
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Canteen StoresDepartment CSD is a chain of retail stores run by the Pakistani Ministry of Defence, and has a presence in all major military Cantonments operated by the Pakistan Armed Forces . CSD sells a wide variety of products like household provisions, kitchen appliances, cars, sports equipment, computers, toiletries and textiles items exclusively for active and retired members of the Armed Forces. Generally, these goods are procured by CSD in bulk, and sold at concessional rates, compared with retail prices. ref http www.csd.com.pk new features.html Canteen Store Department Bot generated title ref See also Canteen StoresDepartment India Canteen StoresDepartment Bangladesh References reflist Pakistani Armed Forces Category Military of Pakistan Category Departmentstores of Pakistan Pakistan mil stub ... more details
Infobox Company company name King s company logo fate Bankruptcy all locations sold to Ames successor Ames Department Stores Inc. Ames 1984 2002 foundation Brockton, Massachusetts 1956 defunct 1984 location company type Discount store key people industry Retail distinguish King s Discount Stores King s Department Stores was a chain of discount stores in the Eastern United States. The chain started in 1956, in Brockton, Massachusetts . They expanded to about 190 stores when, in 1978, they purchased the bankrupt Mammoth Mart chain. Three stores operated in the Buffalo, New York area. Because of the Mammoth purchase, they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1982, and in 1984 Ames Department Stores purchased the chain and converted most of them into Ames stores. References No footnotes date April 2009 Rizzo, Michael F. 2007 Nine Nine Eight The Glory Days of Buffalo Shopping Lulu Enterprises, Inc. Morrisville, North Carolina. ISBN 978 1 4303 1386 1. Category Defunct discount stores of the United States Category Companies based in Massachusetts Category Defunct department stores of the United States US retail company stub ... more details
primary sources date September 2011 Interstate DepartmentStores, Inc was originally an American chain of small departmentstores, but soon became a holding company. History Interstate DepartmentStores was incorporated in Delaware on February 14, 1928, it operated twenty three departmentstores in the states of Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin, Kentucky, and West Virginia. In October 1929, Interstate acquired the Aurora Dry Goods Company of Aurora, Illinois. By 1958 Interstate operated 48 stores in fifteen states, selling low and medium price merchandise. In April 1959 Interstate acquired the entire stock of White Front Stores, Inc., of Los Angeles. In the late 1950s, the president Sol Cantor decided to acquire the two store White Front appliance chain. The plan was to make White Front a discount chain instead. A year later, Interstate bought the Topps DepartmentStores discount chain for 4 million. By 1963, White Front had 11 stores. Interstate managed the discount chains, opening more stores. In 1967, Interstate acquired Toys R Us Children s Supermart . By 1968, there were 60 Topps, 28 White Fronts, 32 departmentstores, and eight toy superstores. In the 1970s, sales dropped and Interstate closed several stores. In 1974, Interstate tried to acquire the variety and discount chains owned by McCrory Stores , but failed. Soon, Interstate filed for bankruptcy . Soon, all White Front stores closed, with most being converted to Two Guys . There only chain left, Toys R Us, was decided to become the core business. In 1978, Charles Lazarus founder of Toys R Us ... Realty Trust in 2005, former owner of Two Guys. Chains Interstate DepartmentStores White Front Topps DepartmentStores Toys R Us Sources http pleasantfamilyshopping.blogspot.com 2008 10 youre topps baby.html ... interstate departmentstores inc Havard University Baker Library Interstate DepartmentStores, Inc. http www.toysrusinc.com Toys R Us Corporate Website Category Defunct discount stores of the United ... more details
cleanup date April 2010 FitzGerald s DepartmentStores was Tasmania s largest chain of departmentstores. The chain was rebadged and relaunched as Harris Scarfe in 1995, and the renamed stores continue to trade today. History FitzGerald s was a Tasmanian majority family owned department store business until it was acquired by Charles Davis Limited in 1981. It was by far the largest Tasmanian department store retailer, with a substantial flagship store in Hobart with frontages to Collins Street, Murray Street and Elizabeth Street. FitzGerald s also had substantial stores in Launceston, Tasmania Launceston and Burnie occupying the site of a former theatre , as well as stores in suburban Hobart Eastlands Shopping Centre Eastlands and Moonah, Tasmania Moonah and a small 600 square metre store in New Norfolk occupying a general store built in 1914 . When the Venture department store Venture chain of departmentstores collapsed in 1994, FitzGerald s acquired and rebadged the Venture stores at Devonport, Tasmania Devonport and Ulverstone . Briefly, between 1993 1995, FitzGerald s operated a store at Forest Hill, Victoria Forest Hill in suburban Melbourne . This became Harris Scarfe, and is now a Myer. In 1995, after incurring annual trading losses exceeding 2 million, the FitzGerald s chain was merged with Charles Davis Harris Scarfe department store chain, with all of the stores being brought under Harris Scarfe management and rebadged as Harris Scarfe . The stores continue to operate under the Harris Scarfe banner, with the exception of the New Norfolk branch which closed in 2000 and Eastlands circa 2002 , while the Hobart store has been substantially reduced back to its original Collins St frontage only. References Charles Davis Limited 1995 Annual Report Category Companies based in Tasmania Category Defunct departmentstores of Australia ... more details
Unreferenced date July 2007 Towers , operating as Bonimart in Quebec , was a Canada Canadian discount department store chain owned by the Oshawa Group , a now defunct grocery retailer and distributor. History Image Bonimart.png 275px right thumb Logo of Bonimart stores in Quebec The first store was opened in 1960 in Toronto at the corner of Lawrence Ave. East and Midland Ave. In Quebec, the chain originally traded as Towers in the 1960s but was changed to Bonimart in 1970, with the exception of a store at Place Laurier in Sainte Foy, Quebec which retained the Towers name. Each selling department within a Towers store was operated as a licensed concession. Some Towers Bonimart stores offered services such as restaurants Red Grille , photo labs, and pharmacies within the store. Some stores were also paired with an IGA or Food City Canada Food City grocery store. In 1990, Towers Bonimart s 51 stores were purchased by Zellers for 181.5 million and converted to the Zellers name or closed. The flagship store in Toronto is now a Zellers store. The demise of the Towers and Bonimart didn t affect all the stores of the chain at the same time. Some stores were closed converted immediately after the acquisition by Zellers, while many others folded throughout the year 1991 with the last stores disappearing in the fall of 1991. Towers jingle At Towers everything connects the last day of one sale is the first of the next . Extra Special For Your Family Towers. You made us part of your family at Towers. Towers. Your family s extra special store. Towers mascot was an animated squirrel named Sparky. At the time of the Zellers buyout, print ads featured Sparky arm in arm with Zellers bear mascot, Zeddy. See also List of department stores Canada List of Canadian department stores External links http www.towersdepartmentstores.info TowersDepartmentStores.info Category Companies established in 1960 Category Defunct retail companies of Canada Category Department stores of Canada ... more details
For the department store chain of Atlanta Rich s Onesource date February 2009 Infobox Defunct Company company name Rich s DepartmentStores company logo Image Richs99.png fate Bankruptcy company type Department store Discount Department Store foundation 1962 defunct 1997 location Salem, Massachusetts industry Retail products Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics and housewares. homepage None Rich s , a former family owned business established in 1962, grew out of Jerry s Army Navy Surplus in Salem, Massachusetts , USA. The Rich family once operated 29 stores in Maine , New Hampshire , Vermont and Massachusetts , which offered discounted merchandise. History Rich s, founded by Jerry Rich, had employees who often stayed for long periods of time. Beverly Raymond was a Supervisor of Cashiers for almost 30 years in the Nashua store. Her manager, Lorne Swindell, managed in Nashua for over 20 years, after a short stint with JM Fields. The chain went bankrupt on March 14, 1996. ref cite web url http news.google.com newspapers?nid 3yMDF cvnR8C&dat 19961220&printsec frontpage&hl en title Department chain closing all 20 stores accessdate 2011 11 05 work Bangor Daily News date 1996 12 20 ref Nearly 2,000 workers at the company s 26 stores in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont lost their jobs by late February 1997. See also Ames DepartmentStores Inc. Ames Ann & Hope DepartmentStores Ann & Hope Bradlees Caldor Notes reflist External links http sites.google.com site zayre88 richs Discounters from Woolworth to Wal Mart Category Companies established in 1962 Category Defunct discount stores of the United States Category Surplus stores Category Companies disestablished in 1997 US retail company stub ... more details
Image SEIBU ikebukuro.JPG thumb right The head store of Seibu DepartmentStores in Ikebukuro , Toshima, Tokyo . Nihongo The Seibu DepartmentStores, Ltd. Kabushiki gaisha Seibu Hyakkaten is a Japan ese depato department store . The first store to trade under the name opened its doors in 1949. Seibu is typical of Japanese departmentstores with a wide variety of stores doing business on several floors. The company is now a subsidiary of Seven & I Holdings Co., Ltd. . Japan The Seibu DepartmentStores flagship store is located in Ikebukuro. In Tokyo, there are also stores in Shibuya, Tokyo Shibuya and Y rakuch . There are 16 stores in the whole country, with about 5 billion dollars in annual sales. In addition to departmentstores, Seibu operates the specialty stores Loft store Loft , ja Shell garden , ja Parco and Muji . The Seiyu Group are companies of the ja .... It occupies over eight levels of upscale shopping experience with an atrium at the centre. The department store is operated by ALatief Corporation, a company which also managed a major local department store, then called Pasaraya Blok M . The two departmentstores are adjacent and a pedestrian ... & I Holdings Co., Ltd. References Reflist External links commons category Seibu DepartmentStores ja icon http www2.seibu.jp usrinfo index.html Seibu DepartmentStores ja icon http www.millennium retailing.co.jp ... Category Departmentstores of Hong Kong Category Departmentstores of Japan Category Sogo & Seibu ko ... 2008 File Seibu Jakarta.jpg thumb Seibu Department store Building in Central Jakarta , Indonesia ... is now called the East Wing of Pasaraya Grande , Indonesia s largest department store. Indonesia ... managed Sogo department store in Indonesia. The department store has its own in house tailors in addition .... Whilst the upper floor of the department store is currently under development and will be open very ... ref It was the first Japanese department store in the United States. Despite much publicity, the store ... more details
resemble departmentstores. Expand list date August 2008 Africa flag Ghana A&C Game Shoprite South Africa ... stores. Taylor s department store Taylor s Quebec department store chain. The Bay La Baie Department ... Newfoundland based department store chain. Once operated as many as 80 stores coast to coast 1859 1991 ... Discount department store, usually in the suburbs, created by S.S. Kresge sold Canadian stores to Hudson ... stores acquired by The Bay . Laroque s Department Store 169 177 Rideau Street, Ottawa, Ontario. Catering ... chain 1916 1991 . Marks & Spencer Canadian stores closed 1999 Met Mart Short lived department store ..., operated 1911 to 1916. The Right House Higher end departmentstores, last store closed in the 1990s ..., acquired by Hudson s Bay Company in 1990s. Royal Stores Newfoundland department store chain 1895 ... stores, various locations from Sarnia to Kingston, co founded 1961 ref cite web title Sentry Department ... 1995 never related to American company. Towers DepartmentStores Towers DepartmentStores BoniMart Sold to Zellers in 1990. Walker Department Store Galt, Ontario. Wise Stores Similar to Hart Stores. Wizmart Discount liquidation store created by Wise Stores Wood Brothers department store Wood Brothers Halifax department store chain. Woodward s Western Canada, defunct 1993. most stores converted to Zellers ... mid 2013 Kohl s DTB Defunct Almacenes Velasco Bargain Town Gonzalez Padin La New York DepartmentStores flag United States main List of departmentstores of the United States List of defunct retailers ... Stores Jiuguang Department Store Pacific Sogo Parkson Shin Kong Place http www.shinkong place.com ... New World Development Seibu DepartmentStores Sincere Sogo Wing On Defunct Daimaru closed 1998 Dragon ... Department Store Jakarta 3 stores , Bali, Yogyakarta Debenhams Jakarta Daiso Jakarta 6 stores Bandung Galeri Keris Jakarta 3 stores Java Department Store Jakarta 3 stores , Makassar, Palembang JM Department Store Palembang 4 stores Marks & Spencer Jakarta 8 stores , Bandung, Surabaya, Bali 2 stores ... more details
nihongo Daimaru Matsuzakaya DepartmentStores Co. Ltd. Kabushiki Kaisha Daimaru Matsuzakaya Hyakkaten is the company that operates the Daimaru and Matsuzakaya department store chain. Headquartered in Koto, Tokyo Koto , Tokyo , ref http www.daimaru matsuzakaya.com outline.html . Daimaru Matsuzakaya DepartmentStores. Retrieved on December 15, 2010. 18 11 . ref Daimaru Matsuzakaya is owned by J. Front Retailing . References reflist External links Portalbox Tokyo Companies http www.daimaru matsuzakaya.com Daimaru Matsuzakaya DepartmentStores ja icon Category Companies based in Tokyo Category Koto, Tokyo retail company stub ja ... more details
notability Companies date August 2009 unreferenced date August 2009 Infobox Company company name Gazzaz company logo Image gazzaz logo.jpg company type Private genre Department Store foundation 1942 founder Hussein Bakry Gazzaz location Balad br Jeddah , Saudi Arabia industry Retail products Prestigious & luxury goods and Leading Brands in Fragrance and Cosmetics, Fashion Accessories Luggage & Leather goods subsid owner Hussein Bakry Gazzaz image hussein gazzaz.jpg num employees 1000 COO Garth Rhoode caption Gazzaz Building Downtown Gazzaz is a luxury department store based in Jeddah and with stores in locations throughout the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia . One of its stores is located on Tahlia road Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The Gazzaz stores sell perfumes, make up, jewellery and accessories such as bags and shoes. They also have a section for home furniture, luxury lingerie, hair and body products. The stores are usually 4 5 floors and each floor contains a specific section. The architectural design as well as the interior of the shops are inspired by Paris. Category Companies of Saudi Arabia Category Department stores ... more details
Refimprove date February 2011 Infobox Defunct Company company name Ames DepartmentStores, Inc. company logo File Ames DepartmentStores logo.svg type Department store , br Private company Private fate ... facilities that provided standardized planning and marketing. Many Ames stores from the 1980s were the department ... s old red logo. A former King s DepartmentStores King s Department Store , this remained vacant .... In 1984 Ames acquired the King s DepartmentStores chain and added most of its 193 stores to the fold ... when that chain went out of business in late 1995 ref cite news title Ames DepartmentStores Inc. url http articles.courant.com 1996 06 02 business 9605300470 1 ames departmentstores joseph r ettore ... of Hills DepartmentStores in 1998, Ames became the nation s fourth largest discount retail ... s departmentstores. ref http www.findarticles.com p articles mi m3092 is 4 39 ai 59649466 Ames ... Joseph R. Ettore, who had presided over the bankruptcy and liquidation of Stuart s DepartmentStores ... generally believe that debt related to the acquisition of Hills DepartmentStores , at the same .... 1995 2002 See also Zayre Hills DepartmentStores References reflist External links http www.amesfanclub.com ... 11 bankruptcy Category Defunct departmentstores of the United States Category Rocky Hill, Connecticut ... with a store in Southbridge, Massachusetts , and at its peak operated 700 stores in 20 states, including ... expanding into other markets and taking over many closed stores that had been abandoned by competitors ... stores built in the late 1970s. The store closed in 2002 and is still vacant as of March 2011. Ames ... in the Ames Worsted Textile Co. mill. The name of the Ames Department Store was due to simply reusing ... store building program through the late 1980s. Many of the first stores were converted industrial ... of its larger stores to the Ames banner the remaining stores would be sold to McCrory Stores in 1989 ... with increased debt and hampered by the additional cost of converting those stores to Ames stores, the company ... more details
Canteen StoresDepartment, Bangladesh CSD is a military owned retail chain store in Bangladesh . ref name csd news cite news title Bangladesh holds potato fair to popularize it as staple food url http english.peopledaily.com.cn 90001 90777 90851 6406230.html accessdate 5 September 2011 newspaper People s Daily Online date 7 May 2008 ref ref name csd Owned and run by the Bangladesh Army , ref name csd cite web title CSD Bangladesh url http csdbangladesh.com web publisher CSD Bangladesh accessdate 5 September 2011 ref it provides a variety of food, electronics and other consumer goods. ref name csd Army personnel are entitled to special discounts at all CSD outlets. The popular local fast food chain Captain s World is also owned and run by the CSD. ref name csd See also Canteen StoresDepartment India Canteen StoresDepartment Pakistan References reflist Military of Bangladesh military stub Category Companies of Bangladesh ... more details
Orphan date April 2011 one source date March 2011 Edgar DepartmentStores was a chain of department store s that was founded in Massachusetts . James Edgar, an immigrant from Edinburgh , Scotland , opened the first Edgar s in Brockton , Massachusetts. ref name marl In December 1890, James Edgar dressed up as Santa Claus to entertain the children of shoppers, thus becoming the first department store Santa. ref name marl cite book last Marling first Karal Ann title Merry Christmas celebrating America s greatest holiday publisher Harvard University Press year 2000 page 202 url http books.google.co.uk books?id EUc13 ourtYC&pg PA202&dq Edgar DepartmentStores james edgar&client firefox a isbn 0674003187 ref Trains brought families from Boston and Providence to Edgar s to see Santa. However, the corporation filed for bankruptcy and closed its doors in 1986, soon after the chain was purchased by the Bradlees corporation. The Edgar chain also owned Almy s department store. ref name marl References Reflist Category Defunct departmentstores of the United States Category Defunct companies based in Massachusetts US retail company stub ... more details
discount stores Ames defunct 1999 company name Hills DepartmentStores company logo Image Hills ... Ames DepartmentStores products Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics, toys, and housewares. Hills Department Store was a Canton, Massachusetts , based discount department store chain. It was founded in 1957 in Youngstown, Ohio , and existed until 1999 when it was acquired by Ames DepartmentStores Inc. Ames . Most stores were located in Ohio, Indiana, New .... It pushed further south and had several stores in Virginia, Tennessee, and Alabama and west into Michigan. History Beginning In the late 1950s, Hills stores were full fledged departmentstores as opposed to the discount departmentstores the chain later became known for . http www.nytimes.com ... a power aisle with pallet presentations of good values. In December 1998, Ames DepartmentStores ... of these locations had previously been Twin Fair, Inc. , stores prior to 1982. Hills had its own private ... dsvRx.aTm.htm SEC Info Hills Stores Co DE 10 K405 For 1 28 95 Bot generated title ref Bankruptcy & Recovery Image Hills department store sign.jpg right 200px thumb Hills Department Store Sign ... States bankruptcy protection in February 1991, and the number of stores declined, from 214 to 151. Hills ... public. The situation was further aggravated in 1989 when Hills acquired 33 former Gold Circle stores ... topic hills stores company?cat biz fin Hills Stores Company Information and Much More from Answers.com Bot generated title ref Stores were remodeled, scheduled opening of distribution centers ... a notable recovery from bankruptcy in 1993 as Hills Stores Company. Takeover & The Ames Acquisition ... resigned his post Feb. 8, 1996, replaced as chairman by Chaim Edelstein, a former chairman of A&S DepartmentStores. Dickstein s resignation as chairman was joined by that of Jack Smailes, president and CEO ... Stores. The 164 unit discounter then announced it would seek to acquire other regional discounters ... more details
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