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  1. Gee Bee Department Stores

    nofootnotes date October 2008 Gee Bee Department Stores 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 1950s with the opening of the suburban Gee Bee stores. Most of the stores, including the original, which retained the full Glosser name, remained open into the late 1980s. The Franklin Building was redeveloped in the mid 1990s. The Gee Bee locations were sold off over the years to other chain stores. The location at the Eastland Mall in North Versailles, Pennsylvania , was abandoned almost entirely and served as a flea market until 2005. The location in Washington, Pennsylvania , has gone through a few changes in ownership currently a Gabriel Brothers store but has retained the Gee Bee store design and lighting. A third suburban location existed in the University Park Center, in Richland Township, Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The store underwent a major renovation around 1990, shortly before closing and being turned into a Giant Eagle Supermarket, which it remains to this day. The exterior remains very much the same as when Gee Bee occupied the space, but the interior ..., wearing a pith safari hat. A Gee Bee Department Store was once located at the Fairlane Village Mall ... Eagle supermarket after the Gee Bee there closed. Additionally, a Gee Bee Junior clothing store ... stood. At the Richland Township location, a large yellow version of the Gee Bee logo overlooked ... City Value City Department Stores . But as of late 2008, both have closed, along with the other remaining Value City stores. Yet another store, in Center Township, Pennsylvania , closed in the 1980s. A Gee Bee store in Altoona, Pennsylvania Altoona was once an anchor store of the Park Hills Plaza ... 89tdc 03 30 89dnews 02.asp Local Gee Bee unaffected by national store closings http www.johnstown redevelopment.org ... discount stores of the United States ...   more details



  1. Gee Bee

    Gee Bee may refer to Granville Brothers Aircraft , an aircraft manufacturer Gee Bee R 1 , a racing plane built by Granville Brothers Aircraft Gee Bee Sportster , family of sports aircraft built by Granville Brothers Aircraft Gee Bee Senior Sportster Gee Bee Model Y Senior Sportster , a sports aircraft built by Granville Brothers Aircraft Gee Bee Model Z , a racing plane built by Granville Brothers Aircraft Gee Bee Department Stores Gee Bee arcade game , a 1978 arcade game by Namco Gee Bee, stage name of music video director Gerald K. Barclay GEE BEE Productions, Barclay s production company http www.geebeeproductions.com link disambig ...   more details



  1. Gee Bee (arcade game)

    refimprove date April 2011 Infobox VG title Gee Bee image Image GeeBee arcadeflyer.png U.S. arcade flyer of Gee Bee. caption U.S. arcade flyer of Gee Bee . developer Namco publisher Namco br Gremlin Industries Sega Gremlin 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 Gee Bee is Namco s very first 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 Gee Bee 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 Gee Bee NamcoBandai stub arcade stub pinball videogame stub paddle videogame stub Category 1978 video games Category Arcade games Category Breakout clones Category Namco games Category Pinball video games ja pt Gee Bee ...   more details



  1. Gee Bee Model Z

    page content for recommended layout. Infobox Aircraft Begin name Gee Bee Model Z image File Gee Bee Model Z Reproduction.jpg caption A replica of the Gee Bee Model Z Infobox Aircraft Type type Racing ... from variants with their own articles developed into Gee Bee Model R The Granville Gee Bee Model Z ..., starting the reputation of the Gee Bee aircraft as killers. Design and development Suffering from the effects ... aircraftpages geebee.htm Gee Bee 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 Gee Bee for Granville ... name Weeks Operational history First flying on August 22, 1931, the Gee Bee Z quickly proved to be tricky to fly, ref name MoF http www.museumofflight.org aircraft granville brothers gee bee z city springfield Granville Brothers Gee Bee Z City of Springfield. The Museum of Flight . Retrieved May 26 ... , the Gee Bee 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 Gee Bee Z to victory ..., who finished fourth in a Gee Bee Model Y . ref name ARH http www.airracinghistory.freeola.com aircraft GeeBee 20Z.htm Gee Bee Z. Air Racing History . Retrieved May 26, 2010. ref Following the Thompson Trophy race, the Gee Bee Z was re engined with a larger, convert 750 hp kW adj on Pratt & Whitney ... frame by frame, showed that the aircraft s fuel cap had come loose and crashed through the Gee Bee ... have shown that the Gee Bee Z was susceptible to Aeroelasticity Flutter aerodynamic flutter at high speed. ref name Weeks Legacy Film of the crash of the Gee Bee Z has become some of the most well known footage from the era of air racing. The crash also helped to establish the reputation of Gee Bee ... Bee Model R for the 1932 air race season. ref Bowers 1965 ref Two reproductions of the Gee Bee Z have ... Gee Bee Model Z Super Sportster Aircraft specs ref ref name ARH ref name HA http www.airminded.net ...   more details



  1. The Hee Bee Gee Bees

    Unreferenced date October 2010 The Hee Bee Gee Bees were a pop group formed initially to parody the Bee Gees towards the close of their sequence of high pitched, disco style hits. The band consisted of three brothers Dobbin, Garry and Norris Cribb an obvious parody of Robin Gibb Robin , Barry Gibb Barry and Maurice Gibb Maurice Gibb , performed by Angus Deayton Garry , Michael Fenton Stevens Norris , and Philip Pope Dobbin . Their big hit Meaningless Songs in Very High Voices was released by Original Records in 1980 it is regarded as one of the best produced and keenly observed musical parodies. Fact date February 2007 It reached number two in the Australia n singles chart. They did not confine themselves to Bee Gees parodies, however. They subsequently released two albums, now quite hard to find, which include parodies of Supertramp Scatological Song as Supertrash , Michael Jackson Up the Wall as Jack Michaelson , Status Quo Boring Song as Status Quid , The Police Too Depressed to Commit Suicide as The PeeCees , David Bowie Quite Ahead of My Time as David Bowwow , Gary Numan Are Trains Electric? as Gary Inhuman and others. The albums were recorded in the Strawberry Studios in Stockport , and featured 10cc and Sad Caf band Sad Caf studio musicians as their band, although neither appear on this album. The Hee Bee Gee Bees also made regular guest appearances on Radio Active radio programme Radio Active , since all three of the comedians were already cast members. Fenton Stevens was also a cast member on Spitting Image and later sang lead on their UK number one hit, The Chicken Song . Singles Meaningless Songs in Very High Voices Posing in the Moonlight 1980 2 Australia Too ... Bee Gee Bees 1981 The Hee Bee Gee Bees Present 20 Big No. 2 s 1984 External links http www.mikefs.co.uk ... Radio Active web site DEFAULTSORT Hee Bee Gee Bees, The Category English pop music groups Category Parodies Category Parody musicians sv The Hee Bee Gee Bees ...   more details



  1. Gee Bee Model R

    Other uses Gee Bee disambiguation For the 1978 arcade game , see Gee Bee arcade game . This article is a part ... for recommended layout. Infobox Aircraft Begin name Gee Bee Model R image Image Gee Bee R 1.jpg caption Reproduction of the Gee Bee R 1 at the New England Air Museum . Infobox Aircraft Type type Racing ... user more users produced number built program cost unit cost developed from Gee Bee Model Z variants with their own articles developed into The Gee Bee Model R Super Sportster also known as the GB Sportster ... Brothers Aircraft of Springfield, Massachusetts Springfield , Massachusetts . Gee Bee stands for G ... of the previous year s Thompson Trophy winning Gee Bee Model Z Model Z . It was suspected by a few ... http www.geocities.com capecanaveral lab 4515 geebeer2.html The Gee Bee R 1 and R 2 . dgraves549 aol.com, via web.archive.org. Retrieved December 22, 2010. ref Specifications Gee Bee Super Sportster ... output of the engine used in the Gee Bee R 1 as 550 horsepower, rather than the 800 hp listed above ... The 1991 film The Rocketeer film The Rocketeer opens with a test flight and crash sequence using a Gee Bee Model Z aircraft. Another Gee Bee appears, in a static sequence, at the end of the film. References Notes reflist Bibliography refbegin Benjamin, Delmar and Steve Wolf. Gee Bee . Osceola, Wisconsin MBI Publishing Co., 1993. ISBN 0 87938 820 X. Bowers, Pete M. The Gee Bee Racers, Number 51 . Leatherhead ..., Massachusetts Copy Cat Print Shop, 2000. ISBN 0 9702493 1 4. Haffke, Henry A. Gee Bee The Real ..., Inc., 1989. ISBN 0 934575 04 5. Mendenhall, Charles A. and Tom Murphy. The Gee Bee Racers A Legacy ... to the Gee Bee family of aircraft designs http www.fiddlersgreen.net AC aircraft GeeBee Racer geebee.php Free Fiddlers Green Paper Model site with a good Gee Bee history page. Model opens in pdf ... aircraft 1930 1939 Category Granville Brothers aircraft de Granville Gee Bee R 1 fr Gee Bee R 1 it Granville Gee Bee Model R Super Sportster ru Gee Bee Model R Super Sportster ...   more details



  1. Gee Bee Air Rally

    Unreferenced date July 2009 Infobox VG title Gee Bee 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 Gee Bee 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 Gee Bee Super Sportster Model Z, a flying engine which was the predecessor of the more famous, and even more extreme, Gee Bee 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 gee bee air rally name Gee Bee Air Rally ...   more details



  1. Gee Bee Senior Sportster

    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



  1. Gee Bee Sportster

    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



  1. Canteen Stores Department

    Canteen Stores Department may refer to Canteen Stores Department India Canteen Stores Department Pakistan dab Short pages monitor This long comment was added to the page to prevent it being listed on Special Shortpages. It and the accompanying monitoring template were generated via Template Longcomment. Please do not remove the monitor template without removing the comment as well. ...   more details



  1. Canteen Stores Department (Pakistan)

    Canteen Stores Department 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 Stores Department India References reflist Pakistani Armed Forces Category Military of Pakistan Category Department stores of Pakistan Pakistan mil stub ...   more details



  1. FitzGerald's Department Stores

    cleanup date April 2010 FitzGerald s Department Stores was Tasmania s largest chain of department stores. 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 and a small 600 square metre store in New Norfolk occupying a general store built in 1914 . When the Venture chain of department stores 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 department stores of Australia ...   more details



  1. King's Department Stores

    Infobox Company company name King s company logo fate Bankruptcy all locations sold to Ames successor 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 US retail stub ...   more details



  1. Seibu Department Stores

    Image SEIBU ikebukuro.JPG thumb right The head store of Seibu Department Stores in Ikebukuro , Toshima, Tokyo . Nihongo The Seibu Department Stores, 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 department stores 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 Department Stores 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 department stores, Seibu operates the specialty stores ja Loft , ja ... 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 department stores are adjacent and a pedestrian bridge connects the buildings. However, due to its ...., Ltd. External links commonscat Seibu Department store ja icon http www2.seibu.jp usrinfo index.html Seibu Department Stores ja icon http www.millennium retailing.co.jp Millennium Retailing Category Companies established in 1949 Category Companies of Japan Category Department stores of Hong Kong Category Department stores of Japan ko ja zh ... Saison group . Hong Kong Seibu stores in Hong Kong are located at Tsim Sha Tsui , Pacific Place ... , Indonesia s largest department store. Indonesia s flagship store is making a comeback and open .... It is operated by PT. Mitra Adiperkasa Tbk. which also managed Sogo department store in Indonesia. The department store has its own in house tailors in addition to an exclusive lounge made available ... Indonesia s first smart card system for a food court. Whilst the upper floor of the department store ...   more details



  1. Towers Department Stores

    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 Defunct retail companies of Canada Category Department stores of Canada ...   more details



  1. Ames Department Stores Inc.

    Refimprove date February 2011 Infobox Defunct Company company name Ames Department Stores, Inc. company ... of discount stores discount department store s based in Rocky Hill, Connecticut , USA . The company was founded in 1958 with a store in Southbridge, Massachusetts , and at its peak operated 700 stores ... that provided standardized planning and marketing. Many Ames stores from the 1980s were the department ... s old red logo. A former King s Department Stores King s location, this store remains vacant .... In 1984 Ames acquired the King s Department Stores King s chain of stores and added most of its 193 stores to the fold. In 1985 Ames acquired the G.C. Murphy chain, based in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and converted most of its larger stores to the Ames banner the remaining stores would be sold to McCrory Stores in 1989 . Three years later Ames expanded further, acquiring the 392 store Zayre chain in 1988. Saddled with increased debt and hampered by the additional cost of converting those stores ... of Hills Department Stores of Massachusetts in 1998, Ames became the nation s fourth largest discount ... all but one of the seven Goldblatt s department stores. ref http www.findarticles.com p articles mi ... acquired Hills Department Stores . Some of these closings had been anticipated back at the acquisition ... Joseph R. Ettore, who had presided over the bankruptcy and liquidation of Stuart s Department Stores ... generally believe that debt related to the acquisition of Hills Department Stores , at the same ... Ocean State Job Lot Hills Department Stores References reflist External links http www.amesfanclub.com .... The company, despite expanding into other markets and taking over many closed stores that had been ... stores built in the late 1970s. The store closed in 2002 and is still vacant as of March 2011. 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 ...   more details



  1. Gazzaz Department Stores

    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



  1. Rich's Department Stores

    For the department store chain of Atlanta Rich s Onesource date February 2009 Infobox Defunct Company company name Rich s Department Stores 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. Nearly 2,000 workers at the company s 26 stores in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont lost their jobs in late February 1997 after the chain went bankrupt on March 14, 1996. See also Ames Department Stores Inc. Ames Ann & Hope Department Stores Ann & Hope Bradlees Caldor 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 stub Rich s was founded by Morris Rich ...   more details



  1. List of department stores by country

    does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. Expand list date ... . closed Sears Canada Formerly Simpsons Sears. Stedmans V&S Discount stores. Taylor s department store ... s Horizon Discount department store operated by Eaton s, 1967 1978. Holman s Chain of stores in Prince ... Paquet 6 stores in Quebec City area. Closed June 1981. Some stores acquired by The Bay . Laroque s Department ... stores closed 1999 Met Mart Short lived department store. Closed at the same time as Greenberg ... to 1916. The Right House Higher end department stores, last store closed in the 90 s. Robinson s Canadian ... by Hudson s Bay Company in 1990s. Royal Stores Newfoundland department store chain 1895 1977 . SAAN ... department store, defunct 1970s. Sentry department store Sentry Ontario chain of retail department stores ... related to American company. Towers Department Stores Towers Department Stores BoniMart Sold out 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 ... T.J. Maxx Defunct Almacenes Velasco Bargain Town Gonzalez Padin La New York Department Stores flag United States main List of department stores of the United States List of defunct retailers of the United ... Department Stores Jiuguang Department Store Pacific Sogo Parkson Shin Kong Place Defunct Seiyu ... Group . Lane Crawford Marks & Spencer New World Development Seibu Department Stores Sincere Sogo ... 3 stores Harvey Nichols Jakarta Java Department Store Jakarta 3 stores , Makassar, Palembang JM Department Store Palembang 4 stores Marks & Spencer Jakarta 8 stores , Bandung, Surabaya, Bali 2 stores , Medan Matahari department store nationwide 84 stores Matahari New Generation Metro department ... Pasaraya Grande Jakarta 2 stores Ramayana department store Ramayana nationwide 104 stores Star Department ...   more details



  1. Edgar Department Stores

    Orphan date April 2011 one source date March 2011 Edgar Department Stores 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 Department Stores 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 department stores of the United States Category Companies based in Massachusetts US retail stub ...   more details



  1. Schocken Department Stores

    Unreferenced date January 2009 Schocken Department Stores Kaufhaus Schocken was a chain of department store s in Germany before the Second World War . Image Kaufhaus Schocken in Chemnitz.jpg thumb Schocken Shopping Centre in Chemnitz The company was found by Simon Schocken 1874 1929 and Salman Schocken 1877 1959 . After Simon had married into the owner family of Warenhaus Ury Gebr der in Leipzig , the two brothers enlarged the business to a chain by establishing a second department store in Zwickau . In 1930 the company named I. Schocken Sons since 1907 had become the fourth larges department store company in Germany with 20 stores. After the death of Simon Schoken in a car crash in 1929 his brother was sole owner. The most famous stores are the ones in Nuremberg Aufse platz built 1925 26 , Stuttgart Schocken Department Store Stuttgart 1926 28 and Chemnitz 1927 30 built by architect Erich Mendelsohn . All three can be seen as milestones in modern architecture. After the rise of Nazism Salman Schocken was politically forced to sell his department stores to the Merkur AG so called Aryanisation . After the war Schocken sold his regained share of the company 51 to Helmut Horten GmbH, which later became part of Kaufhof and is currently owned by Metro AG Metro . Salman Schocken founded his own publishing house later Schocken Books in 1931, which later moved to Palestine and the United States . The Schocken family lives in Israel and the U.S. . Schocken Books is now affiliated with Random House Publishing . The family still owns 75 of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz owned by Salman Schocken. German Kaufhaus Schocken 3 September 2006 Category Department stores of Germany Germany company stub Retail stub de Kaufhaus Schocken he ...   more details



  1. Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores

    nihongo Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores 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 Department Stores. 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 Department Stores ja icon Category Companies based in Tokyo retail stub ja ...   more details



  1. Hills Department Stores

    discount stores Ames defunct 1999 company name Hills Department Stores company logo Image Hills ... Ames Department Stores products Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics and housewares. Hills Department Store was a Canton, Massachusetts , based discount department ... by Ames Department Stores Inc. Ames . Most stores were located in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky ... several stores in Tennessee, Alabama and in the West Michigan area through the late 1980s. History Beginning In the late 1950s, Hills stores were full fledged department stores as opposed to the discount department stores the chain later became known for . http www.nytimes.com 1987 12 20 obituaries ... Department Stores. Dickstein s resignation as chairman was joined by that of Jack Smailes, president ... Fair, Inc. , stores prior to 1982. Hills had its own private label under which various goods were marketed. It was called American Spirit . ref http www.secinfo.com 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 Hills filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in the United States bankruptcy protection in February 1991, and the number of stores declined, from 214 ... Circle stores. A difficult economy followed by a recession in 1990 1991 dealt the chain a crushing blow ... www.answers.com 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 ... achieved a notable recovery from bankruptcy in 1993 as Hills Stores Company. Takeover & The Ames ... Drug Stores. The 164 unit discounter then announced it would seek to acquire other regional discounters ... to create a power aisle with pallet presentations of good values. In November 1998, Ames Department Stores Inc. Ames acquired Hills. At that time Hills was operating 155 stores, covering 12 states, and employing ...   more details



  1. Department stores in Japan

    kimono shop department stores dominated the market in its earlier history. They sold, or rather displayed .... Gift certificates for prestigious department stores are frequently given as formal presents in Japan. Department stores in Japan generally offer a wide range of services and can include Foreign .... Due to their roots, many Japanese department stores have sections devoted to kimono and Japanese ... a weekday. Famous department stores in Japan Some stores also have branches outside Japan. Nationwide nihongo Daimaru nihongo Hankyu Department Stores Hanky Hyakkaten nihongo Isetan nihongo Matsuzakaya nihongo Mitsukoshi nihongo Seibu Department Stores Seibu Hyakkaten ... See also Commonscat Department stores in Japan Category Department stores of Japan Category ... thumb An 1856 ukiyo e depicting Echigoya , the current Mitsukoshi . Department store s in Japan .... History The first modern style department store in Japan was Mitsukoshi , founded in 1904, which ... has an even longer history, dated from 1611. The kimono store changed to a department store ... department store is from railway companies. There have been many private railway operators in the nation and, from the 1920s, they started to build department stores directly linked to their lines Train station Terminus termini . Seibu Department Stores Seibu and Hankyu Department Stores Hankyu are the typical examples of this type. Characteristics Since the 1980s Japanese department stores have been facing fierce competition from supermarket s and convenience store s, gradually losing ... region nihongo Keio Department Store Kei Hyakkaten nihongo Marui fashion oriented nihongo ... Department Store Odaky Hyakkaten nihongo Printemps Ginza Purantan Ginza from France nihongo Tobu Department Store T bu Hyakkaten nihongo Tokyu Department Store T ky Hyakkaten 109 department store 109 Ichi maru ky fashion oriented, Kant region nihongo Tokyu Hands ...   more details



  1. Stuarts Department Stores

    Refimprove date December 2009 Infobox Company company name Stuarts Department Stores, Inc. company logo Image Stuarts logo.jpg company type Discount store foundation 1957 location New York City, New York industry Retail stock STUS NASDAQ products Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics, and housewares. homepage None Stuarts Department Stores Inc. was founded in New England in 1957. It incorporated as a Delaware corporation in 1983, around which time the regional clothing and houseware retailer had stores in every state in New England with a primary focus on Massachusetts . Its stock once traded for close to 30 a share. History Through the 1980s and 1990s the store went through a variety of major changes. First the chain tried to shed its image as a reseller of leftover department store merchandise by investing in their own label. They also invested a major amount of capital into a cosmetic overhaul of their real estate that introduced a more Bradlees like color scheme. They rapidly expanded to 26 outlets, including the purchase of Harry s of Barre city , Vermont Barre, Vermont . A major distribution and office complex was also built in Franklin, Massachusetts . During all of this change there was instability in corporate management. The chaos this caused resulted in a missed opportunity for this small retailer. They never modernized their sales inventory tracking systems at the store level. While other chains like Rich s Department Stores were already using barcode scanners, computerized shipping manifests, and automated sales result reports, Stuarts was still doing it by hand. By the early 1990s shares struggled to maintain 1 per share The company filed for Chapter 11 protection in December 1990, emerged from the chapter 11 case in October 1992 and re filed for protection under chapter 11 in May 1995. Presidents CEOs 1989 Joseph Ettore ... Defunct discount stores of the United States ...   more details




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