Dayton Hudson, an American department-store chain, discovered that 2.5% of its customers bought 75% of its goods.
Indeed, Target sold both Marshall Field's, its own department-store chain, and Mervyn's, a middle-market store chain, earlier this year.
Sears plunged 14 percent after the department-store chain reported a steep quarterly loss and slumping sales after the market closed Thursday.
Penney slid 3.59, or 17%, to 17.57, after the department-store chain late Wednesday reported a wider-than-expected fourth-quarter loss and revenue that fell short of expectations.
Joel Kotkin, of Pepperdine University, points out that today not a single major bank, department-store chain or telecoms company calls the nation's second-largest city its home.
Before Holbrooke was sworn in, Helms asked the White House to appoint an alternate U.N. delegate: Irwin Belk, a feisty North Carolina buddy who heads a department-store chain.
Its bigger rival, Metro, where Mr Urban worked for 25 years, also has a troubled German department-store chain, Kaufhof, but it has been partly redeemed by its substantial cash-and-carry business, which operates in 23 countries.
The mid-priced department store chain reported another much larger-than-expected loss in the fiscal fourth quarter on a nearly 30 percent plunge in revenue in the latest sign that shoppers aren't happy with the changes it's made in the past year.
How can a somewhat dowdy mid-tier department store chain be put in the same class as Nordstrom and Apple?
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The brothers got their first break in 1985 when Emporium Holdings, a Chinese-owned department store chain, went into receivership.
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A. from Vanderbilt University, Martin invested in real estate on the side and in 1984 bought Proffitt's, a family-owned four-store department store chain in southeastern Tennessee.
Starting this week, the 110-year-old department store chain will bring back some of the sales that it swore off last year, the Associated Press reports.
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On November 24th, a few days after the Japanese-owned Yaohan department store chain in Hong Kong went bust, word hit the streets that the St Honore Cake Shop chain was about to follow suit.
EUROPE'S biggest department store and mail-order chain, Germany's KarstadtQuelle, has announced a drastic restructuring, which may involve the sale or closure of 77 smaller stores and the disposal of other outlets specialising in clothing and sports equipment.
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The past month has seen several failures of High Street brands, including furniture chain Habitat, department store TJ Hughes, fashion chain Jane Norman and Moben-owner Homeform.
Sears Holdings recorded a second-quarter loss due to sagging sales and store closings, and the department store chain slumped 11.9% in early trading.
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We are positive on President Chain Store, Far Eastern Department Store and the steel and cement sectors - anything that is a play on the domestic economy.
It said its up-market range was protected from a sales squeeze suffered by Britain's biggest department store chain Marks and Spencer.
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