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Younkers Inc. (/ ˈ j ɒ ŋ k ər z /) [2] is an American online retailer and former department store chain founded as a family-run dry goods business in 1856 in Keokuk, Iowa. The retailer had evolved over more than 150 years to include a presence in locations throughout Iowa and bordering states in the Midwest region of the United States.
The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. Announces June Closing of Its Younkers Muskegon, Michigan Furniture Gallery YORK, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. (Nasdaq: BONT) today announced it will ...
The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. Announces July Closing of Its Wisconsin Rapids, WI Younkers Location YORK, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. (Nasdaq: BONT) today announced it will close its ...
Younkers closed their downtown Des Moines location on August 12, 2005. Part of the building was destroyed in a fire during the early morning hours of March 29, 2014, that caused the upper floors of the building to collapse. At the time of the fire, the building was undergoing renovation into 120 apartments and retail space. [3]
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
In 1931, Max's son, Max Samuel (M.S.), joined the company. When Max the elder died in 1933, his widow, Daisy, and their two sons, M.S. and Richard, continued the business, forming a partnership in 1936. The Bon-Ton was a popular store destination on the classic radio show Fibber McGee and Molly, [3] which aired from 1935 to 1959.
The chain's stores spanned 23 states and included familiar names like Bon-Ton, Bergner's, Boston, Carson's, Elder-Beerman, Herberger's, and Younkers. LPETTET/istockphoto Teavana
H. Carl Prange's goal in 1930 during the stock market crash was to do one million dollars in the grocery business and two million in dry-goods. During the Depression, while still heavily in debt from the purchase of the Hall Dry Goods building in Green Bay, Prange acquired the LM Washburn company of Sturgeon Bay and opened the firm's third store.