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Target Corporation is an American retail ... can be found in the Target House complex in Memphis, Tennessee, ... in 1962, the year the first Target ...
Target's original bullseye logo, used from 1962 until 1968 [1]. The history of Target Corporation first began in 1902 by George Dayton.The company was originally named Goodfellow Dry Goods in June 1902 before being renamed the Dayton's Dry Goods Company in 1903 and later the Dayton Company in 1910.
After leaving the military, he moved to Minneapolis, where he began his retail career working for Dayton's. [1] [3] [7] In 1962, he and Douglas Dayton founded and launched the Target Stores for the Dayton Company, [8] now known as Target Corporation.
In 1962 the Daytons began the Target discount store chain. George Nelson Dayton was great-grandfather to Mark Dayton, former U.S. Senator and Governor of Minnesota. George Draper Dayton died of cancer in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 18, 1938, at the age of 80. He was buried at Minneapolis' Lakewood Cemetery.
Dayton-Hudson Corporation announced in January 2000 a name change to Target Corporation. [114] Acknowledging that Target stores made up 80% of its revenue and that the Target name was better known nationally, Dayton-Hudson believed Target was the name, and direction, of the corporation's future.
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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 ...