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The JCPenney mother store in Kemmerer, Wyoming. In 1898, Penney began working for a small chain of stores in the Western United States, called the Golden Rule stores.In 1902, owners Guy Johnson and Thomas Callahan, impressed by his work ethic and salesmanship, offered him a one-third partnership in a new store he would open.
In early 2001, JCPenney closed 44 under-performing stores. In 2001, JCPenney sold its direct-marketing insurance unit to Dutch insurer Aegon for $1.3 billion (equivalent to $2.24 billion in 2025) in cash to help refocus the company on retail. [30] In 2003, the company opened three stores in strip centers in Texas, Minnesota, and Indiana.
The brand had 150 stores at its peak, predominantly on the West Coast. Anchor Blue declared bankruptcy in 2009 and shuttered more than 50 stores, and gradually shrank to include stores solely in California. It went bankrupt once more in 2011, with the remaining stores closed before Easter of that year. [48]
In November, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas approved a purchase agreement in which substantially all of J.C. Penney’s retail and operating assets would be acquired ...
Why JCPenney is reinvesting a billion dollars into its business. JCPenney’s CEO on what it takes to bring an iconic American brand ‘back to relevance’ Skip to main content
JCPenney announced it's closing stores and winding down its catalog operations, a legacy business that seems outdated in today's landscape of online and mobile shopping. In all, 26 stores will ...
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 ...
The retailer said it plans to close additional stores through bankruptcy. Based in Plano, Texas, the retailer was founded more than a century ago as one of the country’s first department stores.