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In 1919, J.W. Longaberger began an apprenticeship with The Dresden Basket Factory. After the company failed during the Great Depression, [7] Longaberger continued to make baskets on the weekends. Eventually, he and his wife Bonnie Jean (Gist) Longaberger raised enough money to purchase the closed basket factory and start a business of their own ...
Dave W. Longaberger (1934–1999) was an American businessman who founded the now-defunct Longaberger Company, which made handcrafted maple wood baskets and accessories and became notable in the Newark, Ohio area for the "Big Basket Building" that became the company headquarters in 1997. [1]
Big Bear Stores was an American regional supermarket chain operating in the U.S. states of Ohio and West Virginia between 1933 and 2004. The company was founded in Columbus, Ohio, and was headquartered there until its acquisition by Syracuse, New York–based Penn Traffic in 1989.
It formed in 1985 and within two decades had expanded to comprise 9,000 locations that rented out VHS tapes, DVDs and video games. That all came to an end in 2013, when Blockbuster practically ...
Checked Out. Countless grocery store chains have come and gone over the years, many that were household names at one point in time. With competition from upstarts, razor thin profit margins, and ...
Why Is JCPenney Closing More Stores? JCPenney filed for bankruptcy back in 2020. Since then, about 240 of its stores have closed. Right now, there’s about 650 locations left in the U.S.
Merry-Go-Round – Merry-Go-Round had more than 500 locations during its heyday in the 1980s. It went bankrupt in 1995. [65] Mervyn's – a California-based regional department store founded in 1949. Mervyn's ill-fated expansion out of West Coast markets in the months before a recession sent the company into bankruptcy in 2008. [66] [67]
In 1991, ten side-by-side Big Bear and Harts locations were converted to the Big Bear Plus format. By 1996, all Harts stores were either closed or converted to Big Bear Plus Stores. Big Bear was bought out by Penn Traffic in April 1989, [ 1 ] and had closed all stores by early 2004.