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This is a list of defunct (mainly American) ... St. Louis and Illinois Bridge Company; St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway; St. Louis Merchants Bridge Company;
Defunct companies based in Chicago (6 C, 146 P) A. ... Pages in category "Defunct companies based in Illinois" The following 89 pages are in this category, out of 89 ...
On March 11, 2020, the company filed for bankruptcy, and announced it would close all 115 stores. At the time of the announcement, Modell's was the world's oldest sporting goods chain Olympia Sports – the company was founded in 1975, and on July 22, 2022, the company filed for bankruptcy and announced it would close all 35 stores by September ...
Topps stores were closed when parent company, Interstate Stores filed for bankruptcy in 1974 [12] Tuesday Morning (Nationwide) Two Guys (Mid-Atlantic) Value City (Nationwide) Venture Stores (National) Based out of St Louis, MO metro area. Woolco, founded by the F.W. Woolworth Company as a full-line discount department store
In 1911, he merged the two to create Famous-Barr. [2] Famous-Barr was one of many St. Louis retail companies that owned a resort along the Meramec River between the early 1900’s to 1940’s. In 1914, David May opened a new Famous-Barr department store in downtown St. Louis, the first air-conditioned department store in the country. [3]
GrandPa's or GrandPa Pidgeon's was a discount store founded in 1954 by Tom and Mildred Pidgeon, spreading across the midwest from its Bridgeton, Missouri (located in St. Louis County) origins, which remained truly "discount", when most others like Venture, Kmart and Target gradually raised prices in order to finance a more attractive layout and broader range of merchandise.
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Chicago (2 C, 35 P) Pages in category "Defunct manufacturing companies based in Illinois" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
The chain was founded in 1968 when Target founder John F. Geisse went to work for May Department Stores. [1] Under an antitrust settlement reached with the Department of Justice, May was unable to acquire any more retail chains at the time, and the department-store company needed a way to compete against the emerging discount-store chains.