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In 1908, Sears issued its first specialty catalog for houses, Book of Modern Homes and Building Plans, featuring 44 house styles ranging in price from US $360 (equal to $12,208 today) – $2,890 (equal to $98,003 today). The first mail order for a Sears house was filled that year.
Surplus Record is a business directory of surplus, new, and used machine tools, machinery, and industrial equipment in the United States. It was founded in 1924 by Thomas P. Scanlan. The monthly directory, which is hundreds of pages long, has been referred to as "the bible of the used and surplus capital equipment industry". [1]
Building Materials and Construction Solutions (BMC) is an American construction supply company with corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina. The company operates principally in the South and West regions of the United States and has in excess of 9,000 employees. In 2021, the company merged with Builders FirstSource in an all-stock ...
Builders FirstSource, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company [1] [2] that is a manufacturer and supplier of building materials. [3] The company is headquartered in Irving, Texas, and is the largest supplier of building products, prefabricated components and value-added services in the US. Builders FirstSource employs over 15,000 people throughout the ...
The Meskers marketed their products through catalogs displaying their designs. The catalogs were so successful they expanded print runs from 50,000 to 500,000 one year later. [ 5 ] According to a 1915 catalog, there were Mesker storefronts in every state, including 4,130 in Indiana, 2,915 in Illinois, 2,646 in Kentucky, and even 17 in the ...
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Luria's – originally L. Luria & Son, was a chain of catalog showroom stores in Florida, from 1961 to 1997. Service Merchandise – closed all its retail stores by early 2002; the name was resurrected in 2004 for an online retail operation [41] [42] Witmark – operated in southwestern Michigan; founded 1969, liquidated 1997 [43] [44]