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Polaris Fashion Place is a two level shopping mall and surrounding retail plaza serving Columbus, Ohio, United States.The mall, owned locally by Washington Prime Group, is located off Interstate 71 on Polaris Parkway in Delaware County just to the north of the boundary between Delaware and Franklin County.
Ackermans is a South African chain of clothing retail stores. Founded in 1916 in Wynberg, Cape Town, Ackermans has over 700 stores across Southern Africa, including in Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, eSwatini and Zambia, [3] and is headquartered in Kuilsrivier near Cape Town. In 2015 Ackermans was rated the second best clothing store by the South ...
Eastland Mall is a defunct shopping mall in Columbus, Ohio.The mall opened February 14, 1968 and closed on December 27, 2022. [2] There are 4 vacant anchor stores that were once Lazarus, JCPenney, Sears, and Macy's (built as Kaufmann's).
Lazarus developed or was an early adopter of many shopping innovations such as "one low price" (no bargaining necessary, earlier implemented by the John Wanamaker Store [3]), first department store escalators in the country, first air-conditioned store in the country, and Fred Lazarus Jr. successfully lobbied President Franklin Roosevelt to ...
He was born in Cape Town in 1931, the son of the Ackerman’s clothing group founder, Gus Ackerman, and was educated at Bishops Diocesan College. [2] After graduating from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Commerce, he joined the Greatermans group in the Ackermans division in 1951 at the age of 20 as a trainee manager.
Schottenstein Stores Corp., based in Columbus, Ohio, is a holding company for various ventures of the Schottenstein family. Jay Schottenstein and his sons Joey Schottenstein , Jonathan Schottenstein , and Jeffrey Schottenstein are the primary holders in the company.
Bella Cabakoff was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and moved to Columbus, Ohio as a toddler. [4] At 21, she became the youngest buyer for the Lazarus department store chain. In 1951, after spending over 20 years with Lazarus, she and her husband Harry Wexner opened a women's clothing store named Leslie's (after their son) on State Street.
In August 2023, Express announced that they would be laying off 150 workers in effort to achieve $150 million in annualized expense reductions by the end of 2025. [10] On October 24, 2023, Express warned that it may have to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it has been hit hard from the COVID-19 pandemic, stating store sales have been declining for years and rising costs putting the ...