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At least one source reported in November 2019 that Transformco would have a total of 182 full Sears and Kmart stores remaining after the 96 announced stores were closed by February 2020. [ 28 ] In December 2019, Transformco sold the DieHard brand to Advance Auto Parts for $200 million. [ 29 ]
Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores was founded in April 2012. [6] The company was a spun off from Sears Holdings in 2012. [5] [7] By May 2019, Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores & its independent dealers & franchisees operated a total of 639 stores across 49 states as well as in Puerto Rico & Bermuda. [8]
Lampert revised his offer to buy Kenmore in August 2018 for $400 million and without Sears' Home Services division. [12] On October 14, 2018, Sears' parent company Sears Holdings filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection leaving the future of the Kenmore brand undecided.
Sears Essentials – the predecessor to Sears Grand, with a similar model. The concept was discontinued in 2006 but stores retained the Sears Essentials name until 2012. Sears Optical – a chain of eyewear stores typically located in strip malls beginning in 1994. Sears Optical ceased operations in 2020. [69]
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Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears (/ s ɪər z / SEERZ), [6] is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail-order catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. [7]
Craftsman is a line of tools, lawn and garden equipment, and work wear.Originally a house brand established by Sears, the brand is now owned by Stanley Black & Decker.. As with all Sears products, Craftsman tools were not manufactured by Sears during the company's ownership, but made under contract by various other companies.
The Rival Company is an American manufacturer of small appliances that produces products under the Bionaire, Crock-Pot, Fasco, Patton, Pollenex, Rival, Simer, and White Mountain brands. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of Holmes Products Corp. in 1999, and later became a brand of Sunbeam Products , a subsidiary of Jarden Corporation , which ...