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Flemings was a chain of discount supermarkets in Sydney, Australia and surrounding areas. The first Flemings stores were opened in 1930 by Jim Fleming Sr. and George Fleming. They initially traded under the name "E.L. Lakin". Following World War II, the name changed to "Fleming's Fabulous Food Stores" and there were 100 stores. [1]
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
Fleming Companies, Inc. was founded as Lux Mercantile in Topeka, Kansas, in 1915 by O. A. Fleming, Gene Wilson and Samuel Lux. [1] In 1921 the company's name was changed to Fleming-Wilson, and in 1941, the company name was changed again to The Fleming Company. Ned Fleming, son of O.A., was named president, chairman, and CEO. [2]
Below is a list of notable defunct retailers of the United States.. Across the United States, a large number of local stores and store chains that started between the 1920s and 1950s have become defunct since the late 1960s, when many chains were either consolidated or liquidated.
Bloomin’ Brands revealed in an earnings call Friday that it closed 41 “underperforming locations” across the brands it owns, including Carrabba’s Italian Grill, Bonefish Grill and Fleming’s.
The company sold all of their metro area stores to (now defunct) Fleming, which re-branded them as Rainbow Foods. All Rainbow stores were closed when Fleming went out of business. In 2012, a new format Super 1 Foods store was built in Carencro, LA., with a floorplan and decor package that would be rolled out to all other stores.
S. H. Kress & Co. was the trading name of a chain of five and dime retail department stores in the United States established by Samuel Henry Kress. It operated from 1896 to 1981. In the first half of the 20th century, there were Kress stores with ornamented architecture in hundreds of cities and towns.
In the late 1950s, Hills stores were full-fledged department stores (as opposed to the discount department stores for which the chain later became known). Herbert H. Goldberger, [2] the founder of Hills, sold the chain to SCOA Industries, (Shoe Company of America), of Columbus, Ohio, in 1964. He remained as president of Hills until 1981, when ...