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Delia's – founded in 1993 as a juniors' clothing catalog, Delia's (stylized as dELiA*s) expanded to more than 100 physical locations before cheaper competitors sent it to bankruptcy in 2014. [56] It was reopened in 2015 as an online retailer, but this was unsuccessful and has been licensed by online fashion company Dolls Kill since 2018.
Red Envelope Entertainment LLC (originally Netflix First) was a film production and distribution unit created by Netflix in 2006. [2] The studio produced independent content for the company's DVD-by-mail service. [3] The company produced and/or distributed over 100 films, before ultimately being closed in 2008. [4]
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 ...
Netflix's red DVD envelopes will be no more.The company said Tuesday that it is ending its 25-year DVD rental business, noting that it plans to ship its final discs on Sept. 29. “Our goal has ...
Gamble-Skogmo Inc. was an American conglomerate of retail chains and other businesses that was headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.Business operated or franchised by Gamble-Skogmo included Gambles hardware and auto supply stores, Woman's World and Mode O'Day clothing stores, J.M. McDonald department stores, Leath Furniture stores, Tempo and Buckeye Mart Discount Stores, Howard's ...
Carvel sold the company in 1989 to an investment bank. By the time he died a year later at age 84, news accounts said Carvel Corp. was the nation's third-largest ice cream store, behind only Dairy ...
A Norm Thompson's catalog was named the 1990 Catalog of the Year by the National Direct Mail Marketing Association. [11] Sales grew to around $70 million in 1991. [ 11 ] A downtown Portland retail store was added in May 1993 across from the Pioneer Place shopping center on Fourth Avenue at a cost of $1 million.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Service Merchandise was a leading catalog-showroom retailer. At its peak, the company achieved more than $4 billion in annual sales. As the company expanded, it began to open showrooms nationwide, mostly in the vicinity of major shopping malls, which were in vogue in the 1970s.