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Best Products Company, Inc., or simply Best, was a chain of American catalog showroom retail stores founded by Sydney and Frances Lewis in 1957 and formerly headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. The company was in existence for four decades before closing all of their stores by February 1997 and completely liquidating by December 1998.
Consumers Distributing was plagued by the perception that items were frequently out of stock due to the catalogue shopping nature of the store. With the catalogue concept, the customer selected the item either at home while looking through the company's catalogue, or by a group of catalogues in the showroom of every store.
True & Co. 2012 US China Ultimo: 1999 ceased 2015: UK India Van de Velde N.V. 1919 Belgium China Vanity Fair: 1919 US US, Honduras Vassarette: 1958 US Vietnam Vedette Shapewear: 1983 US Unknown Victoria's Secret: 1977 US China Wacoal: 1946 Japan China What Katie Did: 1999 UK India Wolford: 1949 Austria Croatia Wonderbra: 1939 Canada Indonesia ...
Walker's - Division of Gordon Mackay & Co Ltd. Purchased by Marks & Spencers in the 1970's; Wise Stores – similar to Hart Stores; Woodward's – Western Canada; defunct 1993; most stores converted to Zellers, Walmart, and The Bay; its closure sparked a wave of major renovations and reconfigurations in malls across Canada between 1993 and the ...
1941 – The last full-size catalog was published as the U.S. enters the war years. The company goes on a hiatus through 1946 due to lack of merchandise, personnel, paper, etc. 1948 – Alfred Johnson Smith dies at age 63. 1952 – Johnson Smith Co. publishes a 96-page catalog of 2,800 of its most popular items. Company sales and circulation ...
Soft Surroundings is an American catalog chain specializing in women's clothing and bedding products. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, it currently has 44 locations nationwide, most of which are located in lifestyle centers and indoor shopping malls.
Catalog or catalogue may refer to: Cataloging. in science and technology Library catalog, a catalog of books and other media Union catalog, a combined library catalog describing the collections of a number of libraries; Calendar (archives) and Finding aid, catalogs of an archive; Astronomical catalog, a catalog of astronomical objects
International Male was a mail-order clothing brand and, at one point in the brand's history, carried brick-and-mortar stores of the same name. The company that created and owns the brand, originally Brawn of California, started in 1974–1975, has since been sold in its entirety in 1987 to Hanover Direct, based in New Jersey.