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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.
Best Products – filed for bankruptcy for the second time in September 1996 [33] [34] and closed all of its stores by the following February [35] [36] Brendle's – became bankrupt and liquidated in 1996 [37] [38] Consumers Distributing – sought bankruptcy protection in 1996; Ellman's – acquired by Service Merchandise in 1985 [39] [40]
Incredible Universe was created with the intention to compete with rapidly growing electronics superstores like Circuit City, Best Buy, and CompUSA that were taking market share from Radio Shack. The company hoped that customers would drive up to 40 miles to a store, allowing one location to serve an area with as few as one million people, with ...
Several fire crews worked to put out a large warehouse fire in Sacramento Friday night, authorities said. The fire happened near 1st Avenue and 5th Street south of Broadway, the Sacramento Fire ...
Sacramento art dealer Pamela Skinner stands Wednesday inside the former industrial space that she converted into living space home at 1225 D Street in Sacramento’s Mansion Flats neighborhood ...
2005 – Converted three CompUSA stores and 13 Good Guys stores into megastores. Closed all 46 Good Guys locations. Began marketing in California and Hawaii as "CompUSA with Good Guys Inside" in response to Best Buy's marketing campaign "with Magnolia Inside". 2005 – CompUSA started a customer loyalty program called The CompUSA Network.
Around 2000, Ted Ross and Eric Jensen transformed the historic Jewel Tea Co. warehouse in midtown Sacramento into an elegant loft-inspired home that unfolds across nearly 5,000 square feet of ...
Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota.Originally founded by Richard M. Schulze and James Wheeler in 1966 as an audio specialty store called Sound of Music, it was rebranded under its current name with an emphasis on consumer electronics in 1983.