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The JCPenney mother store in Kemmerer, Wyoming. In 1898, Penney began working for a small chain of stores in the Western United States, called the Golden Rule stores.In 1902, owners Guy Johnson and Thomas Callahan, impressed by his work ethic and salesmanship, offered him a one-third partnership in a new store he would open.
In November, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas approved a purchase agreement in which substantially all of J.C. Penney’s retail and operating assets would be acquired ...
Exterior of the JCPenney store at the Stonebriar Centre in Frisco, Texas (2013) JCPenney headquarters in Plano, Texas (2014) In 2010, Vornado Realty Trust acquired a 9.9% stake in JCPenney but sold it in 2013 for $13.00 per share. [37] On January 24, 2011, JCPenney shut down its catalog business and 19 outlet stores. [38]
The long struggling department store JCPenney filed for bankruptcy on Friday, becoming the third major retailer following J.Crew and Neiman Marcus to restructure its debt as the coronavirus ...
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]
Unlike those other aforementioned businesses, retail was in an apocalypse before the pandemic.
In 2017 alone, more than 12,000 physical stores closed. The reasons included debt and bankruptcy in the face of rising costs, leveraged buyouts, low quarterly profits outside holiday binge spending, delayed effects of the Great Recession, [3] and changes in spending habits.
The 118-year-old department store JCPenney is the latest to file for bankruptcy protection amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Texas based retailer has accrued nearly $4 billion in debt and will ...