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The name "Target" originated from Dayton's publicity director, Stewart K. Widdess, and was intended to prevent consumers from associating the new discount store chain with the department store. Douglas Dayton served as the first president of Target. The new subsidiary ended its first year with four units, all in Minnesota.
Target Corporation is an American retail corporation that operates a chain of discount department stores and hypermarkets, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.It is the seventh-largest retailer in the United States, and a component of the S&P 500 Index. [3]
EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval) is an internal database system operated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that performs automated collection, validation, indexing, and accepted forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the SEC.
By 1975, Target was the company's top revenue producer and by the end of the 1970s annual sales exceeded $1 billion. [1] In 2000, the parent company took the Target name from its stores. [ 5 ] At the time of Dayton's death, the company he once led was the 36th largest company in the United States.
Boots & Barkley, a pet food and supply line; Embark, an outdoor gear line of camping and travel equipment; Room Essentials, a low-end home-goods line; Brightroom, a line of storage solutions [18]
The machines printed a series of ticker symbols (usually shortened forms of a company's name), followed by brief information about the price of that company's stock; the thin strip of paper on which they were printed was called ticker tape. The word ticker comes from the distinct tapping (or ticking) noise the machines made while printing ...
The result was a classic, two-volume work that transformed the writing of business history in the UK from a public relations exercise into a reputable branch of scholarship. Wilson's work, about one of western Europe's most important companies, made him the father of modern corporate histories in the UK.
In 1918, the company built a hydroelectric dam at Stevens Point, adding paper machines in 1919. [5] With the acquisition of the Newaygo Timber Company in 1920, Consolidated expanded its timber holdings from Wisconsin and Minnesota to Ontario. [5] In 1922, the company purchased a pulp and paper mill in Port Arthur, Ontario.