Macy's
Macy's (formerly R. H. Macy & Co.) is a department store chain founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. Macy's became a division of the Cincinnati, OH based Federated Department Stores on December 1994, following a Chapter 11 filing in January 1992.[1]
Acquisitions Pre-Federated: 1924-1988[edit | edit source]
- Bullocks (Los Angeles, 1988) - Acquired from Federated Department Stores. Renamed Macy's in 1996
- Bullocks Wilshire - Acquired from Federated Department Stores. Renamed I. Magnin in 1989
- I. Magnin - Acquired from Federated Department Stores. All stores closed in 1994 as part of the buyout by Federated Department Stores)
- Lasalle & Koch (Toledo, 1924) - Retained the Lasalle's name until 1981, sold to Elder-Beerman of Dayton, OH in 1986.[2]
- Davison-Paxon-Stokes (Atlanta, 1929) - Renamed Macy's in 1986
- L. Bamberger & Co. (Newark, 1929) - Renamed Macy's New Jersey in 1986[3]
- O'Connor Moffatt & Company (San Francisco, 1945) - Renamed Macy's San Francisco in 1947, later becoming Macy's California.[4][2]
- John Taylor Dry Goods Co. (Kansas City, 1947) - Renamed Macy's Missouri-Kansas in 1949, sold to Dillard's in 1986
- Christman's (Joplin, 1954) - Renamed Macy's in 1954, closed 1976.
- Innes (Wichita,1956) - Acquired from Younker Brothers of Des Moines, IA. Renamed Macy's in 1956, sold to Dillard's in 1986
Conversions post-Federated acquisition[edit | edit source]
- Famous-Barr
- Foley's
- Hecht's
- The Jones Store
- Kaufmann's
- Lazarus
- L.S. Ayre's
- Marshall Field's
- Rich's
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/07/15/macys-plans-merger-with-federated/6059c11a-2dcb-4f4e-b819-3ab374150057/
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://web.archive.org/web/20110205221056/http://macysinc.com/aboutus/history/macysahistory.aspx?Print
- ↑ https://www.northjersey.com/story/money/shopping/2016/11/23/bambergers-stores-gone-but-impact-lives/94244040/
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1945/07/06/archives/macy-gets-store-in-san-francisco-arranges-to-acquire-oconnor.html