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Who are Sears and Roebuck? Confidence votes 76. Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck were the founders of the American chain of department stores, Sears, Roebuck and Company, in the late 19th century. Richard Sears learned telegraphy and got a job with the railroad, eventually becoming a station agent.
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- CEO and Founder, Amazon.com. Jeff Bezos. CEO and Founder, Amazon.com. Amazon's chief Jeff Bezos has soared to nearly the top of Forbes' billionaires ranks as his online retailer's stock has climbed, in part due to its booming cloud-computing unit, Amazon Web Services. He owns nearly 17% of Amazon.
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Sears Roebuck in the Twentieth Century: Competition, Complementarities, and the Problem of Wasting Assets 1 Sears, Roebuck in the Twentieth Century: Competition, Complementarities, and the Problem of Wasting Assets, Daniel Raff, Peter Temin. in Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries, Lamoreaux, Raff, and Temin.  Users who downloaded this paper also downloaded these: Raff and Temin. Lamoreaux, Raff, and Temin.
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- Craftsman was born in 1927 when Sears decided to create a superior brand of tools; the tools would have to meet the most rigorous set of standards to earn a place in the Craftsman line. The brand first appeared on a line of saws. In 1927, Sears hired Arthur Barrows to head the companys hardware department.
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- Hudson’s Bay CEO Gerald Storch leaving company; executive chairman assuming role Storch is a former CEO of Toys “R” Us who joined HBC in January 2015, succeeding Richard Baker as HBC’s chief executive.
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- Estée Lauder (businesswoman) Estée Lauder (/ˈɛsteɪ ˈlɔːdər/; July 1, 1906 or July 1, 1908 – April 24, 2004) was an American businesswoman. She was the co-founder, along with her husband, Joseph Lauter (later Lauder), of Estée Lauder Companies, her eponymous cosmetics company.
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- Bio. Roy Peretz is a South African pawn shop owner and reality television personality best known for starring in the History channel's original series Pawn Stars South Africa.awn Stars Bio. Roy The Boss Peretz is the shrewd, smooth business owner of the Cash Inn. He talks-the-talk and is a slick negotiator who usually gets the price he is after.
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Ray Kroc In his career as a salesman and business owner, Ray Kroc not only took advantage of opportunities others offered him, he also made some of his own. Kroc saw that brothers Richard (died 1998) and Maurice McDonald (c. 1902-1971) had created something special with their San Bernardino, California, hamburger restaurant.n 1984 Ray Kroc died of heart failure at the age of 81. He was survived by his third wife. One of America's most successful entrepreneurs, Kroc is often thrust into the pantheon of American business world that includes Henry Ford, Andrew and Dale Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan.
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Giant of the Labor Movement Dies Giant of the Labor Movement Dies AFSCME Council 5 executive director Eliot Seide (left) with his mentor David Roe, the former head of the Minnesota AFL-CIO who fought for 30 years to build this monument to workers. David Roe, a renowned Minnesota union leader, passed away Monday at age 92.
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HISTORY OF BUICK Buick was where a number of major contributors to U.S. auto history first headed an auto-building company — such as Billy Durant, GM's founder; Charles W. Nash, a founder of what later became American Motors; Walter P. Chrysler, founder of Chrysler Corp. and Harlow H. Curtice, a GM president and chief executive in the postwar era.
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Roe v. Wade Fast Facts 5 facts about Jane Roe (Norma McCorvey) This month is the forty-second anniversary of the legal decision, Roe v. Wade, in which the Supreme Court eliminated the abortion laws of all 50 states. 1. Jane Roe was the legal pseudonym for Norma McCorvey the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade. McCorvey filed court documents against Henry WADE, the district attorney of Dallas County from 1951 to 1987, who enforced a Texas law that prohibited abortion, except to save a woman's life. 2.
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How Sears Became the Worst Retailer, and Company, in America In stepped in Edward “Fast Eddie” Lampert, a financier who had already swooped up Kmart while that flailing company was mired in bankruptcy. In 2005, Kmart acquired Sears, and Lampert christened the combination of two losing retailers Sears Holdings.
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Tommy Roe Best-remembered for his hits Sheila (1962) and Dizzy (1969), Roe was widely perceived as one of the archetypal bubblegum artists of the late 1960s, but cut some pretty decent rockers along the way, especially early in his career, wrote the Allmusic journalist Bill Dahl. 1 Biography.
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- Cover of 1922 Sears Modern Homes catalog. Sears Catalog Homes (sold under the Sears Modern Homes name) were catalog and kit houses sold primarily through mail order by Sears, Roebuck and Company, an American retailer. Sears reported that more than 70,000 of these homes were sold in North America between 1908 and 1940.
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SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO. Gun Values SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO. Gun Values. SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO. SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO. Catalog merchandiser that, in addition to selling major trademark firearms, also private labeled many configurations of firearms (mostly longarms) under a variety of trademarks and logos (i.e., J.C. Higgins, Ted Williams, Ranger, etc.).
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Sam Walton Is Dead At 74; the Founder Of Wal-Mart Stores In 1962, when Ben Franklin executives in Chicago turned down his plan to open bigger stores in rural areas, with discount prices and smaller profit margins, he began to form what eventually became Wal-Mart Stores.
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- Once again, Sears has made history. For the first time, Sears has opened the doors to its vast archival collection and invited the public to peek inside. More than 100 years of history now available online. Sears has a rich, long history to tell dating back to 1886 when Richard Sears sold the first batch of watches. The milestones, introductions and stories fill volumes.
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- Sears hired Roebuck in 1887, moved his company to Chicago, and in 1893 the corporate name of the … firm became Sears, Roebuck and Co. At that time, all sales were done by mail-order from a catalog.
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How Sears Became the Worst Retailer, and Company, in America But with Lampert at the helm, Sears does zero for a country and the communities that once made this one of America’s most successful companies. And with a rubber-stamp board of directors, Sears is still well on its way to oblivion, earning scores as the country’s worst and most embarrassing retailer—and company.
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- through a series of business transactions and sales over the years sears left his watch company started a new company sold the new company to roebuck and then returned and bought part of the new company back in 1891 sears and roebuck created a 52 page catalog of watches for the warren company weil 1977
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- Bob Iger is the CEO and chairman of Disney and a member of Apple's board of directors. Iger and Apple's relationship was solidified in 2006 when Disney purchased Pixar, the animation studio co-founded by Steve Jobs, for a deal worth an estimated $7.4bn.
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4 Reasons Sears Is Headed Straight For Death The department store has been bleeding cash, posting its ninth straight quarterly loss this morning. Sears CEO Eddie Lampert said that the company would close even more stores and cut costs in the coming months to combat the unacceptable losses. Earlier this year, former Sears executive Steven Dennis wrote that he believed a turnaround was impossible. The uncomfortable and sad reality is this: Sears has zero chance of transforming itself into a viable retail entity, Dennis said.
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Sears 1 Sears HomeLife was a chain of furniture stores owned by Sears. 2  The concept was introduced at a mall in Fresno, California in 1989, followed by a stand-alone store in Madison, Wisconsin. 3  Sears sold the stores to Citicorp Venture in 1999, who changed the chain's name to just HomeLife.
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Meet Jeff Bezos, the Founder of Amazon Most everyone has heard of Amazon, the largest retailer on Amazon with literally millions of products and customers. However, not many people are familiar with Jeff Bezos, the person who actually came up with the idea of Amazon, revolutionizing the way we view Internet commerce and how we shop for what we need. Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon, the largest retailer on the Web, created in 1994. Throughout the years, Amazon has acquired several different online retailers and added their distinctiveness to its own, including the Internet Movie Database and Zappos.
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Henry Ford #Entrepreneurspotlight: This is Henry Ford--American industrialist, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry.
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Walter Chrysler Walter Percy Chrysler (April 2, 1875 – August 18, 1940) was an American automotive industry executive and founder of Chrysler Corporation, now a part of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.