Kmart Corporation. Sears Holdings, the parent company of Kmart, declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 15, 2018. S. S. Kresge, the founder of the company that would become Kmart, met variety-store pioneer Frank Winfield Woolworth while working as a traveling salesman and selling to all 19 of Woolworth's stores at the time. In 1897 Kresge invested $6,700 saved from his job into a five-and-dime store in Memphis, Tennessee. He jointly owned the first store with his former tinware customer, John McCrory. Kresge and McCrory added a second store in downtown Detroit the following year. These were the first S.S. Kresge stores.
S. C. C. Anthony Pillai S. C. C. Anthony Pillai Sebastian Cyril Constantine Anthony Pillai (27 April 1914 – 16 August 2000) was an Indian trade unionist, politician and Member of Parliament. Anthony Pillai was born on 27 April 1914 in Jaffna in northern Ceylon. He was the son of S. Anthony Pillai. His family were Roman Catholics whose ancestors came from Tirunelveli District in India. Anthony Pillai was educated at St. Patrick's College, Jaffna. After school he studied history at the Ceylon University College. He later studied at King's College London where he was a member of the India League and a Marxist study