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• Rich's department store name being retired after 137 years.

  - 2004-09-14

  By Renee Degross, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 14--The Rich's name, a fixture in Atlanta shopping for nearly 140 years, will soon disappear. Federated Department Stores said Monday it will remove the name from its Rich's-Macy's...

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• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Retailing Column.

  - 2003-07-26

  By Renee DeGross, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 26--The run-down Castlegate Hotel may yet meet the wrecking ball to make way, potentially, for a Costco and other retailers, restaurants and residential units. Developer Selig Enterprises plans...

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• Federated Department Stores Combines Rich's, Macy's in Atlanta.

  - 2003-02-02

  By Renee Degross and Leon Stafford, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 2--For now, it's a marriage in name only. Rich's and Macy's shoppers will notice few changes today as Federated Department Stores Inc. officially combines the two at...

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• Vacated Store Sites in Atlanta, Ga., Area Stir Interest.

  - 2003-01-25

  By Renee Degross, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 25--One retailer's rejects may be another's treasure. Weighing the glut of soon-to-be empty Kmart and Macy's stores, most real estate experts are expecting that the Macy's vacancies will...

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• Rich's-Macy's Atlanta Stores to Consolidate, Bloomingdale's to Enter Metro Atlanta with Two Stores

  - 2003-01-16

  Business Editors CINCINNATI--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 16, 2003 Federated Department Stores, Inc. (NYSE:FD)(PCX:FD) today announced the strategic integration of its Rich's and Macy's stores in metro Atlanta beginning in February, as well as plans to bring Bloomingdale's to the Atlanta market in two major malls as early as fall of...

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• Holiday Weekend Sales Gladden Retailers.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2000-11-28

  Nov. 28--Shoppers hit the ground running last weekend, boosting retail sales for the traditional start of the holiday selling season. Some 77.5 million shoppers flocked to malls on Saturday and Sunday, compared with 72.5 million during the same period in 1999, according to a...

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• Federated Announces New Rich's Store

  - 2000-05-19

  Business Editors CINCINNATI--BUSINESS WIRE--May 19, 2000 Federated Department Stores, Inc. today announced that its board of directors has approved construction of a new Rich's store at the Mall at Stonecrest, east of Atlanta. The new Rich's store will be a two-level, full-line department store, excluding furniture, of...

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• LAZARUS' KETTERING STORE CLOSING

  - 1998-08-10

  ATLANTA -- The Rich's/Lazarus/Goldsmith's division of Federated Department Stores Inc. will close its Lazarus store at Kettering Center in Kettering, Ohio, later this month. The move is part of a strategic refocusing on stores that have higher future growth potential for the company. The company expects...

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• Shoppers Welcome A Federated Department Store to Macon, Ga..

  - 1998-07-05

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 3--They travel to Atlanta and Savannah to shop at Rich's, so of course Middle Georgia shoppers turned out in force at the Macon Mall to christen the department store's local grand opening with a purchase, or at least some looking. ...

  Tags: Atlanta, Federated Department Stores Inc., Macy, SALES

• Rich's Executive to Lead Another Federated Retailer.(Originated from The Atlanta Journal and Constitution)

  - 1997-05-06

  ATLANTA--May 6--The No. 2 executive at Atlanta-based Rich's is leaving the department store chain to lead another retailer in the Federated Department Stores Inc. family. Susan Kronick, who spent four years as Rich's president and chief operating officer, will become chairman...

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