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• May Co.'s Cash Buys Marshall Field's Cachet.

  - 2004-06-13

  By Allyce Bess, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 13--May Department Stores Co.'s bold purchase of Marshall Field's is, by any measure, a milestone. Weighing in at $3.24 billion in cash, it's St. Louis-based May's largest acquisition...

  Tags: analyst, brand, Branding, Dillard, Federated Department Stores Inc., FINANCE, Investment, MARKETING, Marshall, May Department Stores Co., SALES

• May Department Stores to Pay $3.24 Billion for Marshall Field's.

  - 2004-06-10

  By Becky Yerak, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 10--Marshall Field's is getting a new owner, but its name and its Frango mints will live on. Capping a three-month bidding war, Target Corp. said Wednesday that it would sell...

  Tags: Chicago, Dillard, Federated Department Stores Inc., Lord & Taylor, SALES, Target Corp.

• Investors bet on Dillard's sale: But analysts confident family will hold on following founder's death

  - 2002-02-18

  THE DEATH OF WILLIAM T. Dillard on Feb. 8 has given the investment community a whole new reason to look closely at Dillard's Inc. Stock speculators began buying shares on the expectation that the death of the company's founder might foreshadow the sale of the Little Rock department store...

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• BIG DOOR DRAMA.

  - 1998-12-14

  NEW YORK -- The current holiday selling season could mark a turning point for the nation's department stores. Caught between the customer's growing fascination with discounters and the increasing power of specialty stores, the biggest names in retailing are finding it increasingly difficult to...

  Tags: Branding, Dillard, Federated Department Stores Inc., Macy, MARKETING, May Department Stores Co., Mervyn, Nordstrom Inc., Retail, Saks Inc., SALES

• Merger of Dillard's, Mercantile Stores Stirs Speculation in South Carolina.

  - 1998-05-20

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 20--The sounds of planning are almost audible as retailers eye spaces likely to open at malls throughout South Carolina after the merger of Dillard's Inc. and Mercantile Stores Co. National retailers such as Proffitt's, Parisian, May Department Stores and Sears...

  Tags: Columbia, Dillard, Federated Department Stores Inc., FINANCE, Investment, Macy, May Department Stores Co., merger, Retail

• Dillard's, Mercantile Stores Merger Likely to Mean Stronger Retail Chain.

  - 1998-05-19

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 19--The merger announced Monday between Dillard's Inc. and Mercantile Stores Inc. probably means a stronger future for the pair than either company could have found alone. And the increased efficiencies that come from joining forces probably mean a better shopping...

  Tags: Dillard, Federated Department Stores Inc., FINANCE, Investment, merger

• BUSINESSWorld

  - 1996-07-01

  Council frowns on fibbing TULSA AP -- Don't lie to the City Council. It could cost you $100 or a 10-day stint in jail. Members unanimously adopted an ordinance against false statements or false documents presented to their group. "We simply do not have...

  Tags: Associated Press, council, Dillard, Federated Department Stores Inc., General Motors Corp., Macy, Manufacturing, PepsiCo

• Federated won't sell or swap Macy's Atlanta-area stores; will run those units along with Rich's in the South. (Federated Department Stores to retain Macy's units in Atlanta, Georgia)

  - 1994-09-30

  Federated Department Stores Inc announced that it would not sell the Macy's units in Atlanta, GA acquired in its merger with R. H. Macy and Company Inc. An industry source reported that Federated was not able to obtain the price it wanted for the Atlanta, GA metropolitan area stores and...

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• Prudential report: Federated eyes sale of 24 Macy's in the southeast; says interested in cash, store swaps. (Federated Department Stores) (Brief Article)

  - 1994-08-25

  Say interested in cash, store swaps NEW YORK FNS -- Federated Department Stores, Inc., is reportedly trying to dispose of a block of R.H. Macy & Co. stores in the Southeast, according to a research report by Prudential Securities. "We...

  Tags: Dillard, Federated Department Stores Inc., Macy, Prudential Insurance Company of America, SALES

• What'll be merged; who'll be purged? (R.H. Macy and Co./Federated Department Stores Inc. merger)

  - 1994-08-09

  The merger of R.H. Macy & Co and Federated Department Stores Inc raises a number of logistical problems for the merged entity. Some of those problems include deciding which buying process to utilize, resolving an antitrust issue raised by the Congressional Antitrust Subcommittee employee moral problems and deciding which stores...

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