May Department Stores Co.

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• Merger costs, weak sales hurt May's quarterly earnings

  - 2005-08-10

  ST. LOUIS -- May Department Stores Co.'s earnings fell by nearly half in the second quarter, hurt by expenses from a pending merger with rival Federated Department Stores Inc. and disappointing same- store sales, the company said Tuesday. Quarterly income dropped to $52 million, or 16 cents per...

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• May company's earnings rise 5.6% in first quarter

  - 2004-05-12

  ST. LOUIS -- Strong sales of women's apparel, footwear and accessories helped lift May Department Stores Co.'s earnings by 5.6 percent in the first quarter, but the results narrowly missed Wall Street expectations. The St. Louis-based operator of Meier & Frank, Lord & Taylor, Famous-Barr, The Jones Store...

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• New Nokia phone hacked?

  - 2003-11-12

  Hackers claimed Tuesday to have cracked the security code on Nokia's new N-Gage, saying they could play its games on other multimedia-capable cell phones. The company said it was investigating the claims. Several Web sites and online bulletin boards said the code that protects Nokia's proprietary software was broken. If...

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• Wal-Mart, May Stores see profits rise; Penney falters

  - 2003-05-14

  NEW YORK -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., bolstered by its international results, said Tuesday its earnings rose 14 percent in its first quarter, while two other major retailers reported weak profits for a period hobbled by conflict in Iraq, cool and rainy weather and job losses. May Department Stores...

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• May Department Stores Posts 38 Percent Loss in Second-Quarter Earnings.

  - 2002-08-13

  Standard-Examiner, Ogden, Utah Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 13--ST. LOUIS--Second quarter earnings for May Department Stores Co. were off 38 percent, after including the costs of consolidating some of the retail chain's various divisions. The St. Louis-based retailer's net quarterly...

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• MAY CO. BEATS WALL STREET WITH 7.4% RISE IN EARNINGS--STRONG 4TH-QUARTER GAINS FUELED BY LAST-MINUTE HOLIDAY SURGE SALES.

  - 1999-02-12

  NEW YORK -- Benefiting from a burst of post-Christmas buying, May Department Stores Co. reported a 7.4 percent earnings gain in the fourth quarter, slightly exceeding Wall Street expectations. May is one of the first retailers to report what is expected to be...

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• May, Mercantile earnings sluggish in 3d quarter. (May Department Stores Co., Mercantile Stores Co., 1997)(Brief Article)

  - 1997-11-14

  NEW YORK -- With May Department Stores Co.'s profits falling a penny shy of Wall Street estimates, and Mercantile Stores Co. just matching analysts' projections, third-quarter results for retailers are off to a lackluster start. Excluding special charges of $15 million, Mercantile earnings inched ahead...

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• May Co. profits up 5.5%.(May Department Stores Co.'s financial results for second quarter of 1997)(Brief Article)

  - 1997-08-13

  ST. LOUIS -- Coming in about as expected, May Department Stores Co. reported second-quarter earnings up 5.5 percent to $116 million, or 46 cents a share, from $110 million, or 41 cents. The consensus estimate on Wall Street for the quarter was 46 cents. Per-share earnings...

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• Big stores: footwear paced 1st qtr. gains.

  - 1996-05-27

  Sales of men's and women's footwear in departments stores improved noticeable in the 1st qtr 1996, and the sales helped brighten overall earnings. Dayton Hudson Corp. reported a sales increase of 13.1% to $5.4 billion. Wal-Mart reported a 3% rise in earnings to $571 million. May Department Stores reported a...

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• Business World

  - 1996-05-14

  Living history in Oklahoma FORT GIBSON AP -- The Oklahoma Historical Society will open a new museum, a historic trail and its first continuous living history project on June 1 at the Fort Gibson Historic Site. Fort Gibson was a frontier fort operated by the U.S. Army...

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