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Famous-Barr

is in the Retail Industry

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$1.0B
  • Private
  • US
Dow Jones Description

Department Stores Operator

Number of Employees 1,000
Contact Information

601 Olive St

Saint Louis, Missouri 63101-1717

www.famousbarr....

(314) 444-3111

NAICS Code All Other Home Furnishings Stores: 442299

News & Analysis

famous-barr - All News and Analysis

  • Famous-Barr

    - 2006-02-01

    Helen Weiss was honored as "The Queen of Everything" for her contributions to the St. Louis arts community. Weiss is the divisional vice president of public relations for Famous-Barr.

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  • Famous-Barr Uses Columbia, Mo., Store to Test-Market Younger Shoppers.

    - 2003-11-29

    By Thomas Lee, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 29--COLUMBIA, Mo.--A new Famous-Barr department store might not elicit more than a shrug from the average St. Louis-area shopper. But for executives at May Department Stores Co., this particular ...

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  • Famous-Barr Follows Retail Trend with Freestanding Columbia, Mo., Store.

    - 2003-10-31

    By Arcenia Harmon, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 31--Retailers all over the country are trying to lure shoppers out of the mall. With its first freestanding store open in Columbia, Famous-Barr is the latest retailer...

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  • May-Owned Famous-Barr Stores Note 4.1 Percent Drop in 2001 Sales.

    - 2002-04-06

    By Chern Yeh Kwok, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 6--Results at the Famous-Barr division of May Department Stores Co. continued to decline in 2001, a year when the economy slowed and consumers bought less apparel and shopped more at discounters. ...

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  • Retailer Famous-Barr Says Downtown St. Louis Location to Remain.

    - 2002-03-30

    By Chern Yeh Kwok, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 30--The glitter of downtown retail caught Ruth Lane at a young age. Back then, when department stores had fashion shows and windows with elaborate displays, Lane decided downtown was where she would...

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Decision Makers

Name (plus bio) Position
Peter Erlichson Buyer
Tony Morris Engineer

Organization Position Status
Famous-Barr Buyer Current
Trendlines, Inc. Buyer, Famous, Barr Current
The Famous Buyer Former
Washington University MBA Former

Mr. Morris began his career in the IT industry in 1977 as an engineer for Famous Barr, a division of May Department Stores, maintaining POS registers and back office systems. He quickly moved into a management role for Famous as that group expanded to maintain the Wide Area Network, May Corporate Data Center and most of the networked devices within Famous Barr s infrastructure. In 1987, he moved to Micom Communications initially as Presales Engineer and later as a District Manager assisting Value Added Resellers in providing Converged Solutions in the early days of integrating voice and data. In 1995, he joined Information Products, Inc.(IPI), a Wide Area Networking VAR, as a Account Executive in the St. Louis Marketplace. Mr. Morris was promoted to Sales Manager in 1997 and eventually to Vice President of Sales & Marketing. He continued to serve in the same roll when IPI was acquired by CompuNet Engineering in 2001.

Organization Position Status
Results Technology, Inc. Manager of the St. Louis, Missouri Branch Current
Famous-Barr Engineer Current
Computer Source, Inc. Current
Converged Solutions District Manager Former
Information Products Account Executive Former
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