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• BALANCE SHEET; WINNERS AND LOSERS ON THE FISCAL BATTLEFIELD.(includes news briefs from Haggar Corp., May Department Stores Co.)

  - 2003-08-04

  Like the singer in that Kinks song, consumers are tired of waiting. CONSUMER CONFIDENCE took a surprising and entirely unwelcome dip in July, dropping 6.9 points to 76.6 from June's healthier 83.5 level. Analysts, economists and others with skillful ways of expressing their opinions seemed to...

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• May Stores cutting about 21 Utah jobs

  - 2003-06-26

  May Department Stores Co., which owns the Meier & Frank department store chain, announced Wednesday that it was cutting about 1,500 jobs nationwide, including more than 20 in Utah. "We are making every effort to keep our store expenses in line with our sales," Sharon Bateman, May's vice...

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• May Department Stores to Cut 100 Jobs at St. Louis Headquarters.

  - 2003-01-31

  By Thomas Lee, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 31--May Department Stores Co. plans to eliminate 100 jobs, or about 10 percent of its corporate headquarters staff in St. Louis. In a letter sent to employees Thursday, John Dunham,...

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• Credit-Card Manager in Pittsburgh to Offer Work for Former Store Employees.

  - 2002-07-13

  By Teresa F. Lindeman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 13--A New York-based credit card manager with 230 employees Downtown expects to offer up to 500 jobs to workers who are losing their jobs at Kaufmann's. Cardholder Management Services is...

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• Pittsburgh Views May Department Stores' Office Move as Fait Accompli.

  - 2002-05-11

  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 11--In the week since the May Department Stores Co. shocked Pittsburgh with plans to cut 1,200 jobs from its Downtown Kaufmann's offices, attempts to change the retailer's mind appear to have been half-hearted. ...

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• Meier & Frank Department Store Loses Portland, Ore., Headquarters, 500 Jobs.

  - 2002-05-04

  The Oregonian, Portland, Ore. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 4--Meier & Frank, the Oregon department store chain with origins that predate statehood, is losing its Portland headquarters and roughly 500 administrative jobs, the chain's St. Louis-based owner and stunned city officials announced Friday. ...

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• Sale of Philadelphia's Strawbridge & Clothier Costs 4,000 Jobs.(Originated from The Philadelphia Inquirer)

  - 1996-04-05

  PHILADELPHIA--Apr. 5--Strawbridge & Clothier, giving up its 128 years of independence, agreed to sell its department stores Thursday to the same company that converted John Wanamaker stores to Hecht's last year. The 27 Clover discount stores operated by the Philadelphia retailer will close after September,...

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• May Department Stores, J.C. Penney File Bide for Department Store Chain.(Originated from Philadelphia Daily News)

  - 1995-07-28

  July 28--The May Department Stores Co. of St. Louis and J.C. Penney Co. of Plano, Texas, filed a joint bid yesterday to buy the assets of bankrupt Woodward & Lothrop Corp., which owns the John Wanamaker chain. The bid promises to save 13 of the Wanamaker...

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• May Co. to merge Foley's May D&F. (May Department Stores Co.) (Brief Article)

  - 1993-01-29

  CHICAGO -- The May Department Stores Co. said Thursday it will consolidate its Denver-based May D&F division with Houston-based Foley's into a 49-unit chain with combined sales of $1.5 billion. The May D&F stores will be renamed Foley's when the merger is completed....

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