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• MACY'S 'COAST-TO-COAST' BLITZ: NOW WITH OVER 800 DEPARTMENT STORES ACROSS THE U.S., MACY'S SEEN BOOSTING FEDERATED SALES TO $27 BILLION.(Federated Department Stores Inc., May Department Stores Co.)

  - 2006-09-11

  Byline: JEAN E. PALMIERI NEW YORK - Calling it "the shot heard round the world," Terry Lundgren, chairman and CEO of Federated Department Stores, kicked off the company's largest and splashiest advertising and marketing campaign ever last week as it officially converted more...

  Tags: Branding, Federated Department Stores Inc., Macy, MARKETING, May Department Stores Co., SALES

• FEDERATED 'ON TRACK' AS SALES SURGE; DESPITE DRAMATIC GROWTH, COSTS OF MAY CO. ACQUISITION PULL DEPARTMENT STORE RETAILER INTO RED IN FIRST QUARTER.(Federated Department Stores Inc., May Department Stores Co.)

  - 2006-05-15

  Byline: VICKI M. YOUNG NEW YORK - Federated Department Stores Inc.'s bottom line for the first quarter of its "transition year" was heavily weighed down by the costs of merging with May Department Stores. The retailer last Wednesday posted a...

  Tags: acquisition, Federated Department Stores Inc., FINANCE, Investment, Lord & Taylor, Macy, May Department Stores Co., Retail, SALES

• Federated finishes buying May Stores

  - 2005-08-31

  Federated Department Stores Inc. completed its $11 billion purchase of May Department Stores Co. Tuesday and said it will sell an additional seven stores in California, New York and Massachusetts next year, bringing the total to 75. Federated will close two stores in New York, one in Massachusetts...

  Tags: Federated Department Stores Inc., FINANCE, Macy, May Department Stores Co., Retail, SALES

• MERGER MAKES A `FEDER-AL' CASE OF MAY'S HOME DEPARTMENT.

  - 2005-03-21

  Byline: Barbara Thau NEW YORK-The merger of Federated Department Stores and May Department Stores Co. will create a retailer with $4.4 billion in home furnishings sales. But what will it take to "Feder-alize" May's home business, its worst-performing division of late? ...

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• Some shoppers sad to see stores renamed

  - 2005-03-04

  SEATTLE -- Standing outside the Bon Marche department store in downtown Seattle, Marguerite Norbut lamented the day that workers replaced the sign she'd walked past for years with a new but familiar name: Macy's. "I've seen it since I was a little girl!" said Norbut, 54, who grew...

  Tags: brand, Branding, Federated Department Stores Inc., Macy, MARKETING, May Department Stores Co.

• Marshall Field's Chain Sold to May Department Stores in $3.2-Billion Deal.

  - 2004-06-10

  By Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 10--Target Corp. agreed Wednesday to sell its 62 Marshall Field's department stores to May Department Stores Co. of St. Louis, the parent company of the struggling Lord & Taylor chain. ...

  Tags: Detroit, Federated Department Stores Inc., FINANCE, Hudson, Lord & Taylor, Macy, May Department Stores Co., Michigan, SALES, Target Corp.

• Florida Disability-Rights Group Claims Benchmark Settlement with Retail Firm.

  - 2001-07-19

  By Chern Yeh Kwok, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 19--Access Now Inc., a disability-rights group from Florida, says its proposed class-action settlement with May Department Stores Co. sets a benchmark for the retail industry. But other disability groups nationwide...

  Tags: Litigation, Macy, May Department Stores Co., settlement

• 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

• Retail scoreboard.

  - 1997-05-23

  Discount houses, specialty stores, and department store chains comprise the retail industry in the US. It is difficult to keep track of the major chains as there are constant changes in the makeup, finances, and the managements who are responsible for the industry. A listing of the top branded retailers...

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