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• May Formalwear Unit Buys Significant Share of Chicago-Area Market.

  - 2004-02-27

  By Bob Brown, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 27--As owner of the largest bridal store chain in the nation, May Department Stores Co. knows a bit about weddings. So when the St. Louis-based retailer spied the fragmented men's ...

  Tags: Chicago, May Department Stores Co., SALES, Strategy

• Loss of Downtown Stores A U.S. Trend, But Pittsburgh Still Has Many Retailers.

  - 2004-01-18

  By Teresa F. Lindeman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 18--Federated Department Stores' decision to close its nearly new Downtown Lazarus-Macy's store, coming just months after May Department Stores Co. said it will close the neighboring Lord & Taylor store,...

  Tags: Lord & Taylor, May Department Stores Co., Pittsburgh, Retail, SALES, Strategy

• David's Bridal Continues Expansion throughout the United States.

  - 2004-01-10

  By Paul Grimaldi, Providence Journal, R.I. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 10--It's an 800-lb. gorilla in a white satin dress. And it's gobbling up customers like they were fresh fruit on the hors d'oeuvres table at a wedding reception. David's...

  Tags: dress, May Department Stores Co., Strategy, women

• May Department Stores Announces Executive Retirements.

  - 2002-03-02

  By Chern Yeh Kwok, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 2--In an executive shuffle Friday, May Department Stores Co. said the chief executive and the chairman of its merchandising and sourcing division both will retire by October. ...

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• 3,500 INDUSTRY EXECS VOTE PRO-KAHN; MAY CO. CEO IS HONORED AT FIT EVENT THAT HELPS TO RAISE $7M FOR EDUCATION.(Fashion Insistute of Technology honors Gene Kahn of May Department Stores Co.)(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)

  - 1999-11-17

  It's not every executive who can fill the Hilton Hotel's Grand Ballroom to overflowing. But then, Gene Kahn is not just any executive. He's the CEO of May Department Stores Co., the nation's second-largest department store company. As such, 3,500 industry executives turned...

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