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  2. L. Frank Baum - Wikipedia

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    The former Show Window magazine is still currently in operation, now known as VMSD magazine [23] (visual merchandising + store design), based in Cincinnati. [24] In 1900, Baum published a book about window displays in which he stressed the importance of mannequins in drawing customers. [25] He also had to work as a traveling salesman. [26 ...

  3. Visual merchandising - Wikipedia

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    Visual merchandising is the practice in the retail industry of optimizing the presentation of products and services to better highlight their features and benefits. The purpose of such visual merchandising is to attract, engage, and motivate the customer towards making a purchase.

  4. Underwood & Underwood - Wikipedia

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    Around 1900, Underwood & Underwood introduced boxed sets, with specific themes, such as education and religion, and travel sets depicting popular tourist areas of the world. By 1910, Underwood & Underwood had entered the field of news photography. Due to this expansion, stereograph production was reduced until the early years of World War I ...

  5. History of retail - Wikipedia

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    Before long, however, major department stores began to open across the US, Britain, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand from the mid-nineteenth century, including Harrod's of London in 1834; Kendall's in Manchester in 1836; Selfridges of London in 1909; Macy's of New York in 1858; Bloomingdale's in 1861; Sak's in 1867; Sears in 1893; Nordstrom ...

  6. Department store - Wikipedia

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    Interior of Le Bon Marché in Paris (2008). A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store, each area ("department") specializing in a product category.

  7. History of advertising - Wikipedia

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    Advertising revenue as a percent of US GDP shows a rise in audio-visual and digital advertising at the expense of print media. [1] The history of advertising can be traced to ancient civilizations. It became a major force in capitalist economies in the mid-19th century, based primarily on newspapers and magazines.

  8. William Whiteley - Wikipedia

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    Whiteley was born in Yorkshire in the small village of Purston, situated between Wakefield and Pontefract.His father was a prosperous corn dealer, who had little interest in rearing his son, leaving William to be raised by an uncle.

  9. Georges (store) - Wikipedia

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    The store had such cachet that there have been four books written about it. In 1979 Keith Dunstan published The Store on the Hill, one year before the store's centenary. In 2003, the former head of visual merchandising Laurie Carew, with former model Diane Masters, published Behind the Glass, which they followed up with a second book Still Here in 2006.