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On Dec. 20, Big Lots announced a transaction with liquidation firm Gordon Brothers Retail Partners — a deal that would transfer over 200 to 400 Big Lots stores to Variety Wholesalers, Inc ...
Fry's Electronics – Closed permanently in 2021 after 35 years as a result of low sales, and potentially bankruptcy and liquidation due to online competition and the COVID-19 pandemic; Future Shop – Closed in the US 1999. Bought out by Best Buy 2001.
The Chapter 11 reorganization was converted to Chapter 7 liquidation on February 26, 2009. Some of NWL's assets were acquired out of bankruptcy by NSC Wholesale Holdings Inc., operated by former NWL executives. [1] As of February 2018, NWL operated 12 retail locations in Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. [2]
Although Service Merchandise was early to embrace the Internet in the 1990s, generating tens of millions of dollars in sales, it was not enough to offset the damage done by the mega-chain stores springing up nationwide. Gary M. Witkin was appointed to the new position of president and chief operating officer in 1994. [6] [7] [8]
In 2010, 2011 and 2012, Inc. named it one of the fastest-growing companies in the nation. [2] In 2012, Merchandize Liquidators doubled its revenues. [3] Merchandize Liquidators 2011 gross sales were $5.4 million and the percentage revenue growth for the four-year period through 2011 was more than 700 percent, according to a report by a leading trade publication. [4]
Liquidation sales began on May 22, and the stores closed by July 31. [166] Another 8 stores and a distribution center closed in 2018 while over 50 additional stores were expected to close between mid-2019 and late 2020. [167] [168] JCPenney filed for bankruptcy on May 15, 2020, and announced plans to close at least 242 stores. [169]
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Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...