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Target Stores opened eight new stores that year, including its first shopping mall anchor store in Grand Forks, North Dakota. [20] In 1979, it opened 13 new units to a total of 80 Target stores in eleven states. Dayton-Hudson reached $3 billion in sales, with $1.12 billion coming from the Target store chain alone. [2]
Target Corporation is an American retail corporation that operates a chain of discount department stores and hypermarkets, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.It is the seventh-largest retailer in the United States, and a component of the S&P 500 Index. [3]
George Draper Dayton (March 6, 1857 – February 18, 1938) was an American businessman and philanthropist, most famous for being the founder of Dayton's department store, which later became Target Corporation. [1] [2]
Douglas James Dayton (December 2, 1924 – July 5, 2013) was an American retail executive, businessman, and philanthropist and heir to the Dayton's Company fortune who was the co-founder of the Target discount stores chain. Dayton ran Target's operations during its early years and served as the company's first president.
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The Target division of the company eventually grew so large that in 2000 the corporation was renamed the Target Corporation. Dayton-Hudson had acquired Chicago-based Marshall Field's in 1990 and Target rebranded Dayton's stores as Marshall Field's stores in 2001 in an effort to focus more on discount retailing. In 2004, Marshall Field's was ...
In 1984, Ulrich became President of the combined Dayton and Hudson department stores, based in Minneapolis. In 1987, he was promoted to chairman and chief executive officer of the Target stores group. By 1992, the number of Target stores had doubled during Ulrich's tenure, to just over 500, with just shy of fifty more opening each year.
In 1996, Coles Myer merged the Target and Fosseys brands, [6] and their first speciality store Baby Target was established. [citation needed] Then in 1998, their second speciality store, Target Home opened. [citation needed] Fosseys stores were later renamed Target Country, [6] becoming the third speciality store under the Target name.