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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.
Target's original bullseye logo, used from 1962 until 1968 [1]. The history of Target Corporation first began in 1902 by George Dayton.The company was originally named Goodfellow Dry Goods in June 1902 before being renamed the Dayton's Dry Goods Company in 1903 and later the Dayton Company in 1910.
The Dayton corporation, now known as the Target Corporation, was the company John Geisse worked for when he founded the Target stores and was founded in Minneapolis by businessman George Dayton in 1902, and developed through the years via expansion and acquisitions.
Dayton's was an American department store chain founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1902 by George Draper Dayton.It operated several local high-end department stores throughout Minnesota and the Upper Midwest for almost 100 years. [1]
Curt Carlson - founder of Carlson Companies; George Dayton - founder of Target Corporation; William Hood Dunwoody - businessman and co-founder General Mills and Wells Fargo; J. Paul Getty - founder of Getty Oil; Doron Jensen - co-founder of Timber Lodge Steakhouse and Old Country Buffet; Franklin and Forrest Mars - founders of Mars ...
Bruce Bliss Dayton (August 16, 1918 – November 13, 2015) was an American retail executive, businessman, heir to the Dayton's Company fortune, and philanthropist.. Dayton was the last surviving member of the five Dayton brothers – all grandsons of George Dayton, the founder of The Dayton Company – who expanded Dayton's department store founded by their grandfather in downtown Minneapolis ...
March 6 – George Dayton, businessman, founder of Target Corporation (died 1938) March 7 – Genevieve Stebbins, performer of the Delsarte system of expression (died 1934) March 20 – Benjamin F. Shively, U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1909 to 1916 (died 1916) March 21 Charles Ellis Johnson, photographer (died 1926) Hunter Liggett, general ...
[6] [7] He is a great-grandson of businessman George Dayton, the founder of the Dayton's department store chain. His father, Bruce Dayton, served as the chairman and CEO of Dayton Hudson Corporation, the company that later became the Target Corporation. [8] Bruce Dayton also founded the B. Dalton bookstore chain in 1966. [9]