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Toastmaster is a brand name for home appliances. It was originally (1921) the name of one of the world's first automatic electric pop-up toasters for home use, the Toastmaster Model 1-A-1. [ 1 ] Since then the Toastmaster brand has been used on a wide range of small kitchen appliances, such as coffeemakers , waffle irons , toasters , and blenders .
This is a list of Georgia companies, current and former businesses whose headquarters are, or were, in the U.S. state of Georgia. Companies based in Georgia [ edit ]
Ellman's was a major catalog merchant. [1] It was located in suburban locations of Georgia and North Carolina, mainly Atlanta and Charlotte.Directly competing with Service Merchandise, Ellman's was ultimately bought out by Service Merchandise in 1985 and all stores were converted to Service Merchandise.
Ramsay's fiery self-belief in the industry led him to contract a university chemist C. F. Burgess to concoct a battery to rival those made in America and Europe. Burgess actually succeeded, to his own financial cost, and the company survived, with him becoming a shareholder; but after a fire destroyed the plant in 1915, he left to found his own ...
Value City Department Stores was an American department store chain with 113 locations. It was founded in 1917 by Ephraim Schottenstein, a travelling salesman in central Ohio. The store was an off-price retailer that sold clothing, jewelry, and home goods below the manufacturer suggested retail price. The chain focused on buyout and closeout ...
Macy's got its start as America's first department store before the Civil War, and with all the ups and downs of the last 160+ years, the brand still lives on today.
Service Merchandise also had other wholly owned subsidiaries featuring retail stores, such as Zim's Jewelers, HomeOwners Warehouse (later called Mr. HOW Warehouse), [5] The Lingerie Store and The Toy Store. The retailer also provided some of the prizes on Classic Concentration on NBC, and Shop 'til You Drop and Shopping Spree. [citation needed]
Last year, Target pulled Pride merchandise from some stores after the company and its employees became the focus of a “volatile” anti-LGBTQ campaign, which included threats against its store ...