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Rose Blumkin (née Gorelick; December 3, 1893 – August 9, 1998) was an American businesswoman who founded the Nebraska Furniture Mart in 1937. [1] Businessman Warren Buffett said of her, "One question I always ask myself in appraising a business is how I would like, assuming I had ample capital and skilled personnel, to compete with it.
On November 9, 2011, Nebraska Furniture Mart announced a plan to expand its retail operation to North Texas. Construction of the new store started in September 2012 in The Colony, which is a far northern suburb of Dallas. The new location had an unadvertised soft opening on March 4, 2015 for friends and family. After training more than 2,000 ...
F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...
Oct. 3, 1953: Wyatt Food Stores will formally open their second Fort Worth store Thursday in Fair East Shopping Center, 4700 block E. Lancaster. Also opening in the center will be the second Wyatt ...
Oct. 11, 1950: A newly developed versatile piece of furniture finally is arriving in Fort Worth in quantity, announced E.L. Childers, furniture department manager at Leonard’s Department Store ...
Henri Willis Bendel (1868–1936), founder of women's accessories store Henri Bendel, Inc. [196] Arthur Blank (born 1942), co-founder of the Home Depot, owner of NFL's Atlanta Falcons [197] Joseph and Lyman Bloomingdale, co-founders of Bloomingdale's [198] [191] Rose Blumkin, Belarus-born founder of the Nebraska Furniture Mart [199]
An Arhaus luxury furniture store is opening in Grapevine Mills Mall, which would be the company’s third location in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The premium furniture and home decor retailer ...
GEM – initially called Government Employees Mutual Stores, and later Government Employees Mart before settling on G. E. M. Membership Department Stores, a profit-making company that was aimed at the governmental employees market; first store was opened in Denver in 1956; [190] after several expansions, the company filed for bankruptcy in 1974 ...