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During the period from 1925 to 1928, the number of Melville stores increased by 184% and net income expanded 360%. In the first three months of 1929 the chain store realized a 34% increase in sales over 1928. [1] In February 1930 the Melville Shoe Corporation controlled 460 Thom McAn, Rival, and John Ward stores in thirty-nine of the United ...
Chess King was an American men's clothing retailer created by the Melville Corporation. From its founding in 1968, it grew to over 500 locations by the mid-1980s, before an eventual decline, sale, and closure of the chain in 1995.
In 1922, Ward Melville succeeded his father as Chief Executive Officer of the Melville Corporation - the third largest retailer in the United States at the time (with chains that would later include CVS Drugs, Marshalls, KB Toys, etc.) - and purchased the land surrounding the location of where Stony Brook Village Center would be built.
The name "CVS" was used for the first time in 1964. That year, they had 17 retail locations, and 40 stores five years later. [17] In 1967, CVS began operation of its first stores with pharmacy departments, opening locations in Warwick and Cumberland, Rhode Island. CVS was acquired by the now-defunct Melville Corporation in 1969, boosting its ...
After the merger, all of Jewel's subsidiaries soon had an Osco Drug. Some Eisner Food Stores locations were re-branded "Eisner-Osco". When Jewel acquired Star Market in 1964, the first Osco Drug in New England was opened, and some were next to Star Market locations and were branded as "Star-Osco". By 1968, Osco grew to 168 stores in sixteen states.
Bob's Stores was a chain of retail stores in the northeastern United States owned by GoDigital Media Group.Founded as Bob's Surplus in Middletown, Connecticut, by Robert "Bob" Lapidus in 1954, the chain expanded gradually until it was acquired by Melville Corporation and has been reacquired five more times since then.
In May 1993, it purchased the Chess King clothing chain from the Melville Corporation. [4] It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1994 and began liquidation sales by February 1996. [5] At its end, the company operated just over 500 locations, [3] primarily in enclosed malls. [1]
Wilsons House of Suede and Leather was acquired by Melville Corporation in 1982. After Melville purchased Bermans from W. R. Grace and Company, [5] it merged the two retailers under the Wilsons Leather name in summer of 1986. Melville added new acquisition Georgetown Leather Design to the division in 1993 and operated Wilsons Leather until 1996 ...