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Charles "Chuck" Harrison (September 23, 1931 — November 29, 2018) [1] was an American industrial designer, speaker and educator.He was the first African-American executive to work at Sears, Roebuck and Company, starting in 1961 as a designer and eventually becoming manager of the company's entire design group.
"Busy wives love the ease of shopping by phone," read a 1960s catalog for the country's biggest retailer. Sears can no longer lay claim to that title, and it discontinued its iconic catalog in 1993.
Edward Scott Lampert (born July 19, 1962) [2] is an American billionaire businessman. He is the former chief executive and chairman of Sears Holdings, the founder of Transformco, and the founder, chairman, and chief executive of ESL Investments.
Sears Holdings Corporation was an American holding company headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.It was the parent company of the chain stores Kmart and Sears and was founded after the former purchased the latter in 2005. [7]
Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears (/ s ɪər z / SEERZ), [6] is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail ordering catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. [7]
He attended Marquette University while working for Benson and Rixon, a menswear store where he had started work at 15 and where he rose to be a high-level manager before joining Sears in 1956. [6] In March 1980 his predecessor as CEO, Edward R. Telling, appointed him president with the task of reinvigorating the company's stores. [7]
Michael M. Sears (born July 16, 1947) is an American former Boeing executive who was fired and criminally convicted for his role in the United States Air Force tanker contract controversy. In 1992 Sears led the successful development of the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet . [ 2 ]
Sears Credit Card – Sears credit card and Sears MasterCard is owned and operated by Citibank since 2003. [ 76 ] Sears Flowers – an online store that was owned and operated by Teleflora which sold Flowers, Plants and gifts for same day delivery via the Teleflora network.