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The company was established as the Rike-Kumler company in downtown Dayton, Ohio in 1853. They would remain independent until 1959 when they joined the Federated Department Stores company, at which time the company owned the then 650,000 sq ft downtown store, a 280,000 sq ft service building, two warehouses, and the Miami Hotel. [6]
This is a list of major companies and organizations in Greater Cincinnati, through corporate or subsidiary headquarters or through significant operational and employment presence near Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Altogether, six Fortune 500 companies and seven Fortune 1000 companies have headquarters in the Cincinnati area. [1]
Built in 1918, the complex was originally home to the Oesterlein Machine tool plant. In the 1930s, the Fashion Frocks dress company acquired the property and manufactured women's clothing. [2] Fashion Frocks also made parachutes during World War II. Currently, the complex is home to the American Sign Museum and loft apartments. [3]
Dawahares (pronounced DAW-hairs [1]) was an American retail clothing department store chain. It was founded by Sarur Frank (S. F.) Dawahare, who immigrated from Syria in 1907 in Neon, Kentucky , and remained within the family for four generations.
In 1817, John Shillito (November 1808 – September 1879) [1] arrived in Cincinnati (from Greensburg, Pennsylvania). The nine-year-old lad was soon working for the Cincinnati business Blatchley & Simpson. In 1830, he left to form a partnership with William McLaughlin, selling dry goods. A year later, McLaughlin left the company, and was ...
U.S. Shoe's history dates back to 1879 with the establishment of the Stern-Auer Shoe Company in Cincinnati. [1] In 1921, eight other Cincinnati shoe manufacturers consolidated to form the United States Shoe Corporation—which had Red Cross Shoes as its flagship brand—but by 1929 the combine was failing, and Joseph Stern, head of Stern-Auer, proposed to merge the two companies with the ...
Five Dayton, Ohio, Rink's stores, including two former Ontario locations which had been rebranded for less than a year were closed in December 1981. [6] In 1983 and 1984, Cook United announced 41 further closings including all 14 Cincinnati-area Rink's stores, 8 stores in Columbus and 9 CSC stores in Louisville. [7]
The company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914, when Mortimer Slater, with Charles Anson Bond and Lester Cohen, founded the stores as a retail outlet for their suit manufacturing company. Charles Anson Bond, whose name was chosen for its market value and meaning left Cleveland for Columbus, Ohio where he opened a branch of the company.