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...His marriages to actress Mary Beth Hurt and artistic director Heidi Henderson each ended in divorce. He had four children....
...High-end camera lenses produced by Largan Precision, metal casings from Catcher Technology and chips produced by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co....
...GE was founded in 1892 and Sears Roebuck in 1893, at a time when the continent was altered by the telegraph and electricity....
...Soon after, Sears Roebuck & Co paid $1.9bn in cash for it, a 22 per cent premium....
...A native of Michigan, 52-year-old Tom Wilson joined the Illinois-based Allstate in 1995 from Sears Roebuck....
...A former finance arm of the US retailing group Sears Roebuck, Discover had been hatched by Phil Purcell, who later ran Morgan Stanley....
...Sears Roebuck, the department store chain, moved out of the tower to a new headquarters in the suburbs in 1992. The renaming has provoked complaints from Chicagoans....
...Kmart’s headquarters were located in Troy, a suburb of Detroit, before its merger with Illinois-based Sears, Roebuck in 2005....
...Just over two weeks later however, the relationship between Motorola and Mr Liska, a former finance chief of Sears, Roebuck, had soured with both sides trading increasingly acrimonious charges in the Chicago...
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...By the early 1900s Lehman was helping corporate American stalwarts Sears, Roebuck and F.W. Woolworth raise capital....
...In earnings news, Sears , the parent of retailers Kmart and Sears Roebuck, posted earnings of 83 cents a share excluding various items against a forecast of 98 cents....
...Mr Crittenden, who began his career with Bain & Company, the consultants, served as CFO of Monsanto and Sears Roebuck before joining American Express in 2000....
...A year later it used the debt as the vehicle to acquire department store rival Sears Roebuck for $11bn. Recently, however, Ashmore and hedge funds have been buying a company’s equity directly....
...Sears Holdings, created by last year’s $12bn merger of Kmart and Sears Roebuck, is the third biggest US retailer and one of the largest private employers in the US, with 380,000 employees....
...The outcome of the review process is also likely to hinge on whether the DoJ includes appliances that Whirlpool manufactures for the Kenmore brand, which is owned by Sears, in its analysis of Whirlpool’s...
...Same-store sales fell 11 per cent at Sears, Roebuck, with all products except appliances suffering. At K-Mart, sales dropped 2.8 per cent, hurt by weak performance in home goods....
...Roebuck by Kmart....
...Profits rose a mere 21 per cent in a decade, compared with 230 per cent growth at Sears, Roebuck & Co....
...The move follows the $11bn marriage of retailers Kmart and Sears, Roebuck orchestrated last November by hedge fund manager Edward S. Lampert. Hedge funds are now an 800lb gorilla in the market....
...Sears shares fell more than 12 per cent for the week, while Kmart shares rose 5.9 per cent over the four-day period....
...Sears Roebuck, the department store chain, on Tuesday announced details of a new “off-mall” store format that it says will spearhead growth following the completion of its $11bn merger with Kmart....
...Details of the deal, which follows Kmart's recently agreed $11.5bn bid for Sears Roebuck, were unveiled on Monday....
...In announcing their $11bn merger, executives at Kmart and Sears, Roebuck cheered the potential for Sears to improve sales by expanding into some of the stand-alone or off-mall locations occupied by Kmart...
...Mr Lampert will become chairman of Sears Holdings. Mr Lacy, who has run Sears for the past four years, will be chief executive....
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