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...It all started with Sears. At the end of the 19th century, Chicago-based Sears, Roebuck & Co’s catalogue was a monster, a doorstop manifesto of capitalism geared to homesteaders and smallholders....
...Twenty-five years ago, you might have thought a portfolio containing shares in General Electric and General Motors, ICI, Marks and Spencer, Barclays Bank and Sears Roebuck represented a low-risk, conservative...
...“It has so much more texture, movement and soul than industrialised, machine loom cotton,” says the studio’s co-director Karen Sear Shimali....
...Harry Keogh, a Coutts & Co banker, has resigned with immediate effect following allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards female co-workers, the Wall Street Journal reported....
...From Sears, Roebuck and Company to Union Pacific, the business world is littered with titans that were ground under by the march of time. The same will happen to the owners of artificial intelligence....
...GE was founded in 1892 and Sears Roebuck in 1893, at a time when the continent was altered by the telegraph and electricity....
...Instead, it was the lower end of the market – with the kit houses of Sears, Roebuck and Company in the US, and the emergency prefab housing created in postwar Britain during the 1940s – that prevailed, establishing...
...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....
...In the old days, Mr Riedel says, the word was that FBI agents shopped at Sears & Roebuck – whose cheap suits went with a down-to-earth image of hunting down criminals – while DIA staff wore uniforms and...
...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....
...Sears Holdings, the US retailer created from the takeover of Sears Roebuck by Kmart, on Tuesday swung to a net loss in the first quarter as the group was hit by weaker sales and merger costs....
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