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...At this moment in 1993, as my siblings and I stand before our 200-member Baptist church in the suburbs of Dallas, we are five girls, one boy. In the years to come, there will be two more boys....
...JCPenney this month opened a store with a “completely reimagined format” just outside Dallas....
...Stocks that are down in the period include Rite Aid, down 90 per cent, Signet Jewelers, down 65 per cent, and Sears, which filed for bankruptcy last October....
...Dallas-based Neiman originally filed plans for an IPO in August 2015, two years after it was acquired by private-equity firm Ares Management and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in a $6bn buyout....
...Shares in Sears were down 4.25 per cent to $39.01, extending the slide from last Friday. Lacklustre US sales also weighed on McDonald’s....
...At the same time mid-market department stores such as JC Penney and Sears have struggled in a crowded market....
...Dallas-based Southwest Airlines bought AirTran , which uses Atlanta as its main hub, for $1.4bn. Including AirTran’s debt and aircraft leases, the deal is valued at $3.4bn....
...The funds without independent administrators which it threatened to pull out of include DE Shaw and Millennium, as well as ESL Investments, run by Eddie Lampert, chairman of department store group Sears...
...The memo lists funds from ESL Investments, run by Eddie Lampert, chairman of Sears Holdings, the department store group; Renaissance Technologies, run by Jim Simons; Chicago’s Citadel, run by Ken Griffin...
...Sears estimated in 2003 that 40 per cent of its online customers picked up goods in-store – analysts say the Sears service has been most heavily used in its home-appliance business....
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