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...“[For] somebody that is of my generation, Sears Roebuck was a big deal,” he told reporters on Monday, discussing the “sad” news that the retailer had filed for bankruptcy protection....
...Arguably the “killer application” of the railroads, the mail order catalog of Sears-Roebuck, didn't arrive until the end of the century, as economist Brad DeLong has argued....
...Richard Sears started out in 1886 as a watch seller in Minneapolis before teaming up in Chicago with Alvah Roebuck to form one of America’s first mail order catalogue businesses, a venture that placed the...
...The tower built by Sears Roebuck in 1970 was controversially renamed in 2009 when insurer Willis rented three storeys of space and paid for the naming rights....
...GE was founded in 1892 and Sears Roebuck in 1893, at a time when the continent was altered by the telegraph and electricity....
...Default protection for Sears Roebuck Acceptance Corp, a unit that has the most liquidly traded credit default swaps contract in the Sears Holdings group, rose to a record on Thursday....
...Sears, the department store, has been in slow-motion decline for years....
...Examples are US retailers Sears Roebuck and Kmart. Both were founded in the late 19th century, and each was in turn the biggest retailer in the US....
...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....
...The most well-known home plans are arguably those that were first made available in 1908 by US retailer Sears Roebuck & Company....
...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...
...They had first got to know each other in the late 1980s in Chicago, where Mr Paulson headed Goldman Sachs’ regional office and Mr Liddy was chief financial officer of the retailer Sears, Roebuck....
...Sears Holdings was created in March 2005 from when Kmart, which Mr Lampert brought out of bankruptcy, bought Sears Roebuck, the veteran US department store chain....
...By the early 1900s Lehman was helping corporate American stalwarts Sears, Roebuck and F.W. Woolworth raise capital....
...Mr Lampert is best known for becoming Kmart’s largest shareholder after it emerged from bankruptcy thanks to a large position in its distressed bonds and then orchestrating the deal with Sears-Roebuck that...
...Mr Lampert, a former Goldman Sachs trader, took control of Sears, Roebuck, the venerable US retailer, in 2005 through a takeover by Kmart, where he became the largest shareholder after it emerged from bankruptcy...
...In 2005, he took control of Sears, Roebuck, the US retailer where he is now chairman, through a take-over by Kmart, where he became the largest shareholder after it emerged from bankruptcy....
...The 67-year-old American had already spent five years as chairman of Sears, Roebuck, the US retailer. Now he would spend his final years before retirement as chairman of one of Europe’s largest banks....
...Sears’ shares have been trading this month around $180, their highest level since Mr Lampert’s Kmart acquired Sears Roebuck in March last year. The shares fell over 4 per cent on the results, to $170.96...
...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....
...Those who wanted it, would buy a unit from Sears Roebuck and install it. But the unit was clumsy, and got in the way. Now, almost every car has air conditioning built in....
...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....
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