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Principally a men's clothier, by the mid-1950s some stores also carried women's clothing and later became known as "family apparel centers." In 1956, the chain operated nearly 100 outlets from coast to coast in principal cities, in addition to more than 50 agency stores that sold goods in smaller communities. [ 6 ]
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area. By the 1890s, the railroad capital behind the ...
South Water Market is a historic produce market in the Lower West Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.Completed in 1925, the complex was designed as a structured replacement to Chicago's sprawling downtown produce markets on South Water Street; while these markets had existed since the mid-19th century, they had become a traffic and sanitation problem.
Kay Musical Instrument Company. Kay Musical Instrument Company (often referred to simply as Kay) is an American musical instrument manufacturer established in 1931 by namesake Henry "Kay" Kuhrmeyer and based in Chicago, Illinois. It was formed when Kuhrmeyer bought out his financial backers in the instrument manufacturer Stromberg-Voisinet.
In 1944, they began to develop a retail network primarily in the Midwest (which eventually expanded to 16 stores by 1959). [2] In 1947, the company was the fourth-largest mail-order distributor in the United States with $79.2 million in sales and changed its name to Aldens, Inc. [2] In 1957, sales were $102.4 million, they had 4,795 employees ...
By 1910, the company employed close to 2,000 men and women at shops in and around Chicago. [1] In 1912, Louis became vice-president of the company. [4] In 1920, Albert Kuppenheimer retired from the company. He died in California in 1931 at the age of 64 although his residence in Chicago was the Drake Hotel. [5]
Kraft Foods Inc. (/ ˈ k r æ f t /) was a multinational confectionery, food and beverage conglomerate. [4] It marketed many brands in more than 170 countries. Twelve of its brands annually earned more than $1 billion worldwide: Cadbury, Jacobs, Kraft, LU, Maxwell House, Milka, Nabisco, Oreo, Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia, Trident, and Tang. [5]
Founded. March 9, 1893. Defunct. 1981. Headquarters. 200 E 5th Ave, Naperville, IL 60563. Kroehler /ˈkreɪlə/[ 1] Manufacturing Company was a furniture company and was originally incorporated as the Naperville Lounge Company, on March 9, 1893. [ 2] It was founded by ten original stockholders. In 1896, Peter Kroehler, an employee, offered to ...