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JCPenney, American department store chain with 656 stores, focusing on lifestyle products for middle-class households
JCPenney, American department store chain with 656 stores, focusing on lifestyle products for middle-class households
James Cash Penney founded JCPenney as a group of dry goods stores he managed as part of the Golden Rule chain.
Callahan and Johnson dissolved their partnership, leading Penney to purchase full interest in all three store locations.
J. C. Penney Company was incorporated with William Henry McManus as a co-founder.
To improve buying, financing, and transportation of goods, J. C. Penney moved its headquarters to New York City.
J. C. Penney acquired The Crescent Corset Company, marking the company's first wholly owned subsidiary.
Big Mac work clothes, the company's oldest active private brand, was launched.
J. C. Penney opened its 500th store in Hamilton, Missouri, the hometown of James Cash Penney.
J. C. Penney opened its 1,000th store, reaching $190 million in gross business.
Sam Walton began his retail career at a J. C. Penney store in Des Moines, Iowa.
J. C. Penney started national advertising with a series of advertisements in Life magazine.
J. C. Penney first issued its own credit cards.
J. C. Penney dedicated its first full-line shopping-center department store at Black Horse Pike Center.
J. C. Penney entered discount merchandising with the acquisition of General Merchandise Company, which gave them The Treasury stores.
J. C. Penney opened stores in Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska.
J. C. Penney issued its first catalog and operated in-store catalog desks in eight states.
JCPenney opened a store in Honolulu, Hawaii.
JCPenney opened a store in Puerto Rico.
J. C. Penney acquired Thrift Drug, a chain of drugstores headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
J. C. Penney acquired Supermarkets Interstate, an Omaha-based food retailer.
The company adopted the JCPenney style in advertising, and its revenues reached $5 billion for the first time.
James Cash Penney died at the age of 95. The company's stores were closed the morning of his funeral on February 16.
JCPenney reached its peak number of stores, with 2,053 locations.
J. C. Penney sold its four stores in Italy to Italian department store chain La Rinascente.
J. C. Penney closed down their unprofitable Supermarkets Interstate supermarket brand which operated in Treasury discount stores; however, the stores that were not in Treasury locations remained open.
The J. C. Penney Historic District in Kemmerer, Wyoming, was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark.
JCPenney stores started accepting Visa cards.
The company closed the unprofitable Treasury discount stores to focus resources on its core retail stores.
JCPenney discontinued its appliance, hardware, outdoor equipment, and auto center departments, and sold its automotive centers to Firestone.
JCPenney began selling goods online through the Viewtron videotex service.
Fashion designer Roy Halston signed a six-year, $1 billion deal with JCPenney to sell a line of affordable clothing, accessories, cosmetics, and perfumes.
JCPenney acquired the First National Bank of Harrington, Delaware, and renamed it J. C. Penney National Bank.
JCPenney began accepting American Express cards.
JCPenney announced that it was moving its headquarters to Plano, Texas.
The JCPenney Television Shopping Channel appeared on cable systems.
Construction on the new company headquarters in Plano, Texas, broke ground.
Construction on the new company headquarters in Plano, Texas, was completed.
JCPenney became the largest catalog retailer in the United States after Sears closed its catalog business.
JCPenney expanded to Chile with a store in Santiago.
JCPenney expanded its drug store business with the acquisition of Kerr Drug.
JCPenney expanded its drug store business with the purchase of Fay's Drug.
JCPenney acquired the Eckerd chain, merging Fay's, Kerr, and Thrift drug stores into J. C. Penney's drug store subsidiary Thrift Drug.
Fay's, most Kerr, and Thrift drug stores were re-branded Eckerd.
JCPenney launched its online store.
JCPenney would acquire controlling interest of Lojas Renner for a little over $33 million.
JCPenney left Chile, closing its home store and selling its main store in Santiago to Almacenes Paris.
JCPenney closed 44 under-performing stores.
JCPenney sold its direct-marketing insurance unit to Dutch insurer Aegon for $1.3 billion in cash.
JCPenney opened three stores in strip centers in Texas, Minnesota, and Indiana.
JCPenney exited the drug store division after 35 years, with the sale of its Eckerd division.
JCPenney sold its six Mexico stores to Grupo Carso, which rebranded five of the stores as Dorian's and the other one as Sears Mexico.
JCPenney's e-commerce storefront exceeded the $1 billion revenue mark for the first time.
JCPenney sold off its shares of Lojas Renner, generating $260 million from the sale.
JCPenney launched the Ambrielle lingerie label.
JCPenney re-introduced cosmetics with the opening of Sephora "stores-within-a-store" inside some JCPenney locations.
JCPenney's store slogan changed from "It's All Inside" to "Every Day Matters."
JCPenney launched a new public website, JCPenneyBrands.com, which covers the company's private and exclusive brands and its branding strategy, as well as a preview of an upcoming product line.
JCPenney added a new brand to its home collection, Linden Street.
JCPenney launched the American Living brand, as developed by Ralph Lauren, across several product lines.
JCPenney reached an agreement with Seattle's Best Coffee to feature full-service cafes within leased departments inside JCPenney stores across the country.
Albert Gonzalez's defense lawyer announced JCPenney was a victim of a computer hacker, although the company stated that no customers' credit card information had been stolen.
Vornado Realty Trust acquired a 9.9% stake in JCPenney.
JCPenney shut down its catalog business and 19 outlet stores.
The New York Times revealed that JCPenney was using "spamdexing" techniques to manipulate Google search rankings.
Ron Johnson, former head of Apple's retail division, became JCPenney's CEO.
JCPenney purchased a 16.6% stake in Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, intending to create "mini-Martha Stewart shops" in its stores by 2013.
JCPenney implemented a new pricing strategy, replacing sales with "Every Day" prices, but saw a 22% sales decline by mid-year.
Vornado Realty Trust sold its 9.9% stake in JCPenney for $13.00 per share.
Ron Johnson was dismissed and replaced by former CEO Mike Ullman.
JCPenney announced that it was liquidating its The Foundry Big & Tall Supply Co. chain of standalone clothing stores.
JCPenney announced that it would close 39 under-performing stores nationwide and lay off 2,250 employees.
JCPenney announced plans to relaunch its business of selling major appliances.
JCPenney opened a support center in Bangalore, India.
JCPenney sold its headquarters campus and surrounding land in Plano, Texas, to Dreien Opportunity Partners as a leaseback sale.
JCPenney announced that it would shutter two distribution centers and up to 140 under-performing stores.
JCPenney released a list of 138 locations that would close by the end of June.
The JCPenney at Plaza Palma Real in Humacao, Puerto Rico closed permanently, after Hurricane Maria devastated the store in September 2017.
JCPenney announced the resignation of their CEO, Marvin Ellison.
JCPenney announced Jill Soltau as their CEO, effective October 15.
The stock price of JCPenney fell below $1 per share for the first time in the company's 110-year history.
JCPenney said it would stop selling major appliances on February 28, and that furniture would be limited to online and stores in Puerto Rico.
JCPenney announced its intent to close 27 stores in 2019, including 18 full-line department stores and nine home-and-furniture stores.
JCPenney announced the hiring of Bill Wofford as chief financial officer.
JCPenney announced that Shawn Gensch would be the chief customer officer, to take effect on June 3.
JCPenney announced a net sales decline of 5.6% and a net loss of $154 million for its fiscal first quarter of 2019, which ended on May 5.
JCPenney closed all of its stores and furloughed its employees due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
JCPenney announced all retail stores would temporarily close in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic until April 2.
JCPenney announced a limited number of stores would reopen.
JCPenney filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced that there would be an additional 242 store closings, blaming the COVID-19 pandemic for its action.
JCPenney was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange.
Brookfield Property Partners and Simon Property Group agreed to purchase JCPenney for about $800 million.
The company permanently vacated its headquarters offices in Plano, Texas.
The court approved the purchase of JCPenney by Brookfield Property Partners and Simon Property Group.
Jill Soltau stepped down as CEO of JCPenney.
Marc Rosen became CEO of JCPenney.
Stanley Shashoua replaced Jill Soltau as CEO of JCPenney.
JCPenney opened 10 new shop-in-shop locations across the US, featuring a wide variety of brands, including indie and BIPOC brands, among them flagship partner Thirteen Lune.
JCPenney's owners—Simon and Brookfield—offered $8.6 billion to purchase Kohl's.
JCPenney returned to its Plano, Texas, headquarters.
JCPenney, American department store chain with 656 stores, focusing on lifestyle products for middle-class households
James Cash Penney founded JCPenney as a group of dry goods stores he managed as part of the Golden Rule chain.
Callahan and Johnson dissolved their partnership, leading Penney to purchase full interest in all three store locations.
J. C. Penney Company was incorporated with William Henry McManus as a co-founder.
To improve buying, financing, and transportation of goods, J. C. Penney moved its headquarters to New York City.
J. C. Penney acquired The Crescent Corset Company, marking the company's first wholly owned subsidiary.
Big Mac work clothes, the company's oldest active private brand, was launched.
J. C. Penney opened its 500th store in Hamilton, Missouri, the hometown of James Cash Penney.
J. C. Penney opened its 1,000th store, reaching $190 million in gross business.
Sam Walton began his retail career at a J. C. Penney store in Des Moines, Iowa.
J. C. Penney started national advertising with a series of advertisements in Life magazine.
J. C. Penney first issued its own credit cards.
J. C. Penney dedicated its first full-line shopping-center department store at Black Horse Pike Center.
J. C. Penney entered discount merchandising with the acquisition of General Merchandise Company, which gave them The Treasury stores.
J. C. Penney opened stores in Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska.
J. C. Penney issued its first catalog and operated in-store catalog desks in eight states.
JCPenney opened a store in Honolulu, Hawaii.
JCPenney opened a store in Puerto Rico.
J. C. Penney acquired Thrift Drug, a chain of drugstores headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
J. C. Penney acquired Supermarkets Interstate, an Omaha-based food retailer.
The company adopted the JCPenney style in advertising, and its revenues reached $5 billion for the first time.
James Cash Penney died at the age of 95. The company's stores were closed the morning of his funeral on February 16.
JCPenney reached its peak number of stores, with 2,053 locations.
J. C. Penney sold its four stores in Italy to Italian department store chain La Rinascente.
J. C. Penney closed down their unprofitable Supermarkets Interstate supermarket brand which operated in Treasury discount stores; however, the stores that were not in Treasury locations remained open.
The J. C. Penney Historic District in Kemmerer, Wyoming, was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark.
JCPenney stores started accepting Visa cards.
The company closed the unprofitable Treasury discount stores to focus resources on its core retail stores.
JCPenney discontinued its appliance, hardware, outdoor equipment, and auto center departments, and sold its automotive centers to Firestone.
JCPenney began selling goods online through the Viewtron videotex service.
Fashion designer Roy Halston signed a six-year, $1 billion deal with JCPenney to sell a line of affordable clothing, accessories, cosmetics, and perfumes.
JCPenney acquired the First National Bank of Harrington, Delaware, and renamed it J. C. Penney National Bank.
JCPenney began accepting American Express cards.
JCPenney announced that it was moving its headquarters to Plano, Texas.
The JCPenney Television Shopping Channel appeared on cable systems.
Construction on the new company headquarters in Plano, Texas, broke ground.
Construction on the new company headquarters in Plano, Texas, was completed.
JCPenney became the largest catalog retailer in the United States after Sears closed its catalog business.
JCPenney expanded to Chile with a store in Santiago.
JCPenney expanded its drug store business with the acquisition of Kerr Drug.
JCPenney expanded its drug store business with the purchase of Fay's Drug.
JCPenney acquired the Eckerd chain, merging Fay's, Kerr, and Thrift drug stores into J. C. Penney's drug store subsidiary Thrift Drug.
Fay's, most Kerr, and Thrift drug stores were re-branded Eckerd.
JCPenney launched its online store.
JCPenney would acquire controlling interest of Lojas Renner for a little over $33 million.
JCPenney left Chile, closing its home store and selling its main store in Santiago to Almacenes Paris.
JCPenney closed 44 under-performing stores.
JCPenney sold its direct-marketing insurance unit to Dutch insurer Aegon for $1.3 billion in cash.
JCPenney opened three stores in strip centers in Texas, Minnesota, and Indiana.
JCPenney exited the drug store division after 35 years, with the sale of its Eckerd division.
JCPenney sold its six Mexico stores to Grupo Carso, which rebranded five of the stores as Dorian's and the other one as Sears Mexico.
JCPenney's e-commerce storefront exceeded the $1 billion revenue mark for the first time.
JCPenney sold off its shares of Lojas Renner, generating $260 million from the sale.
JCPenney launched the Ambrielle lingerie label.
JCPenney re-introduced cosmetics with the opening of Sephora "stores-within-a-store" inside some JCPenney locations.
JCPenney's store slogan changed from "It's All Inside" to "Every Day Matters."
JCPenney launched a new public website, JCPenneyBrands.com, which covers the company's private and exclusive brands and its branding strategy, as well as a preview of an upcoming product line.
JCPenney added a new brand to its home collection, Linden Street.
JCPenney launched the American Living brand, as developed by Ralph Lauren, across several product lines.
JCPenney reached an agreement with Seattle's Best Coffee to feature full-service cafes within leased departments inside JCPenney stores across the country.
Albert Gonzalez's defense lawyer announced JCPenney was a victim of a computer hacker, although the company stated that no customers' credit card information had been stolen.
Vornado Realty Trust acquired a 9.9% stake in JCPenney.
JCPenney shut down its catalog business and 19 outlet stores.
The New York Times revealed that JCPenney was using "spamdexing" techniques to manipulate Google search rankings.
Ron Johnson, former head of Apple's retail division, became JCPenney's CEO.
JCPenney purchased a 16.6% stake in Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, intending to create "mini-Martha Stewart shops" in its stores by 2013.
JCPenney implemented a new pricing strategy, replacing sales with "Every Day" prices, but saw a 22% sales decline by mid-year.
Vornado Realty Trust sold its 9.9% stake in JCPenney for $13.00 per share.
Ron Johnson was dismissed and replaced by former CEO Mike Ullman.
JCPenney announced that it was liquidating its The Foundry Big & Tall Supply Co. chain of standalone clothing stores.
JCPenney announced that it would close 39 under-performing stores nationwide and lay off 2,250 employees.
JCPenney announced plans to relaunch its business of selling major appliances.
JCPenney opened a support center in Bangalore, India.
JCPenney sold its headquarters campus and surrounding land in Plano, Texas, to Dreien Opportunity Partners as a leaseback sale.
JCPenney announced that it would shutter two distribution centers and up to 140 under-performing stores.
JCPenney released a list of 138 locations that would close by the end of June.
The JCPenney at Plaza Palma Real in Humacao, Puerto Rico closed permanently, after Hurricane Maria devastated the store in September 2017.
JCPenney announced the resignation of their CEO, Marvin Ellison.
JCPenney announced Jill Soltau as their CEO, effective October 15.
The stock price of JCPenney fell below $1 per share for the first time in the company's 110-year history.
JCPenney said it would stop selling major appliances on February 28, and that furniture would be limited to online and stores in Puerto Rico.
JCPenney announced its intent to close 27 stores in 2019, including 18 full-line department stores and nine home-and-furniture stores.
JCPenney announced the hiring of Bill Wofford as chief financial officer.
JCPenney announced that Shawn Gensch would be the chief customer officer, to take effect on June 3.
JCPenney announced a net sales decline of 5.6% and a net loss of $154 million for its fiscal first quarter of 2019, which ended on May 5.
JCPenney closed all of its stores and furloughed its employees due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
JCPenney announced all retail stores would temporarily close in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic until April 2.
JCPenney announced a limited number of stores would reopen.
JCPenney filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced that there would be an additional 242 store closings, blaming the COVID-19 pandemic for its action.
JCPenney was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange.
Brookfield Property Partners and Simon Property Group agreed to purchase JCPenney for about $800 million.
The company permanently vacated its headquarters offices in Plano, Texas.
The court approved the purchase of JCPenney by Brookfield Property Partners and Simon Property Group.
Jill Soltau stepped down as CEO of JCPenney.
Marc Rosen became CEO of JCPenney.
Stanley Shashoua replaced Jill Soltau as CEO of JCPenney.
JCPenney opened 10 new shop-in-shop locations across the US, featuring a wide variety of brands, including indie and BIPOC brands, among them flagship partner Thirteen Lune.
JCPenney's owners—Simon and Brookfield—offered $8.6 billion to purchase Kohl's.
JCPenney returned to its Plano, Texas, headquarters.
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