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Tucked away in the mid-Michigan town of Frankenmuth is a place where it is Christmas allyear round. Sitting on 27 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds is an Alpine-style building spanning [...]

James Joseph Haverty founded the company and in 1929 took it public. It has paid a dividend to stockholders since 1935 and sales for 2004 increased slightly more than 5% [...]

Any company that's been in business for 56 years will likely have undergone a number of changes over the decades in order to keep abreast of trends and a changing [...]

Location Berlin, Germany Year Established 1907 Size of Store 7,000 square meters Owners Karstadtquelle Company Web Site www.feinschmeckeretage.de I recently visited the world-renowned gourmet floor of Berlin's KaDeWe, or Kaufhaus [...]

Diane McAlpin, owner of Party People/Costume Connection, talks about the success of her business and how she went from a 500-square-foot store to her current store ten times that size. The business carries a variety of merchandise to include; party goods, wedding supplies, balloons, costumes and much more.

ARKANSAS IS HOME TO A number of businesses in small owns or rural areas that have become 'destination' draws, attracting customers to their remote locations from far away. Most of [...]

Millman's Appliance Center was sold by Howard Millman to Gary Chorman. Since then, Chorman had expanded the store's sales capacity and provided quality service to customers by servicing the appliances that they sell. The store thrives and earns profits that are then reinvested into the business.

After 100 years in business, the future of Richardson's lies with a band of brothers. Richardson's Men's Wear and Shoes of Roseville, Calif., hit the one-century mark this year joining [...]

* Carphone Warehouse was founded in 1989 by Charles Dunstone in a London flat. * Within a year, the company opened its first shop nearby, and Dunstone was joined by […]

NEW YORK -- Like the ladies it often serves in the treasure trove that is its Park Avenue boutique, fine jewelry house Seaman Schepps has long preferred to play a [...]

NEW YORK -- Leslie Wexner, chairman and chief executive officer of Limited Brands, is ready to give the Henri Bendel division another shot at expansion. Bendel's operates just one store, [...]

In the Flower Power era of 1971, a bunch of University of British Columbia students, who'd rather have been playing outside, decided to start a business. They'd sell the kind [...]

1950 TAKING THE SHOW ON THE ROAD In Columbus, OH, a store owner came up with an unusual method for selling appliances. Instead of making people come to his store, [...]

Personalized service makes the difference Like many small-business owners, Dick Logan has had to roll with the changes to survive--and in his case, thrive. Logan is president of The Office [...]

35 YEARS AGO Stanley Warner Corp. acquired more than 95 percent of the outstanding shares of MorningstarPaisley, Inc, through the purchase of 43.8 percent of the stock From Celanese Corp. [...]

1985 First Blockbuster Video store opens in Dallas. 1986 At year-end, Blockbuster has 19 stores. 1987 Wayne Huizenga buys Blockbuster. Blockbuster headquarters moves from Dallas to Ft. Lauderdale. Year ends [...]

VD is five years old; that is, if you count February, 1997, when DVD players first went on the market in the U.S., as the birth date of DVD. Others [...]

THE GREAT MERCHANTS A BETTER SCHOLAR THAN A MERCHANT Simon Lazarus, who founded the first Lazarus store in Columbus, Ohio in the 1860s, was once described as 'a good man, [...]

The ten Jessops stores - nine in San Diego County and one in Costa Mesa - carry a similar selection of crystal, tabletop and fine gifts in their giftware sections. [...]

When Sniderman Radio Sales and Service Ltd. filed for bankruptcy on Oct. 30, almost certainly sealing the fate of Sam the Record Man, more than a few people got all [...]

Wally's Sports Center recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of Walter Prusak in the greater Cleveland area retail sporting good business. Prusak was previously employed at the former Champion Sporting Goods [...]

A veteran stamp collector's visit to the building on Nassau Street which once housed his stamp dealership prompts a reminiscence about the busy stamp collecting market of the 1930s. He describes the many stamp dealers whose operations were headquartered on Nassau Street, including certain peddlers., It has been a good many years since I revisited Nassau Street. Outwardly, there had been little change. The buildings have not been changed externally. Some are still condemned properties [...]

THE TEXANS IT'S AN ILL WIND . . . The killer hurricane of 1900, which washed away much of Galveston, Texas and ruined the Sakowitz family business, gave Tobias and [...]

THE MOUNTAINEERS VERMONT MAN GOES WEST . . . Astrong desire to succeed on his own terms, coupled with a love of retailing and a hatred of farming, motivated John [...]