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BP Canada — Convenience store; Bi-Way — discount clothing store chain; Blockbuster Video — Canadian unit of US-based video rental shop chain; The Book Room — At the time of its closing in 2008, it was the oldest bookstore in Canada. Bed Bath &- Beyond Canada — Bath & furniture store; Buy Buy Baby Canada — Baby store; Central ...
Sears Canada Inc. was a publicly-traded Canadian company affiliated with the American-based Sears department store chain. In operation from 1952 until January 14, 2018, and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, the company began as Simpsons-Sears—a joint venture between the Canadian Simpsons department store chain and the American Sears chain—which operated a national mail order business and ...
Just for Feet – bankrupt in 1999, acquired by Footstar, final stores closed in 2004. MC Sports – filed for bankruptcy and closed in 2017. Modell's Sporting Goods – first store opened in 1889. On March 11, 2020, the company filed for bankruptcy, and announced it would close all 115 stores.
Sears Holdings owned 51 percent of Sears Canada, a large department store chain in Canada similar to the U.S. stores. At one point it owned as much as 92% of the Canadian company, but it failed in 2006 to buy the remainder of Sears Canada that it did not own because Bill Ackman took a 17.3 percent stake in it and prevented any takeover. He ...
The Hudson's Bay Company ( HBC; French: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, it became the largest and oldest corporation in Canada, and now owns and operates retail stores across the country. [3] [4] The company's namesake business division is Hudson's Bay ...
Shoshy Ciment. Sears is closing 26 more Sears and Kmart stores in the US in October, a press release from the retailers' parent company said on Tuesday. Included in the closures are 21 Sears and ...
Kmart Australia was born out of a joint venture between G.J. Coles & Coy Limited (Coles) and the S.S. Kresge Company (Kresge), with Kresge owning 51% of the common stock in the company and the remaining 49% being owned by Coles. The first New Zealand store opened in Henderson, a suburb of Auckland, in 1988. [190]
Closed in 2023. Bed Bath & Beyond is an American big-box retail chain specializing in housewares, furniture, and specialty items. Headquartered in Union, New Jersey, the chain operates stores in the United States and Canada, and was once counted among the Fortune 500 and the Forbes Global 2000.