marshall fields department store
Yesterday, Federated Department Stores announced that all of the stores of Marshall Field’s, a Chicago institution for over a century and, with Wanamaker’s, one of the two creators of the concept of the department store in America, would be converted to Macy stores in 2006. [1]
Marshall Field’s was so many things on so many levels: world wide fashion and culinary trend setter; customer service leader; retail innovator; Chicago’s number three destination; an international name synonymous with Chicago at its very finest with something for everyone from the wealthy to the poor; and much more. [...] In these difficult times, it is clear that we need a return to the corporate values that the store at 111 N State St. embodies when it is run in quality, service, and name as Marshall Field’s. [2]
After cashing in its equity by selling off the State Street flagship - Field’s is now a renter - Target sold the chain to May Department Stores, which, in turn, was sold to Federated less than a year later. [1]
Marshall Field and Company at the intersection of Randolph, State and Washington Streets and Wabash Avenue in Chicago. [...] The late Louis C. Tiffany designed the Tiffany Mosaic Dome, in the South State Street Building, and it contains approximately 1,600,000 pieces. [3]
In talking with Marvin Traub, the man who transformed Bloomingdale’s from an also-ran to a fashion powerhouse, Gopnik touches on a fundamental truth that eludes both executives like Lundgren and the retailing “consultants” who make a comfortable living telling them what they want to hear. [1]
In 1865, Levi Leiter and Marshall Field bought an interest in Palmer’s store and it became known as Field, Palmer and Leiter until 1867 when Palmer sold his interest. [3]
Its fate was sealed the day the chain was sold to BATUS, a tobacco company, in 1982. [1]
Marshall Field & Company traces its antecedents to a dry goods store opened at 137 Lake Street in Chicago in 1852 by Potter Palmer, eponymously named P. Palmer & Co.. [4]
The best way to do this is not to shop at Macy’s until Field’s is revived. [2]
From its downtown Chicago beginnings in 1852, Marshall Field and Company blossomed into one of the most successful and innovative department stores in the country. [...] Marshall Field, who died in 1906, would see his company become the largest wholesale and retail dry goods enterprise in the world. [3]
BATUS dumped Fields four years later, selling it to Dayton-Hudson just as that company begin to morph into discount powerhouse Target, for whom its lingering residue of department stores soon became a troublesome and neglected distraction. [1]
Marshall Field & Company logo used before the BATUS acquisition in 1982. [4]
Sources:
[1] ArchitectureChicago Plus Blog Overrun - The Death of Marshall Fields …
[2] Chicago Wants Maarshall Field’s-Not Macy’s!
[3] Marshall Fields
[4] Marshall Field’s - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia