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Edward Scott Lampert (born July 19, 1962) [2] is an American billionaire businessman. He is the former chief executive and chairman of Sears Holdings, the founder of Transformco, and the founder, chairman, and chief executive of ESL Investments. Until May 2007, he was a director of AutoNation. [3] He was a director of AutoZone from 1999 to 2006 ...
Sears Holdings Corporation was an American holding company headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. It was the parent company of the chain stores Kmart and Sears and was founded after the former purchased the latter in 2005. [7] It was the 20th-largest retailing company in the United States in 2015. [8] It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 15, 2018, and sold its assets to ESL ...
Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( / sɪərz / SEERZ ), [5] commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail ordering catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. [6] In 2005, the company was ...
Sears laid off 130 employees at its corporate offices on Thursday as the company struggles to stay afloat following a dismal holiday quarter.
Eddie Lampert sent an email to Sears employees on Monday announcing the company's bankruptcy filing.
Over the last two years, CEO Eddie Lampert and his hedge fund have loaned Sears close to $2 billion to keep the business in operation,
Arthur C. Martinez (born September 25, 1939) is an American businessman and executive who formerly served as chief executive officer (CEO) of Sears. He is best known as the person who led a turnaround of Sears, Roebuck, and Company in the 1990s.
Edward Brennan was born in Chicago into a family of Sears associates: his grandfather, father and uncles all worked there, [1] and his younger brother, Bernard F. Brennan, left Sears for the rival Chicago-based retailer Montgomery Ward and became its CEO in 1985.