Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opposed to the bill were representatives of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, who claimed that it would not limit protection only to original designs, but would make U. S. merchants liable to infringement charges on every household necessity, on every garment sold...
...store that bears his name. Now, in Seattle, the $12,000,000-a-year Frederick A. Nelson store is owned by Marshall Field & Co. The new $25,000,000 Merchandise Mart building in Chicago is Marshall Field owned, as is Chicago's Davis Department Store. Marshall Field has retail branches around Chicago, a wholesale branch in Manhattan, 25 mills and many factories scattered throughout the country. Yet it is none of these things that has been Chicago's pride, but rather the claim to being the world's largest retail business under one roof-only a claim...
Because Marshall Field & Co. has always been a closed corporation, its retail business has largely been a matter of estimate, but gross sales (wholesale and retail) amounted last year to slightly more than $175,000,000. But last week Marshall Field & Co., following the lead of many another closed corporation, decided to let a portion of its stock pass to the public. Of 2,000,000 shares authorized, 1,400,000 are to be outstanding of which 540,000 were offered at $50 last week by Field, Glore & Co. and Lee, Higginson & Co. The remainder will be exchanged for present...
...request of the National Retail Dry Goods Association the Harvard Bureau of Business Research is continuing its analysis of department store operating costs to cover the year 1929. To aid in this study department and specialty stores throughout the United States have been asked to submit their operating figures for the past year...
...bulletin presenting the results of the study, together with a confidential report of the firm's own operating figures expressed as percentages of net sales. It costs the firm nothing to join in this research inasmuch as the expense of the study is being defrayed by the National Retail Dry Goods Association. All figures received at the Bureau are held in strict confidence and the names of firms assisting in this research will never be revealed...