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...operation in the nation. Sales in 1973 amounted to $4.63 billion and in creased 24% hi the first quarter of 1974. Kresge Chairman and Chief Executive Robert E. Dewar wants to lift sales to $12 billion by 1980 and leave current front runners J.C. Penney (No. 2) and Sears, Roebuck (No. 1) far behind...
...Items. That trend is not all bad for retailers. Mail-order sales of Sears, Roebuck, Montgomery Ward and other catalogue houses are surging as more energy-conscious shoppers let their fingers do the traveling. Some store chains report that their long-languishing downtown branches are jammed with customers unwilling to motor to far-flung suburban shopping centers. Department stores report strong sales of books, games, television sets and other aids to a quiet evening at home. Other hot items include furniture, household hardware, seeds and garden supplies, and backyard swimming pools. "People are paying more attention to their homes," explains...
Harvard will consider identical equal employment information resolutions directed at General Electric, IBM, Ford, Sears-Roebuck, Xerox and General Motors...
...claimed Sperry Rand Corp., a response to the feminist movement but simply a good business decision to add Economist Norma Pace, 50, to its board of directors early this month. That seems obvious. A consultant specializing in business and economic forecasting for such firms as General Motors, Sears, Roebuck, and General Electric, slender and risk Mrs. Pace had developed a novel early warning system for detecting economic change, based on such factors as population patterns, consumer spending and political trends. She is also, it happens, an attractive and quite feminine executive...
...Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, New Jersey and Rhode Island all ordered driving speeds for state-owned vehicles held to 50 m.p.h. Companies also took steps toward conservation. The Coca-Cola Co. shut off all lighted outdoor advertising signs and urged independent bottlers in 50 cities to follow its lead. Sears, Roebuck & Co. ordered temperatures in its stores lowered to 68° and eliminated all Christmas lighting...