Word: kaufmann
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...much is this store worth?" . . . "About $16,000,000 a year." . . . "Here's my check. Wrap the place up. Ill take it home with me." Just this, with a little more formality, is what Gimbel Bros, (of New York, Philadelphia and Milwaukee) did last week to the Kaufmann & Baer Co., one of the biggest department stores in Pittsburgh, whose business last year amounted to more than $16,000,000. After a conference in Philadelphia which ended at 4 o'clock in the morning, they signed papers which gave them 100% stock ownership...
...Kaufmann & Baer's, the air is not fetid. In Kaufmann & Baer's, the voices are as cultured as it is possible for department store voices to be. The store has 17 display windows on two main thoroughfares, 19 elevators, a complete escalator system running up and down from the street to the seventh floor. It employs 2,000 people. Within a few minutes' walk of the main building is a large new seven-story warehouse. On the roof of the main store is a radio broadcasting station, WCAE. This is the third national broadcasting station operated...
...York. In April, 1923, they acquired the entire capital stock of Saks & Co., which gave them title to the Saks Fifth Avenue and Herald Square stores. A month ago they bought the 18-story Cuyler Building on 32nd St., Manhattan, opposite their Herald Square business seat. With Kaufmann & Baer, they now own a chain of six huge department stores, which means increasing prosperity for the officers of the company, all sons or grandsons of Adam; Charles Gimbel, Chairman and Vice President; Isaac Gimbel, President; Richard Gimbel, Secretary; E. A. Gimbel, Treasurer; Daniel...