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Gamble-Skogmo was a diversified retail company founded in 1920 by Bertin Gamble and Philip Skogmo. It operated or franchised various chains of hardware, clothing, furniture, grocery, drug, and mail-order stores in the US and Canada until 1984.
Wickes Companies was a diversified manufacturing and retail conglomerate that renamed itself after its subsidiary Collins & Aikman in 1992. It ceased operations in 2007 after filing for bankruptcy and selling or closing many of its businesses.
Aldens was a private company that sold fashion apparel and accessories via its catalog and retail stores from 1889 to 1985. It was founded by Benjamin J. Rosenthal in Chicago and expanded through acquisitions and innovations in the mail-order industry.
Buckeye Mart (Columbus, Ohio) owned by Gamble-Skogmo, Inc.; Columbus stores closed in the mid-1970s; Remaining Ohio stores along with Tempo stores in Michigan were sold to Fisher's Big Wheel Stores and renamed Fisher's Buckeye Tempo.
In 1978, the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based retailer Gamble-Skogmo, Inc. purchased a 20-percent share of the Garfinckel conglomerate from the Joseph R. Harris family, thereby gaining a controlling interest in it. A court suit resulted in an agreement that Gamble-Skogmo would not acquire any more stock in Garfinckel.
The department store chain was sold in 1968 to Gamble-Skogmo Inc., which continued to operate the stores. [3] Gamble-Skogmo was sold to Wickes Companies in 1980. [4] Wickes filed for bankruptcy in 1982, and the J.M. McDonald stores were liquidated by the end of 1983 as part of Wickes' restructuring. [5] [6]
Gamble-Skogmo purchased a 20-percent share from the Joseph R. Harris family, thereby gaining a controlling interest in the conglomerate. A court suit resulted in an agreement that Gamble-Skogmo would not acquire any more stock in Garfinckel.
Red Owl was a grocery store chain in the United States, founded in 1922 and owned by General Mills and Gamble-Skogmo. It operated in several states until 1988, when Supervalu acquired its rights and phased it out.