In , the company added 14 more stores and exited the drug store division after 35 years, with the sale of its Eckerd division. Penney locations. After Rite Aid finalized its acquisition of Eckerd in , the Catalog Centers inside the soon-to-be-converted stores permanently closed, although as a result of the acquisition, Rite Aid now accepts JCPenney credit cards, even at Rite Aid locations that existed before the takeover of Eckerd. American Living for infant apparel was launched in July In the summer of , J.
Linden Street is sold exclusively in JCPenney stores and through their website. Fans of JCPenney on Facebook can help decide which school will receive the next million dollars. On January 24, , JCPenney announced it would exit the catalog business and close all 19 of its catalog outlet stores. An additional seven stores, two call center facilities, and one customer decorating facility would also be closed. Although the retailer denied any involvement, it fired its search engine consulting firm, SearchDex.
On December 7, , JCPenney announced the acquisition of Prices would also not end in 9 or 7, instead using whole figures when pricing items. The changes in the stores include a focus on the mini-stores such as those for Martha Stewart products. In July , the company announced that it was laying off more workers at its headquarters. The shops are described as stores-within-a-store, planning to eventually roll out shops in stores. Fourth quarter sales for JCPenney, in , were poor.
Sales were off Strategic choices made by Johnson a year earlier, including the change in pricing strategy, were being called into question. Wooster stated in an interview with Esquire magazine that his influence on the brand would begin with spring menswear available as of February In August , William A. In his statement, Ackman stated:. During my time on the JCPenney Board of Directors, I have always advocated for what I believe to be in the best interests of the Company—its stockholders, employees and others.
At this time, I believe that the addition of two new directors and my stepping down from the Board is the most constructive way forward for JCPenney and all other parties involved. On September 26, , JCPenney, with Goldman Sachs as the sole underwriter, announced plans to issue 84 million shares of its stock. On December 1, , J. On January 15, , J. Penney announced it is closing 33 underperforming stores and laying off 2, employees. In the later parts of , Soros Fund Management sold away over 19 million shares… after only owning them for a few months, originally purchasing them in April Meanwhile, J.
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JC Penney. Their marriage lasted until his death in Throughout his life, Penney acted in ways that were useful and productive. Penney wanted to improve the livestock. That dairy herd, the Foremost Guernsey Association herd, was given to the University of Missouri in On it he established a purebred Aberdeen Angus herd. In addition to establishing farms for cattle, Penney built a residential community for retired clergy. In he set up the J. Penney Foundation. This foundation still supports organizations that address important issues such as community renewal, the environment, and world peace.
In the last decades of his life, Penney was a popular speaker and a respected author. Although Penney was not a college graduate, he received honorary degrees from a variety of colleges and universities, including the University of Missouri and Stephens College, both in Columbia. He is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. On April 14, , the J. Penney Company celebrated one hundred years in business. The following is a selected list of books, articles, and manuscripts about J.
The Society is not responsible for the content of the following websites:. Skip to content. Penney's Marriages. She and Penney had one son, Kimball. For more information about J. February 24, Booth, Bertha.
April 7, 14, and 28, Penney Memorial Library and Museum. April 7, Penney, 95, Dies Following December Fall. February 17, April 17, Penney Dead. Louis Post-Dispatch. February 15, Lastelic, Joe. Penney Alert to Changes. June 27, May 15, Books and Articles American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press.
Foley, Gary R. Kremer, and Kenneth H. Winn, eds. To continue expanding the credit policies of the company, JCPenney began accepting Visa in ; MasterCard was accepted the next year. The company closed the Treasury discount stores in because they were unprofitable and decided to focus resources on its JCPenney stores. It also reorganized its executive structure around the office of the chairman.
Seibert remained chairman, Neppl moved to the new vice chairmanship, and William Howell was made an executive vice president. With these officers in place, the company launched a massive reorganization to transform the company from a mass merchant into a national department store. It would take almost a decade to achieve the goals outlined in the JCPenney stores positioning statement, issued in The company's first order of business was to expand the fashion programs in men's, women's and children's departments, and the company divided its stores into two categories, metropolitan based in regional shopping centers and geographic based in smaller communities.
A sixth catalog distribution center was also opened in , in Manchester, Connecticut. Atlanta was only the beginning. Apparel, home furnishings, and leisure lines would be emphasized, and auto service, hard line appliances, paint, hardware, lawn and garden merchandise, and fabrics were phased out.
Its big mass merchant competitors, Montgomery Ward and Sears, continued in these lines. Retail analysts who followed JCPenney called the company's decision difficult but necessary. In addition, low-margin goods were preventing the company from making its profit potential.
In Howell, who most recently held a vice chairmanship along with David R. Gill, who'd started with the company back in , was elected the sixth chairman of the board, and David Miller was named president. The company also introduced a communications system for broadcasting directly to its stores using satellite transmissions from headquarters.
Merchandise buyers from the home office could show store managers, salespeople, and local buyers what merchandise was available, and the local employees could help select what goods would likely sell in their stores. This gave the company the cost-saving advantages of being centralized, but also allowed it to be sensitive to fashion and seasonal preferences in local markets. Thrift Drug, long dormant since JCPenney purchased it, scored some big points in , when several major industrial companies became mail-order pharmacy customers.
Penney National Bank, to assist in credit and financial services. In JCPenney acquired Units, a chain of stores selling contemporary knitwear and by the next year the company was well on its way to achieving the goals it set forth in JCPenney's president, David Miller, added vice chairman and COO to his titles, and the company began focusing on four major merchandising groups by dividing them into separate business divisions: women's, men's, children's, and home and leisure.
By the end of , there were 1, JCPenney stores dotting the country, about to undergo a major change. In the company discontinued sales of home electronics, hard sporting goods, and photo equipment in its stores. The space that became available was then used for women's apparel.
Also in the late s, JCPenney opened freestanding furniture stores, called Portfolio, on an experimental basis. The company's five regional operations were narrowed to four in to make communication between merchandising divisions and stores easier. With its new stance as a national department store focusing on apparel, the company had benefitted from its prime regional shopping center space, the most such space of all U.
Shoppers at regional malls were there to buy clothes and accessories, not washing machines and paint, and JCPenney was poised to take better advantage of these spending habits. In JCPenney was named the U. The next year, the full brunt of the recession and the Gulf War hit consumers and JCPenney rather hard.
To the relief of shareholders and management alike, JCPenney rebounded in while celebrating its 90th anniversary. Further, James E. Oesterreicher was named president and Gill retired after 39 years with the company. JCPenney's continued concentration on women--who accounted for 80 percent of apparel sales and on whose behalf each store now allocated up to 41 percent of its space--was paying off.
Coupled with a "contemporary and fashion-forward environment," sales rose substantially in and , due to a revitalized Worthington career collection and the debut and ongoing success of new bath and body products.
A hip redesign of the Plain Pockets line, Arizona quickly eclipsed JCPenney's expectations, prompting a slew of additional designs in different sizes and colors. The next year, , JCPenney was still riding the crest of its Arizona wave and introduced Little Arizona denimwear for toddlers.
The continued hoopla over the brand's success had even prompted longtime rival Sears to jump into the proprietary denim fray with its own line, Canyon River Blues.
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