Update department.Shoppers wondering what changes are ahead for Robinsons-May department stores This is a list of department stores. In the case of department store groups the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. with the merger of Federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. Department Stores Inc. and May Department Stores The May Department Stores Company was a department store chain founded in 1877 by David May in Leadville, Colorado. Its headquarters moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1905, and the company went public in 1911. Co. shouldn't hold their breath. While the boards of both companies have approved Federated's $17 billion bid for St. Louis-based May, stockholders must still sign off on the deal in scheduled votes later this month. Along with Federal Trade Commission review, it will likely be late in the year before the merger is given final approval--and not until after the holiday season before it's apparent in stores. "It is going to take time," said Walter Loeb, a retail analyst with Loeb Associates. Federated, based in Cincinnati, is expected to make over much of May's portfolio, which includes 49 Robinsons-May stores in California, as well as Marshall Field's Marshall Field's was an iconic Chicago, Illinois, department store that grew to become a major chain before being acquired by Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores on August 30, 2005. , Hecht's and Lord & Taylor, largely on the East Coast. Federated is still expected to convert many Robinsons-May stores to Macy's, likely closing some, especially in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , where both stores often anchor regional malls and shopping centers together. |
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