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Defunct Retail => Other Defunct Retail => Topic started by: retailisking on December 10, 2016, 11:25:00 AM

Title: The Limited may shutter headquarters, close all stores
Post by: retailisking on December 10, 2016, 11:25:00 AM
Emphasis on "may," of course, but a filing with the State of Ohio makes that possibility official
http://www.retaildive.com/news/report-the-limited-may-shutter-headquarters-close-stores-permanently
Title: Re: The Limited may shutter headquarters, close all stores
Post by: retailisking on December 23, 2016, 11:07:21 AM
Liquidation is looking almost inevitable now
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/limited-stores-said-to-prepare-for-bankruptcy-by-hiring-advisers
Title: Re: The Limited may shutter headquarters, close all stores
Post by: TheFugitive on December 23, 2016, 11:31:38 AM
ex-Service Merchandise CEO Raymond Zimmerman is on their Board of Directors.

Nice to see Ray still has the magic touch!   ;D
Title: Re: The Limited may shutter headquarters, close all stores
Post by: BillyGr on December 23, 2016, 01:12:26 PM
Quote from: TheFugitive on December 23, 2016, 11:31:38 AM
ex-Service Merchandise CEO Raymond Zimmerman is on their Board of Directors.

Nice to see Ray still has the magic touch!   ;D

Seems like there are a few people like that that companies should run from - like a certain former Ames leader (and at least a couple other companies before and after that wound up in the same fate).
Title: Re: The Limited may shutter headquarters, close all stores
Post by: retailisking on December 23, 2016, 01:46:50 PM
Yeah, I don't know Joe Ettore kept getting retail CEO gigs despite his dismal track record (Kings, Jamesway, Stuarts, Ames, WiseBuys etc.)
Title: Re: The Limited may shutter headquarters, close all stores
Post by: TheFugitive on January 03, 2017, 05:23:32 PM
As bad as Joe Ettore's track record was, Peter Hollis was worse.

Ames, Zayre, Fisher Big Wheel, Jamesway.....took them all into Chap. 11 and
eventually out of business.