Today, the retailer operates more than stores and is owned by its founding family. Bealls Inc. CEO and Executive Chairman Matt Beall said in a press release that the distribution center it acquired from Stage Stores will be the retailer's first outside of Florida and will help Bealls expand its Burke's Outlet chain throughout the U. We believe that this will reduce confusion and create opportunities for us as we look to further grow our store and e-commerce presence. The company hasn't announced yet what if anything it plans to do with those assets.
The sale comes as Stage Stores faces constrained liquidity amid the continuing COVID crisis and its ongoing liquidation, which lawyers for the bankrupt retailer said at a hearing earlier in October. And so the book is mostly closed on Stage Stores and its subsidiaries as the world has known them.
It's a dizzying, disastrous turn for a retailer that about a year ago posted strong sales growth and accelerated a plan to convert its store fleet to the off-price Gordmans banner.
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It was used initially for accounts payable. Payroll soon followed. Advertising, too, was changing with the success of the first newspaper inserts in Beall died at the age of He had worked at the original store until the final year of his life. That same year saw new beginnings when Conrad Szymanski, R.
Beall's grandson, started his career at Bealls. Bealls had 23 stores, and the number of employees passed 1, Seven new stores opened in doubling the selling square footage of the chain. Bealls also staked out two new and different directions during this period. In the process of upgrading brands from budget to what was then known as "main floor" began. Bealls Outlet began five years later, spurred by E. New talent was also part of the picture. Other landmark achievements of the eighties included the opening of the Corporate Center and DC and the introduction of the K Best Plan.
Beall, Sr. Foundation was established. As the 20th century drew to a close, the company continued its momentum with significant growth and technical innovation.
Some things did not change, however. The Governor's Award for community involvement was bestowed on Bealls in In Bealls Inc.
Customers embraced the new chain, and it experiendced explosive growth. The first store outside Florida opened when Bealls Outlet entered the Arizona market the following year. Many changes followed. Two years later the first "big store" - twice the size of previous store plans - opened in Spring Hill. By the turn of the century Bealls and Bealls Outlet together had stores and employed 5, people.
Though Bealls lost a moving force with the death of E. Beall on March 22, , that year Bealls Outlet knocked the ball out of the park when Paul Galizia discontinued traditional advertising.
In Bealls Department Stores opened its own design studio to develop Florida friendly private labels. A new tagline captured it all: "Live the Florida Lifestyle".
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