Stern's
Department store chain in the northeast U.S. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the department store. For other uses, see Sterns and Stern (disambiguation).
Stern's (originally Stern Brothers) was a regional department store chain serving the U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The chain was in business for more than 130 years.
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Company type | Department store |
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Industry | Retail |
Predecessor | Gertz (1918–1982) |
Founded | 1867 (157 years ago) (1867) (as Stern Brothers Department Store) |
Defunct | 2001 (23 years ago) (2001) |
Fate | Most stores folded into Macy's Other stores converted to Bloomingdale's or were liquidated |
Successor | Macy's (2001–present) Bloomingdale's (2001–present) |
Headquarters | Paramus, New Jersey |
Products | Apparel, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, gifts and housewares. |
Parent | Allied Stores (1951–1992) Federated Department Stores, Inc. (1992–closure) |
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In 2001, Stern's parent company Federated Department Stores opted to retire the Stern's brand. Most of the stores were immediately converted to Stern's corporate sibling Macy's, with others liquidated and reopened as Bloomingdale's.[1][2]