Gimbel Brothers opened its first store in Vincennes, Indiana, in 1842. In 1887, the company moved its operations to the Gimbel Brothers Department Store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The company expanded to a peak of 53 stores by 1965, and closed in 1987 with 35 stores in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Connecticut.
About Gimbels in brief
Gimbel Brothers opened its first store in Vincennes, Indiana, in 1842. In 1887, the company moved its operations to the Gimbel Brothers Department Store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The company expanded to a peak of 53 stores by 1965, and closed in 1987 with 35 stores in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Connecticut. By 1930, Gimbels had seven flagship stores throughout the country and sales of USD 123 million across 20 stores. By 1953, sales had risen to USD 300 million. In 1962, Gimbel acquired Milwaukee competitor Schuster’s, and in that region operated stores from both chains for a while as GIMBELS SCHUSTER’S. The Gimbel Thanksgiving Day Parade, started in 1920 in Philadelphia, is now held every year in New York City. The store’s slogan was: \”the customer pays for fancy frills, not the aesthetics. By offering a wide range of merchandise, Gimmels reflected the ideals held by the middle class of staying up to date with technologies and merchandise at an affordable price. With multiple floors in its flagship stores, each floor offered a wide variety of merchandise.
With a salon, a music center, and a theater, the store also contained a Gimbel Auditorium, Television, and Auditorium Headquarters, which was also used as the company’s headquarters. The Gimmel Auditorium was also the headquarters of the GIMMEL Radio Network, which aired on radio stations in the U.S. and Canada. GIMmEL was founded by a young Bavarian Jewish immigrant, Adam Gimbel, who opened a general store in Vincennes in 1842, and moved to Milwaukee in 1887. In 1894, G Gimbel acquired the Granville Haines store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in 1910, opened another branch in New York City. In 1925, Gimpels entered the Pittsburgh market with the purchase of Kaufmann & Baer’s, acquiring WCAE in the deal. In the 1930s, Gimbel increased the number of more upscale Saks Fifth Avenue stores in Chicago, Boston and San Francisco, opening branches in Chicago and Boston. By 1965, Gim Bel Brothers Inc. consisted of 22 Gimels, 27 Saks 5th Avenue stores, and four Saks 34th St. stores.
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