Kohl's Corporation (NYSE: KSS) is an American department store chain headquartered in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. The Company currently operates 957 stores in 47 states. Kohl's mission, as stated in store and online, is to be the leading value-oriented, family-focused, specialty department store. Based on 2007 revenue, Kohl's was the 23rd-largest retailer in the United States.^[1] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 133 pixelsFull resolution (3776 × 629 pixel, file size: 88 KB, MIME type: image/png) Logo of Kohls Department Stores for use as illustration in Wikipedia, now with transparent background. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the Big Board, is a New York City-based stock exchange. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Drawing of a self-service store. ... A website (alternatively, web site or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet. ... The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the Big Board, is a New York City-based stock exchange. ... The interior of a typical Macy*s department store. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other places with the same name, see Milwaukee (disambiguation). ... A drawing of a self-service store Retailing consists of the sale of goods/merchandise for personal or household consumption either from a fixed location such as a department store or kiosk, or away from a fixed location and related subordinated services (Definition of the WTO (last page). ...

The company entered the S&P 500 list in 1998 and is also listed in the Fortune 500 (#152 in 2007). The S&P 500 is an index containing the stocks of 500 Large-Cap corporations, most of which are American. ... The Fortune 500 is a ranking of the top 500 United States corporations as measured by gross revenue. ...

History

Beginnings

Max Kohl, who had previously operated traditional grocery stores, built his first Kohl's supermarket in 1946, first in what would become a southeastern Wisconsin chain known as Kohl's Food Stores.^[2] In 1962, he started his first department store, also called Kohl's Department Store in Brookfield, Wisconsin. He positioned Kohl’s between the higher-end department stores and the discounters, selling everything from candy to engine oil to sporting equipment. Packaged food aisles in a Fred Meyer store in Portland, Oregon A supermarket is a departmentalized self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Kohls Corporation (NYSE: KSS) is an American department store chain headquartered in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. ...

In 1972 the British-American Tobacco Company's (parent of U.S. subsidiary Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co.) U.S. retail division, BATUS Inc., bought a controlling interest in Kohl's Corp., which at the time operated 50 grocery stores, six department stores, three drug stores and three liquor stores.^[3] The Kohl family, led by Allen and Herb Kohl, stayed on to manage the company. The family left the management in 1979, and Herb Kohl went on to become a United States Senator and owner of the Milwaukee Bucks. This firm expanded Kohl's presence from 10 to 39 stores in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. The grocery stores were eventually sold to A&P in 1983, operating under the name Kohl's II, but the last of them were later closed in 2003. British American Tobacco Plc (LSE: BATS, AMEX: BTI, KLSE: BAT) is the second largest listed tobacco company in the world. ... Brown & Williamson is an American tobacco company, which produces cigarette brands. ... BATUS Inc. ... Herbert H. Kohl (born February 7, 1935) is an American politician and the senior senator from the state of Wisconsin. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... For other uses, see Indiana (disambiguation). ... For the short story by John Updike, see A&P (story). ...

Expansion

A group of investors, including the senior management, purchased the company in 1986, and the company added 27 more stores in the next two years. In 1988, the chain acquired 26 locations from Chicago-based MainStreet, gaining several stores in Chicago's suburbs, Minneapolis, Minnesota and parts of Michigan, the first of which opened its doors on January 16, 1989 in Roseville, Michigan. In 1992, the company went public and a period of expansion began. Kohl's entered mid-Atlantic markets in 1997 (opening in many former locations of Clover, an offshoot of the Strawbridge's corporation brand department stores in the Philadelphia region); Texas, Missouri and the North East in 1999; Georgia and the Southeast in 2001; New England in 2002; California and the Southwest in 2003; and the Northwest in 2006. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Minneapolis redirects here. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Strawbridges (formerly Strawbridge & Clothier) was a department store found in the northeastern United States with stores in Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. ... For other uses, see Philadelphia (disambiguation) and Philly. ... For other uses, see Texas (disambiguation). ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Northeast is the ordinal direction halfway between north and east. ... This article is about the region in the United States of America. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Regional definitions vary from source to source. ...

The chain's expansion has mainly focused on the middle of the country; however, they recently expanded into the Rochester and Buffalo markets in Western New York. In April 2005, the company opened stores in Florida and other Southern states. Western New York refers to the westernmost region of New York State. ...

Kohl's design office opened in January 2007, located in the heart of New York's Garment District. The 23,000-square-foot (2,100 m²) facility, located at 1359 Broadway, is the company's first product-design presence in the nation's fashion capital.

Store Renovations

As of January, 2008. Kohl's is currently remodeling 29 stores, making them cleaner and more organized. This includes new registers and counters, cleaner dressing rooms, wood floors, expanded walkways, new carpet, newly painted walls, new shoe shelves, home departments and more stock availability. Kohl's hopes to have those 29 stores finished by May. The company plans to increase store renovations in 2008; so far, 90 stores have already been renovated to the new prototype.

Store design

The exterior of a typical Kohl's department store.

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Kohl’s operates differently from traditional department stores. The most noticeable distinction between Kohl's and traditional department stores is that all Kohl's stores have centralized checkout aisles. This has led many observers to consider Kohl's a hybrid of a department store and a mass merchandiser.

Kohl's also pioneered the use of a "racetrack" aisle that circles the entire store, a technique borrowed from discount stores but rarely used in department stores.[2]

Merchandise

Kohl's stores feature nationally recognized brand-name merchandise, exclusive labels, and private-branded goods, virtually the same merchandise mix as traditional department stores. The stores sell a variety of goods, such as apparel, shoes, and accessories for women, children and men, and home products such as small electronics, Kitchen electrics, Electric shavers, toothbrushes, vacuums & floor care, bedding, toys, and luggage. Kohl's exclusive lines include Candie's, Chaps by Ralph Lauren for Men, Women and Children, Simply Vera Vera Wang, Elle Contemporary Collection, Casa Cristina by award-winning TV personality Cristina Saralegui, American Beauty, Tony Hawk Apparel, daisy Fuentes, Axcess, Bobby Flay and Food Network-branded housewares and cookware. Kohl's Private brands include apt. 9, SONOMA life+style, Croft & Barrow, Jumping Beans, Urban Pipeline, Moments, So... and Tek Gear. Some of Kohl's National brands include Nike, Haggar, Dockers, Gloria Vanderbilt, Columbia Sporstwear, Oshkosh, Carter's, Reebok, Adidas, Champion, Jockey, Goldtoe, Lee, l.e.i. and Levis. Girls wearing formal attire for dancing, an example of one of the many modern forms of clothing. ... shoe for right foot A shoe is a piece of footwear for humans, less than a boot and more than a slipper. ... Surface mount electronic components Electronics is the study of the flow of charge through various materials and devices such as semiconductors, resistors, inductors, capacitors, nano-structures and vacuum tubes. ... The toothbrush is a brush used to clean teeth. ... Vacuums (AKA Stealing Bess) is comedy film released in 2002. ... Bedding refers to the materials laid above the mattress of a bed for warmth. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Luggage. ... Candies is a brand of shoes since 1981, purchased by Iconix Brand Group in 1993. ... For the company, see Polo Ralph Lauren. ... Vera Wang (Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; born June 27, 1949) is an American fashion designer based in New York, NY, USA. She is known for her wedding gown collection, among other specialties. ... Cristina Saralegui (born January 29, 1948 in Havana, Cuba) is a journalist, talk show host and actress. ... American Beauty can refer to: A variety of rose: American Beauty rose American Beauty, a film starring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Mena Suvari, and Thora Birch American Beauty, an album by the Grateful Dead American Beauty Rag, a classic ragtime composition by Joseph Lamb, published in 1913. ... This article is about the American skateboarder. ... Food Network is an American cable network that airs many specials and recurring (episodic) shows about food. ...

Online shopping

The company has had a World Wide Web presence since 1998 [3] and offered online shopping since the year 2000. The World Wide Web and WWW redirect here. ...

The domain kohls.com attracted at least 58 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com survey.

References

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External links

• Kohl's official website
• Kohl's corporate website
• Early history of Kohl's from Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article