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Sears Roebuck
COMPANY
Founded 1886 in Minneapolis, Minnesota by Richard W. Sears and Alvah C. Roebuck. Under the hand of billionaire Eddie Lampert, K-Mart acquired Sears in 2005 and assumed its name.
Official Website: http://www.sears.com/
Industry: Retail
Ticker: NASDAQ:SHLD
Corporate headquarters: Manhattan, NY
Sales: $50.7B (2007)
Employees: 300,000 (2008)
EXECUTIVES
Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Dorrit J. Bern |
Business |
c. 1950 |
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CEO of Charming Shoppes |
Edward A. Brennan |
Business |
16-Jan-1934 |
27-Dec-2007 |
CEO of Sears Roebuck, 1984-95 |
William C. Crowley |
Business |
c. 1957 |
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CFO of Sears Roebuck |
Julian C. Day |
Business |
14-May-1952 |
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CEO of Radio Shack |
David F. Dyer |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
CEO of Tommy Hilfiger, 2003-06 |
Anastasia D. Kelly |
Attorney |
c. 1949 |
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EVP at American International Group |
Barbara A. Klein |
Business |
c. 1954 |
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CFO of CDW |
Alan J. Lacy |
Business |
19-Oct-1953 |
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CEO of Sears, 2000-05 |
Aylwin Lewis |
Business |
28-May-1954 |
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CEO of Sears |
Edward M. Liddy |
Business |
28-Jan-1946 |
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Partner, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice |
Arthur C. Martinez |
Business |
1939 |
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CEO of Sears Roebuck, 1995-2000 |
Lawrence J. Mosner |
Business |
c. 1942 |
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CEO of Deluxe Corporation, 2000-05 |
Saiyid T. Naqvi |
Business |
c. 1949 |
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President, Harley-Davidson Finance |
Alice M. Peterson |
Business |
c. 1952 |
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Syrus Global |
Philip J. Purcell |
Business |
5-Sep-1943 |
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CEO of Morgan Stanley, 1997-2005 |
Alvah C. Roebuck |
Business |
9-Jun-1864 |
18-Jun-1948 |
Sears Roebuck founder |
Julius Rosenwald |
Business |
12-Aug-1862 |
6-Jan-1932 |
Sears executive and Good Samaritan |
William L. Salter |
Business |
c. 1943 |
|
Former Sears executive |
Richard W. Sears |
Business |
7-Dec-1863 |
28-Sep-1914 |
Sears, Roebuck founder |
James D. Thornton |
Business |
c. 1949 |
|
Senior EVP at MBNA |
Thomas J. Wilson |
Business |
c. 1957 |
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CEO of Allstate |
Robert E. Wood |
Business |
13-Jun-1879 |
6-Nov-1969 |
Chairman of Sears, 1939-54 |
CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS
PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS
Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Edward A. Brennan |
Business |
16-Jan-1934 |
27-Dec-2007 |
CEO of Sears Roebuck, 1984-95 |
Jim Cantalupo |
Business |
14-Nov-1943 |
19-Apr-2004 |
CEO of McDonald's, 2002-04 |
Donald J. Carty |
Business |
23-Jun-1946 |
|
CEO of American Airlines, 1998-2003 |
Alston D. Correll |
Business |
28-Apr-1941 |
|
CEO of Georgia-Pacific, 1993-2005 |
Julian C. Day |
Business |
14-May-1952 |
|
CEO of Radio Shack |
W. James Farrell |
Business |
c. 1943 |
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CEO of Illinois Tool Works, 1995-2005 |
Alan J. Lacy |
Business |
19-Oct-1953 |
|
CEO of Sears, 2000-05 |
Arthur C. Martinez |
Business |
1939 |
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CEO of Sears Roebuck, 1995-2000 |
Michael A. Miles |
Business |
c. 1940 |
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CEO of Philip Morris, 1991-94 |
Richard C. Notebaert |
Business |
1947 |
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CEO of Qwest, 2002-07 |
Hugh B. Price |
Activist |
1941 |
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President of the Urban League, 1994-2003 |
Julius Rosenwald |
Business |
12-Aug-1862 |
6-Jan-1932 |
Sears executive and Good Samaritan |
Donald Rumsfeld |
Government |
9-Jul-1932 |
|
US Secretary of Defense, 1975-77 and 2001-06 |
Patrick G. Ryan |
Business |
15-May-1937 |
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CEO of Aon, 1982-2005 |
Dorothy A. Terrell |
Business |
12-Jun-1945 |
|
VP at NMS Communications, 1998-2002 |
Robert E. Wood |
Business |
13-Jun-1879 |
6-Nov-1969 |
Chairman of Sears, 1939-54 |
Raul Yzaguirre |
Activist |
22-Jul-1939 |
|
National Council of La Raza |
EMPLOYMENT
EXTRANEOUS
Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Henry Dreyfuss |
Inventor |
2-Mar-1904 |
5-Oct-1972 |
Product designer, human factors engineer |
C. Robert Kidder |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Borden Chemical, 1995-2002 |
Hersh Kozlov |
Attorney |
15-Nov-1947 |
|
Wolf Block Schorr & Solis-Cohen |
CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS
Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Lauren Hutton |
Model |
17-Nov-1944 |
|
Paper Lion and American Gigolo |
Arnold Palmer |
Golf |
10-Sep-1929 |
|
Won 61 PGA tournaments |
Ty Pennington |
TV Personality |
19-Oct-1965 |
|
Carpenter on Trading Spaces |
Stefanie Powers |
Actor |
2-Nov-1942 |
|
Hart to Hart |
Bob Vila |
TV Personality |
20-Jun-1946 |
|
Former host of This Old House |
Billy Dee Williams |
Actor |
6-Apr-1937 |
|
Lando Calrissian, Colt-45 malt liquor pitchman |
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