The Man Behind The Brand - At The Store

Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Kraft, Maytag, Hertz, Kellogg, Gerber. Nowhere to be found. How many names are more famous than Howard Johnson? Milton Bradley? Oscar Mayer? But who were these folks? Let’s take a look at the men behind the names where we shop.

Bloomingdale's
Eckerd's
Hallmark
Hudson's
Kresge's
Kroger's
Levitz
Macy's
Marshall Field
Montgomery Ward's
J.C. Penney's
Sears and Roebuck
Spiegel's
Tiffany's
Wanamaker's