S. S. Kresge Company | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-06

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kmart


00:01:04 1 History
00:01:12 1.1 Early years
00:03:35 1.2 1960s–1970s
00:05:08 1.3 1980s
00:06:42 1.4 Blue Light Special
00:07:31 1.5 1990–2001: New image
00:15:09 1.6 2002–2009: Collapse and merger with Sears
00:22:32 1.7 2010–2018: Decline
00:31:17 1.8 2018&#8211;present: Second bankruptcy and continuing decline
00:33:03 2 Corporate affairs
00:33:12 2.1 Headquarters
00:34:09 2.2 Subsidiaries
00:34:18 2.2.1 Current
00:36:22 2.2.2 Former
00:48:26 2.3 Philanthropy
00:50:44 2.4 Environmental record
00:52:32 2.5 Animal welfare concerns
00:53:12 2.6 Racing sponsorships
00:54:23 3 International
00:54:32 3.1 Australia and New Zealand
00:55:14 3.2 Canada
00:56:11 3.2.1 Slogans
00:56:31 3.3 Caribbean
00:57:31 3.4 Europe
00:58:32 3.5 Mexico
00:59:20 3.6 Singapore
00:59:47 4 Management
01:02:13 5 See also



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Kmart Corporation ( KAY-mart, doing business as Kmart and stylized as kmart) is an American big box department store chain headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States.
The company was incorporated in 1899 as S. S. Kresge Corporation and renamed to Kmart Corporation in 1977. The first store with the Kmart name opened in 1962. At its peak in 1994, Kmart operated 2,323 discount stores and Super Kmart Center locations in the United States. After declaring bankruptcy in 2002 and emerging the following year, the chain's management purchased Sears for $11 billion in 2004, forming a new corporation under the name Sears Holdings Corporation.Sears Holdings, the parent company of Kmart, declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 15, 2018.