Industry | Department store |
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Founded | 1930s |
Founder | B. E. Puckett |
Defunct | 1992 |
Fate | Merged with Federated Department Stores |
Area served | United States |
Allied Stores was a department store chain in the United States. It was founded in the 1930s as part of a general consolidation in the retail sector by B. E. Puckett. See also Associated Dry Goods. It was the successor to Hahn's Department Stores, a holding company founded in 1928.
In 1981, Allied Stores acquired the 24-year-old retail conglomerate Garfinckel, Brooks Brothers, Miller & Rhoads, Inc. for $228 million (~$647 million in 2023). With that transaction they acquired 178 department stores and 48 specialty shops in 28 states.[1]
In 1986, the chain was acquired by Campeau Corporation under Canadian entrepreneur Robert Campeau.[2] In April 1988, Campeau merged with Federated Department Stores[3] and both chains were consolidated in January 1990 after Chapter 11 bankruptcy though they remained two distinct companies.[4] Federated fully absorbed Allied when emerging from bankruptcy in February 1992.[5]