why was the corporation named Nordstrom?
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ORIGIN: Founded as a Seattle shoe store with the help of Swedish immigrant John W. Nordstrom's profits from the Klondike gold rush. His three sons, Everett, Elmer and Lloyd, took over between 1928 and 1933. By 1959, they had the nation's largest shoe store and ran shoe departments in 13 department stores. Added apparel in 1961 with purchase of Best Apparel in Seattle.
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This kind of information is typically not public as Walmart doesn't want competitors to use the same parties that make their private brands.\n\nBut I'm sure that in most cases, it's the same companies that make the national brands. It's a pretty common practice, Kellogg's does this with cereals. But because these are processed food items, they can't really go overseas to obtain them like they would hard goods.
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It's a bad idea.  Yet it makes a great point in alerting the public to a corporate structure that seems to be taking over every country it can gain access to.  Perhaps Wal-mart is owned by the government & they just want it to look like a private enterprise?  Things that make ya go hmmm!  :o)
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It's PETSMART.  It is a purposeful marketing tool that the name makes you think of two different positive connotations.
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Business today face a market that is competitive.  They need to have a strategy in place that sets their company on the path of innovation.\n\nConsumers are drawn to the company or businesses that take a personal interaction to them.  They want to be sure that they have purchased the right product at the best price.  \n\nNot only that but they want to feel needed.  Look at Nordstroms.  They have personal shoppers.  They are number one when it comes to service.  You are able to return merchandise if you are not happy with your purchases.  Usually, a good salesperson will call you up and inform you of something they think you may be interested in.  My salesperson that I bought shoes from, called me and said that he had some nice Italian loafers in, because he knew that I was looking for some.\n\nSo, if you own a business, the consumer is who you want to reach.  Without them you have nothing.  Keeping them is the number one goal.  How to do that is by personalizing and relationship building.  \n\nIt just happens to be one of the most expensive ways to get and maintain customers. \n\n What is needed by companies is to have employees that feel as strongly about providing customer service as the owners of companies do.\n\nFinding those people are like digging for diamonds.  They are indeed a rare asset for businesses.
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Wal Mart is a healthy corporation with retail roots all over the world. It has advanced, built and opened retail outlets at a dizzying rate. K Mart has gone thru bankruptcy, re-orgainzation and has had many of its pricipal suppliers leave for green pastures. K Mart was originally the Kresgee Dime store chain and was fantastic for its day. It basically beat the Woolworth chain out of busines but it has suffered dramatically in recent years. \nWal Mart is the best place to shop in American, for now.
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I guess honesty...This company helps reward consumers for their fealty. Loyalty Management Group Canada (which does business as The Loyalty Group) operates customer loyalty programs to promote retail and service throughout Canada
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Iv'e never understood it myself..never been into that name brand stuff could care less what name it has..but what i noticed when i went to school is once a cool kid started wearing a name brand everyone wanted to follow to be cool themselves...it just makes no sense..who cares what name is on it...im happy with my walmart clothing..its just so much cheaper...
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Because they make products that so many people use.  They constantly improve their products.  They are an international corporation.  Too many reason, but the main one is Bill Gates is a brilliant businessman.
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don't think so...\n\nThe merger in 1939 of Shibaura Seisakusho and Tokyo Denki created a new company called Tokyo Shibaura Denki. It was soon nicknamed Toshiba, but it wasn't until 1984 that the company was officially renamed Toshiba Corporation.\n\n\neven with your new info about your friend's name, you need to realize that "toshiba" has been around since the 40's as a nickname for "toyko shiba".....like i said my original post - it was *formalized* in '84...
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Couldn't find any modern references to this company past the 1970's.  They probably went broke or merged with another company. \n\nOne rather interesting reference I did find was that this is the company that invented the Smiley Face! Check out the info on this web site...
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When a company acquires another they get all the brands and trademarks as well.  Texaco was bought out by Chevron, for example, but they still run the Texaco havoline car in Nascar because it has brand loyaty.  Also, sometimes it takes a while to complete an acquistion and merge cultures and compaines.
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Federated Department Stores is one of America’s leading upscale department retail\nstore. The company operates its retail outlets under its two leading brands, namely\nMacy’s and Bloomingdale’s, thereby endowing it with superior brand recognition and\nhigh customer loyalty. However, a slowdown in the US consumer spending is liable to\nnegatively impact its revenues.\n\nStrengths\nLeading brand names\nFederated’s premier chains owns and operates two of the most revered brand names\nin the US, Bloomingdale’s and Macy’s. These premier brands have been in operation\nfor more than 150 years and are highly recognized names in the department store\nindustry. Bloomingdale’s and Macy’s operate in the niche upscale branded market,\nand provide a range of branded apparel, accessories and consumer good products.\nFederated’s superior brand name allows it to capitalize on the brand conscious\nsegment it caters to. The company’s leading brand names thereby endow it with\nsuperior brand recognition and high customer loyalty.\nGood geographical network\nFederated is one of America’s largest upscale department store retailers. As of\nJanuary 2005, the company and its subsidiaries operated 394 department stores and\n65 furniture galleries and other specialty stores. Federated stores are well spread\naround the US, with stores in Puerto Rico, Guam and 34 US states. The company operates 152 stores on the US west coast, 104 stores in the southeast US, 90 stores\nin the northeast US, 48 stores in the Midwest US and the remaining 65 stores spread\nin other areas of the US and its territories. Federated stores good geographical\ncoverage allows it to capitalize on its superior brand image and provides it with a large\nand diversified consumer base.\nStrong profit margins\nThe company has significantly higher operating and net profit margins than the\nindustry average and its closest competitors. Federated reported gross margin of\n40.52 and operating margin of 8.96 in fiscal 2004, as compared to an industry\naverage of 26.74 and 6.55, respectively. During fiscal year 2004, Federated’s\ncompetitor Dillard’s reported a gross margin of 33.35 (vs industry average of 26.74)\nand an operating margins of 2.36 (vs industry average of 6.55). Additionally, Saks\nreported a gross margin of 38.02 (vs industry average of 26.74) and an operating\nmargin of 0.12 (vs industry average of 6.55). This reflects the company’s effective cost\nmanagement strategy.
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that is what www.wikipedia.com is for.\n\nEnron Corporation was an energy company based in Houston, Texas. Prior to its bankruptcy in late 2001, Enron employed around 21,000 people and was one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, and communications companies, with claimed revenues of $101 billion in 2000. Fortune magazine named Enron "America's Most Innovative Company" for six consecutive years. It became most famous at the end of 2001 when it was revealed that it was sustained mostly by institutionalized, systematic, and well-planned accounting fraud. Its European operations filed for bankruptcy on November 30, 2001, and it sought Chapter 11 protection in the U.S. two days later, on December 2. It still exists, operating a handful of key assets, and making preparations for the sale or spin off of remaining businesses. Enron emerged from bankruptcy in November of 2004 after one of the biggest and most complex cases in US history. It has since entered the zeitgeist as a symbol of willful corporate fraud and corruption.\n\nGrowth\nEnron, founded in 1930 as Northern Natural Gas Company, was a consortium of Northern American Power and Light Company, Lone Star Gas Company, and United Lights and Railways Corporation. The consortium ownership was gradually dissolved between 1941 and 1947 through a public stock offering. In 1979, Northern Natural Gas was restructured under the ownership of a new holding company, InterNorth Inc., which replaced Northern Natural Gas on the New York Stock Exchange.\n\nIn 1985, InterNorth acquired competitor Houston Natural Gas Company in a transaction engineered by HNG CEO Kenneth Lay. Although InterNorth was the purchaser, Lay emerged as CEO and promptly renamed InterNorth as Enron Corporation, with headquarters in Houston rather than InterNorth/Northern Natural Gas's base in Omaha. Initially, the company was to be named Enteron, chosen for the positive connotations of "enter" and "on", but when it was pointed out that the term meant "intestine", it was quickly shortened.\n\nEnron was originally involved in the transmission and distribution of electricity and gas throughout the United States and the development, construction, and operation of power plants, pipelines, and other infrastructure worldwide. In 1998 it moved into the water sector, creating the Azurix Corporation, which it part-floated on the NYSE in June 1999. Azurix failed to break into the water utility market, with its only major concession, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a large-scale money loser. In April 2001 Enron announced its intention to break up Azurix and sell its assets.\n\nEnron grew wealthy, it claimed, through its pioneering marketing and promotion of power and communications bandwidth commodities and related derivatives as tradable financial instruments, including exotic items such as weather derivatives. As a result, Enron was named "America's Most Innovative Company" by Fortune magazine for six consecutive years, from 1996 to 2001. It was on the Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work for in America" list in 2000, and was legendary even among the elite workers of the financial world for the opulence of its offices. However, as was later discovered, many of these recorded profits were inflated or even wholly fraudulent and totally nonexistent, by the use of sophisticated and arcane financial transactions between Enron and related companies formed to take unprofitable entities off the company's books.\n\nProducts\nEnron traded more than 800 different products including the following.\n\nAdvertising Risk Management \nBandwidth* \nBroadband Services \nBuilding Services \nCredit Risk Management* \nCrude Oil & Products* \nElectricity / Power \nEmission Allowances* \nEnergy Outsourcing \nEnergy Asset Management \nEnron Intelligent Network \nFacility Management \nForest Products* \nFreight \nMedia Risk Management \nMetals* (also see Steel) \n
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This should answer your question, most people think that its an American founded company.\n\nAdidas is a German sports apparel manufacturer, part of the Adidas-Salomon corporation. Adidas was named after its founder, Adolf (Adi) Dassler, who started producing shoes in the 1920s in Herzogenaurach near Nuremberg with the help of his brother Rudolf Dassler. It registered as Adidas AG on 18 August 1949. The company's clothing and shoe designs typically include three parallel stripes of the same color, and the same motif is incorporated into Adidas' official logos.\n\nRudolf Dassler, Adi's brother, founded a rival company, PUMA.
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It was a combination of two things in this order:\n1) They had an amazing marketing strategy: word of mouth and their "don't do evil" crap. They made people love them. What people don't realize is that are just another money hungry corporation.\n2) They concentrated on a few specific products and made them exceptional. Otherwise except for gmail and google search & maps if you take away all those products they got by buying out companies (google earth, picasa, groups, blogger etc) every other "cool" google produced product has been only O.K.\n3 bonus) They were not part of the "dot com"s.
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Because those people own stock in hat/glove companies.