Gottschalks
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| Type of Company | Department store |
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| Founded | 1904 |
| Headquarters | Fresno, California |
| Industry | Retail |
| Products | Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares |
| Website | http://www.gottschalks.com/ |
Gottschalks NYSE: GOT is a middle-tier American department store. Gottschalks has 63 stores and 10 specialty stores in six western states (California, Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Nevada.) It is the largest independently-owned department store in the United States.
[edit] History
Gottschalks was founded by German Jewish immigrant Emil Gottschalk in 1904 in Fresno, California.
The company started trading stocks in 1986. In 1995 the company went online. The company grew in Southern California with the 1998 acquisition of Harris Department Stores. In 2000 the Seattle based department store Lamonts was acquired.
