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- 20th Century
- 21st Century
- Corporate Identity
- Locations Listed on The National Register of Historic Places
Background and early history: 1902–1960
James Cash Penney was born in Hamilton, Missouri. After graduating from high school, Penney worked for a local retailer. He relocated to Colorado at the advice of a doctor, hoping that a better climate would improve his health. In 1898, Penney went to work for Thomas Callahan and Guy Johnson, who owned dry goods stores called Golden Rule stores in Colorado and Wyoming. In 1899, Callahan sent Penney to Evanston, Wyoming, to work with Johnson in another Golden Rule store. Callahan and Johnson a...
Full-line department store
The company dedicated its first full-line shopping-center department store in 1961. This store was located at Black Horse Pike Center in Audubon, New Jersey. The second full-line shopping center store was dedicated, at King of Prussia Plazain King of Prussia, Pennsylvania in late 1962. Those stores expanded the lines of merchandise and services that an average J. C. Penney carried to include appliances, sporting goods, tools, garden\lawn merchandise, restaurants, beauty salons, portrait studi...
Expansion beyond the contiguous US
In the 1960s, JCPenney expanded to include Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Stores were opened in Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska in 1962, followed by Honolulu, Hawaii in 1966, and Puerto Rico in 1968. The Penney Building in Anchorage partially collapsed and was damaged beyond repair in the 1964 Alaska earthquake. The company rebuilt the store as a shorter building on a larger footprint and followed up by building Anchorage's first public parking garage, which opened in 1968. The Honolulu sto...
2000s
In early 2001, J. C. Penney closed 44 under-performing stores. In 2001, J. C. Penney sold its direct-marketing insurance unit to Dutch insurer Aegon for $1.3 billion (equivalent to $2.15 billion in 2024) in cash to help refocus the company on retail. In 2003, the company opened three stores in strip centers in Texas, Minnesota and Indiana. The new one-level, 94,000 sq ft (8,700 m2) format stores focus on convenience with wider aisles and centralized checkouts. In 2004, the company added 14 mo...
2010–2014
In 2010, Vornado Realty Trusttook a 9.9 percent stake in Penney; it sold off its 9.9-million-share interest in the company for $13.00 per share in 2013. On January 24, 2011, J. C. Penney closed down its catalog business, which had been operating since 1963. With this, the 19 catalog outlet stores also closed down.An additional seven stores, two call center facilities, and one customer decorating facility would also be closed. On February 12, 2011, The New York Times exposed the company's use...
2015–2019
In January 2015, it was announced that J. C. Penney would close 39 under-performing stores nationwide and lay off 2,250 employees. That same year, the company announced that it was liquidating its The Foundry Big & Tall Supply Co. chain of standalone clothing stores. In January 2016, J. C. Penney announced plans to relaunch its business of selling major appliances to target a wave of millennials who are buying first-time homes. In February, J. C. Penney opened a support center in Bangalore, I...
In June 2008, an ad called "Speed Dressing" emerged ending with the J. C. Penney logo and slogan "Every Day Matters". The ad won a prize at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. The ad was criticized for seeming to promote teen sex. J. C. Penney denied that the ad was theirs and their advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi reported tha...
JCPenney locations that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP): 1. J. C. Penney-Chicago Store (Tucson, Arizona) 2. J. C. Penney Company Building (Shoshone, Idaho) 3. J. C. Penney Co. Warehouse Building (St. Louis, Missouri) 4. J. C. Penney Building (Newberg, Oregon) 5. J. C. Penney Historic District, Kemmerer, Wyoming, a Nati...
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