founded 1911 headquarters philadelphia pennsylvania u.s. number of locations 50 key people albert boscov chairman & ceo products clothing footwear bedding furniture jewelry beauty products candy household goods toys decor small appliances revenue 1.051 billion usd 2006 website www.boscovs.com boscov s is a department store with 50 locations throughout the eastern united states . 1 the current company chairman is albert boscov . history edit solomon sol boscov was of jewish descent he emigrated to reading pennsylvania in 1902 . 2 he had 1.37 in cash on arrival in the united states . 2 he worked as a traveling salesman with an initial 8 worth of merchandise . because he spoke yiddish he was able to converse with those people in berks county who spoke pennsylvania dutch . 2 solomon s fortunes changed in 1911 when he opened the first boscov s store in reading to much fanfare . 3 with growing notoriety boscov s began expanding in the pennsylvania suburbs through the 1940 s. as early as 1948 boscov s had five stores 2 200 workers and annual sales exceeding 50 million . 4 solomon boscov retired and was succeeded by his son albert albie boscov as head of the company in 1950 . 4 5 today edit in october 2011 boscov s opened a new store at the monmouth mall in eatontown new jersey in a former a & s space . this marked the first expansion for the company since the great recession . in november 2011 boscov s announced plans to open a location at the white marsh mall in white marsh maryland . the location opened on october 5 2012 . on may 15 2012 boscov s announced it would be opening a location in the woodbridge center mall in woodbridge new jersey in a former fortunoff space . 6 boscov s opened a new ohio location at the ohio valley mall in october 2013 . 7 in october 2015 boscov s opened a new hartford connecticut store at the westfield meriden mall in a former jcpenney space . 8 in fall 2016 boscov s plans to open a new central new york store in the sangertown square mall . references edit http www.boscovs.com static about boscov history.html . missing or empty title help ; external link in website help ; missing or empty url help a b c berksiana . charles schuyler castner . 1976 . page 321 berksiana . charles schuyler castner . 1976 . page 319 a b berksiana . charles schuyler castner . 1976 . page 323 about boscov s department stores . boscovs.com . retrieved 2011 01 28 . boscov s to open in woodbridge center next year . woodbridge new jersey patch . retrieved 14 september 2014 . http www.theintelligencer.net page content.detail id 581034 boscov s coming to ohio valley mall.html nav 515 courant hartford . boscov s department store to open at meriden mall adding 300 jobs . retrieved 2015 09 21 . v t e philadelphia area corporations including the delaware valley list of companies based in the philadelphia area philadelphia based fortune 500 corporations rank in the 2015 list comcast 43 aramark 207 crown holdings 318 delaware valley based fortune 500 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