store erie pennsylvania . the boston store inc. type subsidiary industry retail founded 1897 headquarters milwaukee wisconsin number of locations 14 2011 1 products clothing footwear bedding furniture jewelry beauty products housewares parent the bon ton website http www.bostonstore.com boston store is an upscale department store owned by the bon ton stores . it was founded in 1897 in milwaukee wisconsin . contents 1 history 1.1 1920s and 1930s 1.2 federated and maus freres s.a. 1.3 acquisitions 1.4 bankruptcy and merger with proffitt s 1.5 sale to the bon ton 2 footnotes history edit 1920s and 1930s edit throughout the 1920s and 1930s the boston store was run by philip irving stone . his nephew irving stone worked as a manager and in 1927 8 dated broadway ingenue and later mgm movie star jeanette macdonald . 2 in december 1933 600 of the store s 1000 employees walked out in a famous white collar union strike . 3 federated and maus freres s.a. edit julian simon s control of boston store was sold to federated department stores in 1948 and under federated branch stores were opened in several wisconsin cities including oshkosh sheboygan and manitowoc . ownership later passed to the bergner s chain of peoria illinois in 1985 itself owned by switzerland based maus fr res s.a. a retail conglomerate controlled by the maus and nordmann families ; soon afterward bergner s relocated its headquarters to milwaukee . acquisitions edit as cross town rival gimbels was being dismantled in 1986 boston store acquired three gimbel s branches at southgate mall milwaukee east towne mall madison and mayfair mall wauwatosa . in 1989 p.a. bergner bought chicago s carson pirie scott for over 450 million . carson s itself had just bought minneapolis based donaldson s in november 1987 . with this bergner s was a major midwestern presence with stores in five states wisconsin illinois minnesota indiana and iowa operating under the bergner s carson pirie scott and boston store names . bankruptcy and merger with proffitt s edit in 1991 bergner s filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy with maus freres s.a. losing control of the company in a bitter fight . in 1993 the organization emerged from bankruptcy court under the name carson pirie scott & co trading under the symbol cps . eventually proffitt s inc. now saks incorporated bought carson pirie scott in 1998 and its purchase increased the northern presence of the saks incorporated company . sale to the bon ton edit in july 2005 saks completed the sale of its southern department store group consisting of proffitt s and mcrae s to charlotte north carolina based belk inc. on october 31 2005 saks announced that it was selling boston store and its other northern department store group stores carson pirie scott bergner s younkers and herberger s to bon ton stores in a 1.1 billion deal . the transaction was completed on march 6 2006 . 4 younkers stores in the footprint of the milwaukee television market were rebranded to boston store simplifying the company s ads to feature one bon ton banner per market . footnotes edit the bon ton stores inc. 2011 annual report jeanette macdonald the irving stone letters http newdeal.feri.org texts 24.htm 1 v t e the bon ton and predecessors 2000 present elder beerman 2003 bergner s 2005 boston store 2005 carson s 2005 herberger s 2005 younkers 2005 parisian 2006 2013 1990 1999 j.w. rhodes 1991 watt & shand 1992 1995 am & a s 1994 chappell s 1994 hess s 1994 1980 1989 maxwell s f. 1980s 1989 fowler s 1980s pomeroy s 1987 1948 1979 eyerly s 1948 1989 mcmeen s 1957 1969 stock symbol nasdaq bont website bonton.com partial acquisition ; f. founded retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title boston store & oldid 743559128 categories department stores of the united statescompanies established in 1897companies based in milwaukee1897 establishments in wisconsin navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 05 36 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view