The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ: BONT) is a regional department store company based
in York, Pennsylvania, chiefly operating 268 department stores in 23 states
throughout the northern United States under its namesake nameplate, as well as
those of Elder-Beerman, Carson Pirie Scott, Younkers, Herberger's, Bergner's,
Boston Store and Parisian. Additionally, eight furniture stores (with a ninth under
construction) are operated by the corporation in select markets.
The
Bon-Ton was started in 1898, when Max Grumbacher and his father, Samuel,
opened S. Grumbacher & Son, a one-room millinery and dry goods store on Market
Street in York, Pennsylvania. From the beginning, according to company material,
the Grumbachers operated their business "with a close attention to detail and
a conviction that business success would come to those who offered customers quality
merchandise at a fair price with careful attention to their individual needs
and wants." |
