Macys.Com Re-Launches Internet Shopping Site; Federated Subsidiary Brings New Dimension to Holiday Shopping for 1998 and Beyond

Business Wire, Nov 18, 1998

Federated, with corporate offices in Cincinnati and New York, is one of the nation's leading department store retailers, with annual sales of more than $15.6 billion. Federated currently operates more than 400 department stores in 33 states, as well as two national fashion mail-order catalogs -- Macy's By Mail and Bloomingdale's By Mail. Federated's department stores operate nationally under the names of Bloomingdale's, The Bon Marche, Burdines, Goldsmith's, Lazarus, Macy's, Rich's and Stern's.

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