The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ: BONT) is a regional department store company based in York, Pennsylvania, chiefly operating 280 department stores and 10 furniture galleries in 23 states throughout the northern United States. Stores carrying its namesake nameplate serve the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions of the United States, extending to upstate New York and throughout Pennsylvania. Other chains operated by Bon-Ton include Bergner's, Bost...
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The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ: BONT) is a regional department store company based in York, Pennsylvania, chiefly operating 280 department stores and 10 furniture galleries in 23 states throughout the northern United States. Stores carrying its namesake nameplate serve the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions of the United States, extending to upstate New York and throughout Pennsylvania. Other chains operated by Bon-Ton include Bergner's, Boston Store, Carson Pirie Scott, Elder-Beerman, Herberger's, Parisian, and Younkers. 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...
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